When the Royal Portrush Golf Club was founded, it was called simply “the Country Club.” Starting in 1892, the club was renamed “the Royal Country Club,” and in 1895, it became the “Royal Portrush ...

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The 2025 British Open is being held at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland. For many participating in the event, they will be a long way from home playing in the one golf major of ...

The British Open is ready to close out what has been an exciting major season in golf. Rory McIlroy opened the year with a thrilling win at the Masters to complete his career Grand Slam. Then, Scottie ...

The town of Portrush in Northern Ireland will host the event for the first time since 2019. By Paul Sullivan Photographs by Karen Cox Driving into the town of Portrush, host of this week’s Open ...

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — If you watched Haotong Li play the first two rounds of the Masters in 2019, with Jon Rahm and Tiger Woods, you actually might have thought he could someday win the Masters ...

The scenic Northern Ireland links is hosting an Open for the second time in six years, but before that there was a 68-year drought. Bob Harig explores how Royal Portrush’s fortunes turned. PORTRUSH, ...

The Open Championship has been contested for over 160 years, but it's only been played somewhere other than Scotland or England three times. On each occasion in 1951, 2019 and 2025, is gone to just ...

As a golf club, Royal Portrush is as venerable as it gets, with a rich pedigree and roots that reach back to 1888. But as an Open rota stop, it’s a relative newbie. The oldest golf championship in the ...

The USGA announced its fourth U.S. The 2027 Ryder Cup is one year away but a key battle between Jim Furyk and Luke Donald has already begun and will continue for the next year. Bill Murray and author ...

It's 1888, and two Scots — George Baillie and Thomas Gilroy — are standing on the windswept dunes of Northern Ireland's Causeway Coast, envisioning something extraordinary. At the time, they could not ...