Royal Portrush has been confirmed as the host venue for The 153rd Open in 2025, following its hugely successful staging of the championship in 2019.
Here is all you need to know about the spectacular County Antrim links, which will once again welcome golf’s original major in four years’ time.
Although Royal Portrush had only hosted The Open Championship once prior to The 148th Open, back in 1951, the venue has a proud and illustrious history of staging major events.
Founded in 1888 and originally known as the County Club, it was extended to an 18-hole course the following year before being named as the Royal Portrush Golf Club in 1895.
The inaugural venue for the Irish Open Amateur Championship and Irish Professional Championship, Portrush has a long association with the Women’s Amateur Championship, which it has hosted nine times since becoming the first links outside of England to do so in 1895.
After renowned course designer Harry Colt had laid out plans for the Dunluce Links in 1929, Portrush went on to welcome the Irish Open on three occasions before hosting its first Open Championship 70 years ago, with Max Faulkner securing the Claret Jug.
Prior to its second Open, Portrush was the venue for three editions of the Amateur Championship, the 2012 Irish Open and the 2018 Boys Amateur Championship, while it also staged the Senior Open in five successive years from 1995 and again in 2004.
To read more about Royal Portrush, the venue for the 153rd Open, visit https://www.theopen.com/latest/royal-portrush-5-things-153rd-open.
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