Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Scorecard and hole-by-hole yardages · Sefton, England

Royal Birkdale Golf Club is an 18-hole, par 72 golf course in Sefton, England. Measured to the center of each green it plays 6,937 yards — 3,262 on the front nine and 3,675 on the back.

Par 726,937 yd18 holesWaterloo Road, Sefton

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Scorecard, front to back

Tee to the front, center and back of each green. Depth = back minus front.

Hole	Par	Front	Center	Back	Depth
1	4	420	436	449	29
2	4	399	415	433	34
3	4	426	447	464	38
4	3	176	196	215	39
5	4	291	306	326	35
6	5	443	461	484	41
7	3	155	170	185	30
8	4	425	444	465	40
9	4	372	387	402	30
10	4	331	344	356	25
11	4	411	433	450	39
12	3	164	180	197	33
13	4	476	498	516	40
14	3	178	194	215	37
15	5	519	537	555	36
16	4	412	433	451	39
17	5	533	553	575	42
18	5	483	503	521	38
Out	35		3,262
In	37		3,675
Total	72		6,937

Course layout

What the numbers say about Royal Birkdale Golf Club

42 yd is the deepest green, on hole 17. The shallowest is hole 10 at 25 yd — the gap between a front pin and a back pin.
The longest hole is 17 at 553 yd; the shortest is 7 at 170 yd.
4 par 3s and 4 par 5s. Out 35 / in 37.
25 bunkers are mapped around the greens and landing areas.
Water sits across or within 25 yards of the tee-to-green line on 1 of the 18 holes.
The longest stretch is 15 through 17, 1,523 yards back to back.
Greens average 36 yd front to back, deeper than most — pin position is worth two clubs here.

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Updated 2026-10-01. Measured to the mapped green, so a number can differ from a printed card by a few yards. Course data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). How we measure · Report a wrong number