Royal St George's Golf Club

The Royal St George's Golf Club is one of the premier golf clubs in the United Kingdom and one of the regular hosts of the British Open golf.

The club is located in the English Sandwich in Kent, and was designed in 1887 by William Laidlaw Purves and built as a competitor to the Scottish St. Andrews in a wild dunes. The royal status was awarded to the club in May 1902 King Edward VII. The sand hills of the first half are the largest on a venue of The Open Championship.

The novelist Ian Fleming used Royal St. George's under the name " Royal St. Marks " in his story Goldfinger 1959.

The Open Championship

As the first venue outside Scotland he had since 1894 been 13 times hosted the championship.