Written by Alex Perry on Tuesday 22 April 2025
The governing body’s new boss, Mark Darbon, has extended an olive branch to Turnberry as the venue’s wait to hold The Open goes on. There’s a fresh twist in the ongoing drama between the R&A and Turnberry. The Open has not been held on the Ayrshire links’ stunning Ailsa course since 2009, when 59-year-old Tom Watson almost became golf’s oldest...
Written by Rob McGarr on Tuesday 22 April 2025
The R&A has confirmed that the 153rd Open at Royal Portrush will smash attendance records in 2025, drawing more fans than any other Open Championship held outside St Andrews. When The Open returned to Royal Portrush in 2019 for the first time in nearly 70 years, it was universally hailed as a triumph. Shane Lowry’s emotional win on home soil, the...
Written by TG staff on Friday 14 February 2025
Who’s in the 2025 Open Championship field and what did they do to earn a spot at Royal Portrush? Here’s the full rundown… The 2025 Open Championship field will once again feature a mixture of professionals and amateurs from all around the globe as the R&A continue with its bid for golf’s oldest major to also be its most diverse. Where will...
Written by Will Shreeve-Peacock on Wednesday 24 July 2024
Most golf fans dreams are others’ reality, I got a chance to go inside the ropes at Royal Troon at the 152 Open Championship and I thought I’d bring you along with me It’s not every day you get to go inside the ropes at a Major Championship, especially The Open Championship at a course you’ve played before. This was my...
Written by Rob Jerram on Sunday 21 July 2024
Justin Rose credited Xander Schauffele’s “freedom” during the final round of the British Open as the gutted Englishman came to terms with missing out on his second Major at Royal Troon. When the fans got to their feet and Justin Rose punched the air after holing a birdie putt on the 18th, you’d have been forgiven for thinking he’d won The...
Written by Rob McGarr on Sunday 21 July 2024
Xander Schauffele won the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon to add to his PGA Championship victory in May. Xander Schauffele won the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon, inspired by a YouTube video he watched in the run-up to the tournament. The 30-year-old American hit an impressive bogey-free final round 65, including a 31 on the back nine, to surpass...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Sunday 21 July 2024
As the light fades on Sunday at Royal Troon we pick out our favorite facts and figures that characterized the 152nd British Open Championship. The enduring memory of the 2024 British Open when all is said and done will start and end with Xander Schauffele raising the Claret Jug on the 18th green at Royal Troon. The last numbers have been...
Written by Sarah Pyett on Sunday 21 July 2024
We’re on the ground at the Open Championship bringing you all the action from the final day where the 2024 Champion Golfer of the year will lift the Claret Jug. Here’s a rundown of everything you missed from Sunday’s Open Championship action at Royal Troon. Sunday pin ‘carnage’ Pin positions for the final day at Royal Troon are looking very ‘Sunday’ style, according...
Written by Rob Jerram on Saturday 20 July 2024
Shane Lowry shot a six-over 77 on one of the toughest days in Open Championship history to dent his hopes of a second Claret Jug and quickly mocked plans to roll back the golf ball and lashed out at Royal Troon the course set-up. The Irishman, who led by two as he headed out in the final group alongside England’s Dan...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Saturday 20 July 2024
With play concluded on day three of The Open Championship, we pick out the key stats and review where each player gained and lost at Royal Troon. After three rounds of The Open at Royal Troon, there are only nine players under par, the lowest at this point since 2013 at Muirfield when there were only three players under par. Thriston...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Saturday 20 July 2024
Calum Scott holds off the competition to win The Open’s Silver Medal in front of a home crowd at Royal Troon. Royal Troon started the week with 12 hopefuls vying for the prestigious Silver Medal, awarded to the low amateur of The Open Championship at the Claret Jug presentation ceremony. And after the cut was made at +6 on Friday night...
Written by Sarah Pyett on Saturday 20 July 2024
LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman is on site at Royal Troon after being issued an invite to the 152nd British Open Championship by the R&A. Back in April, Greg Norman made headlines as he purchased a ticket to The Masters at Augusta National, after the tournament denied him a professional ticket when he applied through the official channels. The R&A had...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Saturday 20 July 2024
I sat down at The Open with Olympic Gold medalist and triple jump world record holder Jonathan Edwards to find out about his transition into a different set of spikes and post-athletics passion for golf. It’s almost 30 years since Jonathan Edwards hopped, stepped, and jumped over 60 feet to lay down one of track and field’s longest-standing world records. His...
Written by Rob McGarr on Saturday 20 July 2024
Only 13 players have made the weekend at all four of 2024’s biggest tournaments. After the halfway cut at Royal Troon’s Open, we identify the year’s most consistent players in majors and see who has the longest streak of major cuts made. Winning a major is hard, but making the cut in one isn’t exactly a walk in the park either.
Written by Sarah Pyett on Saturday 20 July 2024
We’re on the ground at the British Open bringing you all the action from Moving Day where the newly cut field jostles for positioning and a chance on Sunday to lift the Claret Jug. Here’s a rundown of everything you missed from Saturday’s British Open action at Royal Troon. Robert MacIntyre has just played a shot RIGHT-HANDED 👀 pic.twitter.com/feNZGBi8dR— Sky Sports Golf...
Written by Sarah Pyett on Saturday 20 July 2024
Tee times and pairings for the deciding round of the 152nd British Open Championship at Royal Troon. It’s been a mixed bag at the British Open so far, with some big names missing the cut at Royal Troon, and players like Max Homa making last-minute birdies to continue their quest for the Claret Jug into the weekend. The unexpected leader after round...
Written by James Hogg on Saturday 20 July 2024
I headed out on round two of the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon with Dan Brown to understand more about his golf game. Here’s what I learned after watching him for 18 holes… Daniel (Dan, as I now know he prefers to be called) Brown unexpectedly found himself at the top of the leaderboard in the 152nd British Open at...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Friday 19 July 2024
Troon showed its teeth at the 152nd Open Championship on Thursday and Friday, claiming the scalps of a host of the game’s biggest stars. It’s been an Open Championship to forget for some of the world’s best players with Aryshire’s brutal crosswinds causing havoc across the opening two days of play at Royal Troon. With only ten players sitting under par...
Written by Will Shreeve-Peacock on Friday 19 July 2024
We’re on the ground at the British Open this week, bringing you all the action you missed from the second tournament day at Royal Troon. Welcome to day two of the 152nd British Open, the Scottish weather still proceeds to give the players a battering as they try to fight the wind and get into the clubhouse unscathed. Not quite the...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Friday 19 July 2024
The last time The Open Championship was tied after 72 holes was in 2015 meaning we are probably overdue a nail-biting finish sooner rather than later. If two or more players can’t be separated after four rounds then The Open Championship heads to a playoff, consisting of a four-hole aggregate mini-competition followed by a sudden death shootout if the lead is...