The Royal Portrush course, host venue for the 153rd Open Championship.
THE 153rd version of the Open Championship will get underway at Royal Portrush in Northern Eire for simply the third time within the championship’s historical past that dates again to 1860.
The Open was first performed at Royal Portrush in 1951. That 12 months, a crowd of 8000 watched Englishman Max Faulkner carry the Claret Jug.
In 2019, Irishman Shane Lowry lifted the trophy at Royal Portrush.
Australians have at all times been aggressive on the Open regardless of the place it was performed.
Peter Thomson turned the primary Australian to win the Open in 1954 and he went on to assert an extra 4 victories
Kel Nagle, Greg Norman, Ian Baker-Finch and Cameron Smith joined Thommo as an Open champion. The Shark gained it twice – at Royal St George’s and Turnberry.
The sphere can be made up of 156 gamers. If there’s a tie for the lead after 72 holes, a three-hole mixture playoff is held; adopted by sudden-death if the lead remains to be tied.
Based in 1888, Royal Portrush boasts among the finest and most difficult hyperlinks golf programs on the earth. It’s demanding, lengthy and has tight and slim fairways.
Royal Portrush is well-known for numerous spectacular holes. One is the fifth gap, aptly named White Rock, requires two of probably the most exhilarating two photographs in golf.
American Xander Schauffele would be the defending champion at Royal Portrush.
It’s a shortish 382 yards (350m) par-4 off the again tee block with an undulating fairway that runs as much as the difficult seaside inexperienced with the chalk cliff as a backdrop. The Atlantic Ocean will swallow strategy photographs hit too lengthy.
Then there’s the 236-yard (216m) par-3 sixteenth gap named Calamity Nook.
It runs alongside the ridge of a deep chasm, leaving solely a modest area to bail out to the left of the inexperienced, which turned generally known as “Bobby Locke’s Hole”.
Within the 1951 Open, the South African and four-time Open champion performed to this spot every spherical preferring to chip his second shot slightly than threat catastrophe from the tee.
It’s going to be enjoyable to look at.
Aussies on the ’25 Open
CAMERON Smith will look to recapture the shape which noticed him outduel Rory McIlroy at St Andrews to turn out to be the ‘Champion Golfer’ of 2022, whereas a handful of Australians had certified to affix him at Royal Portrush within the occasion which tees off from July 17 to twenty.
Adam Scott, who first performed the Open in 2001 and can make his 97th consecutive main championship look at Portrush, can be joined by Jason Day, Min Woo Lee and Elvis Smylie, with Marc Leishman, Curtis Luck, together with American Ryggs Johnston, additionally exempt on account of their placings on the 2024 Australian Open.
Cameron Smith, the ‘Champion Golfer’ in 2022, can be trying to recapture the shape that noticed him win the Open Championship at St Andrews.
The Australian Open, performed at Victoria and Kingston Heath, doubled as an Open Championship qualifying occasion. Johnston was the unlikely winner, with Leishman and Luck the subsequent highest finishers not already within the Open subject.
Last qualifying can even happen at 4 websites within the UK within the lead as much as the Open in affording gamers a final alternative to play at Royal Portrush.
