Hillside hosts Home Internationals
Hillside Golf Club in Southport, Lancashire, has graciously
agreed to the English Golf Union’s request to host the
Home Internationals in 2009. The annual three-day team event
between the four Home nations will be played on 26th - 28th
August 2009.
This will be the second occasion that Hillside (pictured
left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward) has been the venue for
the tournament. It played host in 1977 when England were triumphant
and it proved a happy hunting ground for the home side last
July when England won the European Men’s Team Championships
over the magnificent and testing course.
The 1977 event was one of many Home Internationals staged
in the north west. Royal Lytham and St Anne’s has hosted
five Home Internationals, Royal Liverpool and Formby two each,
and Royal Birkdale one. But the Home Internationals have not
been held in the north west since the 1993 matches at Hoylake.
England staged the 2005 Home Internationals at Royal St George’s
in Kent when Scotland were the winners while this year’s
tournament will be played in Wales at Lyle & Kenfig.
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