Jiyai Shin Won a British Open at Royal Liverpool. She’s Got Some Advice.

It is straightforward to overlook, given simply how completely Jiyai Shin romped to victory on the 2012 Women’s British Open, that she didn’t lead from begin to end. But her triumph at Royal Liverpool, the English membership typically identified merely as Hoylake, nonetheless stands as some of the commanding performances within the match’s historical past.

Her message to the world’s prime males’s golfers, who will contest their British Open at Royal Liverpool starting on Thursday, may be summed up in two phrases: Look out.

“Royal Liverpool has a lot of small greens, as well as small, deep bunkers,” Shin, who additionally gained the 2008 Open at Sunningdale, wrote in Korean in response to emailed questions.

“There is also wind,” warned Shin, who nonetheless performs on the L.P.G.A. of Japan Tour and tied for second at this month’s U.S. Women’s Open. “You have to be patient against the constant toil of the wind.”

The wind is probably not the one menace, not at a membership with a document of climate complications at its latest Opens. In 2006, when Tiger Woods gained, indicators warned of the chance of fires. Eight years later, earlier than Rory McIlroy’s victory, a forecast for thunderstorms led to a two-tee begin for the primary time in Open historical past. And when Shin performed there in 2012, poor climate led to the third and fourth rounds being condensed right into a single day. At the time, she mentioned Hoylake had supplied up the “worst conditions I think I’ve ever played.”

The coming days may pose issues, too.

“My worry is now what the forecast is for Saturday and Sunday, which there’s some uncertainty about which way it will go,” Martin Slumbers, the chief govt of the tournament-organizing R&A, mentioned on Wednesday. “But it’s going to be wet or it’s going to be very wet. We’ll see.”

Weather however, the course has a distinguished historical past: No membership alongside the English shore, aside from Royal North Devon, is older than Royal Liverpool, which was based in 1869 and first hosted a British Open in 1897, when the newbie Harold Hilton gained. Its males’s Open champions later included Bobby Jones and Peter Thomson.

The 151st Open, Shin predicted, “will be the beginning of another history.”

No. 1: Royal

Par 4, 459 yards

More typically than not, Royal Liverpool’s first gap will play into the breeze, and there are fairway bunkers on either side of the outlet — proper across the distances the place a lot of this week’s gamers can drive their tee pictures.

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“It is a dogleg hole that bends slightly to the left, and the width of the green is not wide, making it difficult to put the second shot on the green,” Shin mentioned. “It is advantageous to aim a bit to the right to maintain the flow for the next shot when playing this hole.”

There are three bunkers close to the inexperienced, which hardly has Britain’s smoothest placing floor. Trouble on No. 1 doesn’t essentially doom a participant, although: Shin had a triple bogey there throughout one spherical.

No. 7: Telegraph

Par 4, 481 yards

Want to make it to the golf green? Hit the tee shot at the least 250 yards into what might be a decidedly forbidding wind. Come up brief, and also you’re most likely within the gorse that may be discovered throughout Royal Liverpool. A profitable tee shot, although, can place a participant for an accommodating second shot towards the inexperienced, the place two left bunkers lurk close by.

The inexperienced has been infused with extra methods since Shin and McIlroy gained, however Shin instructed the wind was a better problem than the inexperienced.

“It was difficult to adjust the distance from the second shot to the pin due to the back wind,” she remembered. “A strong wind had the biggest impact on the first bounce.”

No. 13: Alps

Par 3, 194 yards

Few holes are extra beloved amongst Royal Liverpool’s members than No. 13. Mounds obscure the inexperienced from the tee field, suggesting that there’s not a lot of a inexperienced on the left aspect.

But that’s not true, and there may be truly extra inexperienced on the left than the fitting.

Shin counsels to not count on a lot bounce from the inexperienced, which is diagonal and runs left to proper, and she or he remembers how she “aimed a bit harder at the back of the pin than the front.”

And beware the right bunker.

“It seems like the club members know a thing or two about golf if they love this difficult hole in particular,” Shin mentioned.

No. 17: Little Eye

Par 3, 136 yards

The British Open has never been played in Wales, but the new 17th hole will bring the competition awfully close: just across Dee Estuary. The raised green awaits players after a spread of bunkers and other perils, so there is little room for error off the tee. There are not many favorable spots for a ball that rolls off the green, either, and the R&A is hoping the hole will infuse some drama as the tournament nears its end on Sunday.

Perhaps this is the year of the par-3. At Los Angeles Country Club last month, the course included five par-3 holes for the first time at a U.S. Open since 1947.

“Personally, I think par 3 makes the game more exciting,” Shin said. “I think it will be a great hole with a variety of new variables.”

No. 18: Dun

Par 5, 609 yards

Shin arrived at the 18th tee box during the final round with virtually no chance of losing. The only question, really, was whether she’d win by a double-digit margin.

“When I walked up to the hole looking at the grandstands surrounding the green,” she said, “I felt that it was my stage and that I was honored to be there.”

It stands to cause that this yr’s Open may not have such a runaway winner — the latest participant close to Shin’s 2012 mark was Woods in 2000, when he gained by eight strokes at St. Andrews — so No. 18 is perhaps a bit extra freighted. And it should assuredly be longer after the addition of a brand new tee, and it’ll even be narrower. The R&A itself is warning that the golf green can appear “just a handful of yards wide” in some spots off the tee.

The hole, the 16th for members and a place where Open players have often used long irons in the past, will veer toward the right, by an extensive and expanded out-of-bounds area, for second shots. If a player can avoid the five bunkers around the green, including the three on the left side, eagle is a possibility.

“Since the hole flows from the front to the back of the green, you can aim for the next shot without any worries even beyond the green,” Shin mentioned.

On Sunday, climate allowing, somebody will stand on that inexperienced and hoist the claret jug freshly engraved together with his title.