The best images from Thursday at the146th Open Champinship at Royal Birkdale. SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND - JULY 20: A greenskeeper uses a rotavator to prepare a bunker prior to the first round of the 146th ...

The R&A announced a series of changes coming to the British Open in 2026, perhaps none more exciting than a winner-take-all "last chance" qualifier. The Open Championship will be at Royal Birkdale in ...

It's billed as "golf's original championship" and in 2026, the Open Championship will be contested for the 154th time. Unlike the U.S. Open, which has future locations announced as far out as 2051, or ...

The R&A announced in June that it would host a last-chance on-site qualifier for the Open Championship beginning next year at Royal Birkdale. There will be 12 players in a winner-take-all competition ...

From a new Monday qualifier to expanded entertainment and fan access, The R&A is reinventing what Open Week looks like in 2026. The post Final Spot at ’26 Open Championship to Be Decided by New Monday ...

Open Championship 2026 betting as Dave Tindall takes an early look at all four majors in his antepost tipping series, focusing on the battle for the claret jug at Royal Birkdale ...

The 1961 British Open at Royal Birkdale, on the west coast of England, began on July 9, 1960, in St. Andrews, Scotland. The ’60 Open came 100 years after the first Open, and it was Arnold Palmer’s ...

Rory McIlroy is one of only six male goflers to win the career Grand Slam, and his sole British Open victory was at Royal Liverpool. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/R&A/R&A via Getty Images) Since the ...

A row is brewing ahead of the next golf Open Championship over plans for a hitting tee and new fencing at a Merseyside Golf Club. The project is part of a planning application submitted by R&A ...

SOUTHPORT, England -- One year later, Inbee Park is still chasing history at the Women's British Open. Instead of trying to win an unprecedented fourth straight major, Park has a chance to become only ...

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