introduce commercial flights to nearby Hawarden Airport in North Wales, but these plans were dropped in 2014. Sports Football Tranmere Rovers Football Club is the Wirral's only professional football club and play at Prenton Park, Birkenhead. They play in League Two of The Football League. Cammell Laird 1907 F.C. are a non-league football club on the Wirral and play in the North West Counties League at North West Construction Stadium formerly Kirklands, Rock Ferry. Several Football League teams have played at New Brighton including the defunct New Brighton Tower F.C. and New Brighton A.F.C., who most recently played in the West Cheshire League. Golf The Open Championship was played at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake in 1897, 1902, 1907, 1913, 1924, 1930, 1936, 1947, 1956, 1967, 2006 and 2014. The Open is due to return to the Royal Liverpool for the 13th time in 2023. The Women's British Open was played at Royal Liverpool in 2012. Rugby Caldy RFC play at Paton Field, Thurstaston. They are a rugby union club who play in England's second tier, the RFU Championship. Wirral Warriors play at the Memorial Ground in Clatterbridge. They are members of the Rugby League Conference. Birkenhead Park FC play at the Upper Park in Birkenhead Park and compete in the fifth tier of rugby union, National League 3 North. Wirral Rugby Club founded 1936 by former pupils of Wirral Grammar School for Boys and play rugby union at Memorial Ground near Clatterbridge. Anselmians RUFC formed 1947 by former pupils of St Anselm's College. They play rugby union at Eastham. Hoylake RUFC Port Sunlight RFC formed in 1908 by employees of the Lever Brothers company Oldershaw RUFC New Brighton RUFC Wallasey RUFC Watersports Hoylake, in north west Wirral is one of the premier European land sailing (sand yachting) sites, and was host to the week-long European Championships in September 2007 and again in 2011. West Kirby, in north west Wirral has a marine lake for windsurfing, sailing and sea kayaking and hosts the British Open Team Racing Championship (Wilson Trophy) sailing competition. New Brighton is a popular place for jet-skiing as well as for paddle boarding and kitesurfing. Sea kayaking is also popular in the Dee and Mersey Estuaries. Rowing; Liverpool Victoria Rowing Club, despite its name, is and always has been in Wallasey, rowing on the Great Float. Cricket Birkenhead Park Cricket Club Birkenhead St Mary's Cricket