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Co-hosts Kathy Bissell and Gary Van Sickle talk with George Perto of The Golf Heritage Society and Dr. Blyth Bell one of the historians from the Club Room at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. Petro shows more from his collection including The Open Championship gold medal from 1947, which belonged to Bobby Locke, the replacement medal which was used for champions after the famous Championship Belt was retired due to Young Tom Morris' three victories, as well as a silver bowl that once belonged to Harry Vardon and a medal from the French Open golf tournament. Dr. Bell talks about important amateurs who won The Open Championship including John Ball who was the first amateur and first Englishman to win the tournament; Harold Hilton, an amateur who lived near Hoylake where the club is located and who won his second Open Championship at Royal Liverpool in 1897; and Bobby Jones, who won The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool in 1930, the year of Jones' Grand Slam. The Open Championship was the second leg of Jones' Slam.