Baked Birkdale offers different Open test from 2017
SOUTHPORT, England, July 15 - When Jordan Spieth won the 2017 British Open at Royal Birkdale, he and the rest of the field spent four days battling wind, rain and tangled fescue so sodden that iron wrists were required to hack errant balls from it.
Open Championship Returns to Baked Birkdale
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