Royal Birkdale Golf Club Hole By Hole Guide: Hole 14

A guide to the fourteenth hole at Royal Birkdale ahead of the 146th Open Championship

Royal Birkdale Golf Club Hole By Hole Guide: Hole 14
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A guide to the fourteenth hole at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England ahead of the 146th Open Championship

Royal Birkdale Golf Club Hole By Hole Guide: Hole 14

Hole 14 - Par 3 - 200 yards

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The 146th Open Championship takes place at Royal Birkdale this month, here is a guide to the fourteenth hole.

Related: Royal Birkdale Golf Club Course Review

The 14th is the final par-3 on the course and one of the toughest of all the holes.

It plays 200 yards, and 184 yards to the front of the green.

Despite quite a large putting surface, the tee is sheltered from the prevailing wind which makes this tee shot extremely difficult.

Centre of the green is definitely the target.

What's more, there's four deep pot bunkers, two on either side, waiting to catch wayward shots.

A very tricky short hole where four pars for the week represents a great return.

Elliott Heath
Elliott Heath
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!

Elliott is currently playing:

Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV

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