The Open Championship

  • The Open 2022: The secret life of the Swilcan Burn

    Tuesday 28 June 2022

    There are more formidable water hazards in golf, but none can claim to be as famous as the stream that crosses the 1st and 18th fairways of the Old Course at St Andrews. Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. The great golf writer Bernard Darwin may have described the Swilcan Burn as “a paltry little streamlet”...

  • The Open 2022: St Andrews Old Course guide

    Monday 27 June 2022

    The 150th Open Championship is being played at the most famous golf venue of them all – The Old Course at St Andrews. We enlisted the help of a legendary caddie to compile our in-depth course guide ahead of the year’s final Major. Today’s Golfer’s 2022 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. The hallowed turf of the Old Course...

  • The Open to return to Royal Portrush in 2025

    Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 8 September 2021

    The Open Championship is heading back to Northern Ireland with Royal Portrush confirmed as host for 2025. Northern Ireland won’t have to wait another 68 years for The Open to be played on its shores again– The R&A has confirmed the 153rd Championship will be heading back to Royal Portrush on the Antrim coast for a third time in 2025, just...

  • The Open: Facts, stats and things you missed

    Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 19 July 2021

    Collin Morikawa is the Champion Golfer of the Year and his Open victory will rightly grab the headlines. But there were plenty more stories, stats and fun moments that happened at Royal St George’s Golf Club. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Here are some of the things you may already know from the year’s final...

  • Ten things you need to know about Royal St George’s

    Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 12 July 2021

    Ten things to know about Royal St George’s Golf Club ahead of the 149th Open Championship. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. The Open’s English No.1… This year marks the 15th time the Open Championship has been played at Royal St George’s in Sandwich, Kent. The first was way back in 1894 when it became the first...

  • The inside story of Royal St George’s Golf Club

    Written by Peter Masters on Friday 9 July 2021

    What is so special about Royal St George’s, host of the 149th Open Championship? Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. A year later than expected – and despite the best efforts of a global pandemic – The Open finally arrives back at Royal St George’s where 32,000 fans will be in attendance each day. We paid...

  • The Open 2021: Royal St George’s course guide

    Written by Michael Catling on Wednesday 30 June 2021

    Our 18-hole course guide to Royal St George’s Golf Club, host of the 149th Open Championship and one of the toughest tests on the Major’s rota. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. The wait is almost over. Ten years after its last appearance in Kent, and a year later than originally billed, The Open Championship returns...

  • The inside story of 2003’s incredible Open Championship

    Written by John Huggan on Wednesday 30 June 2021

    The inside story of the 2003 Open Championship at Royal St George’s Golf Club, one of the most dramatic Majors ever. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Even more than usual for the world’s biggest and most important event, the 2003 Open Championship had a little bit of everything. You might even call it Shakespearian.  There was...

  • The men who took down Royal St George’s to win The Open

    Written by Kevin Brown on Wednesday 30 June 2021

    Open Championship winners’ tales. We talk to the five living Royal St George’s winners to find out how they tamed the Kent links to lift the Claret Jug. There are four measures of success in professional golf – getting your card, making cuts, winning… and, the toughest of all, winning a Major championship. Since the first one at Prestwick in 1860,...

  • Shane Lowry: “Winning The Open hasn’t changed me.”

    Written by John Huggan and Kevin Brown on Wednesday 30 June 2021

    As he prepares to defend The Open at Royal St George’s, reigning champion Shane Lowry talks about life with the Claret Jug, winning a Major at Royal Portrush, growing up in Rory McIlroy’s shadow and his determination to make the Ryder Cup team. Today’s Golfer’s 2021 Major coverage is brought to you in association with TaylorMade. Shane Lowry hasn’t minded waiting an extra...