It is not just Tiger Woods who will have changed in the eight years since the Open Championship last visited Hoylake, the Royal Liverpool course he tamed in 2006 will be presenting quite a different challenge this time around.

The R&A has announced that Royal Liverpool Golf Club will host The Open Championship in 2014.

Eight years after Jean Van de Velde blew the Open with a closing triple-bogey seven, another Frenchman took eight on the same hole today.

Jean Van de Velde will not be returning to the scene of his British Open Championship heartbreak in two weeks’ time.

Ernie Els, golf ‘‘Big Easy’’, won his first Open title the hard way at Muirfield tonight.