The R&A has named the Local Final Qualifying (LFQ) courses for The 2008 Open at Royal Birkdale and The 2009 Open at Turnberry.
In 2008, when The Open returns to Birkdale after a break of ten years, Formby, Hillside, Southport & Ainsdale and West Lancashire will be used for Local Final Qualifying (LFQ). All four courses have been used on a number of occasions for LFQ and this year, when The Open returns to Hoylake for the first time since 1967, Formby and West Lancashire will be two of the local venues for the final stage of qualifying.
The Open makes a welcome return to Turnberry in 2009 when, Glasgow, Irvine, Kilmarnock (Barassie) and Western Gailes, the same four courses that hosted LFQ in 1994, the most recent Turnberry Open, will once again be used.
Glasgow, Irvine and Western Gailes were three of the four LFQ courses for the 2004 Troon Open.
