Royal Lytham & St Annes is famous for its quirky start and unforgiving finish. Here’s a look at the key holes spectators should watch when the AIG Women’s Open returns this summer.

1st — Par 3, 180 yards

Lytham famously opens with a par-3, throwing players straight into their short game. Five bunkers guard a green that looks flatter than it plays — Jeong Jang holed a memorable ace here during the final round in 2009.

9th — Par 3, 144 yards

Since 2001, no hole on the AIG Women’s Open rota has produced more aces than the 9th — four in total, including two in the same 2018 Championship, from Florentyna Parker and Brooke Henderson. Short but surrounded by bunkers, it punishes anything off-line.

12th — Par 3, 156 yards

Jack Nicklaus has called Lytham’s 12th one of the best short holes in golf. A pin tucked right demands a shot over two deep bunkers; miss left and four more sand traps come into play. Catriona Matthew made a Championship-winning ace here in 2009.

16th — Par 4, 333 yards

A blind tee shot opens Lytham’s tricky closing sequence — and the hole forever linked to Seve Ballesteros’ famous 1979 shot from the car park.

18th — Par 4, 394 yards

One of golf’s most iconic finishing holes, played out beneath Lytham’s red-brick clubhouse. It was here Sherri Steinhauer’s approach rolled to seven feet in 1998, sealing victory — and where Georgia Hall closed out her own major title twenty years later.

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