The Open Championship 2025-07-17

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Event
The Open Championship

Date
Thu 17th July 2025 (UTC)
Thu 17th July 2025 (Local)

Timestamp
2025-07-17T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC

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League
PGA Tour

Season
2025

Round
33

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Location
Royal Portrush Golf Club

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The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world, and one of the most prestigious. Founded in 1860, it was originally held annually at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. Later the venue rotated between a select group of coastal links golf courses in the United Kingdom. It is organised by The R&A.
The Open is one of the four men's major golf tournaments, the others being the Masters Tournament, the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open. Since the PGA Championship moved to May in 2019, the Open has been chronologically the fourth and final major tournament of the year. It is held in mid-July.
It is called The Open because it is in theory "open" to all, i.e. professional and amateur golfers. In practice, the current event is a professional tournament in which a small number of the world's leading amateurs also play, by invitation or qualification. The success of the tournament has led to many other open golf tournaments to be introduced around the world.
Since 1995, the United States has dominated the competition, winning 17 out of the last 29 Opens.