Open Championship is will feature a talented field competing in Northern Ireland. What to know ahead of the final golf major ...

By the time Rory McIlroy finished his first practice round for the British Open at Royal Portrush, a big crowd that weathered ...

There's been a big change at the British Open that has caddies and players perplexed. The R&A has decided to not longer have ...

A grand total of $17 million is up for grabs in this year's British Open, along with the claret jug and a gold medal. The ...

Rory McIlroy's legion of fans came in hope more than expectation to the final day of the British Open at Royal Portrush.

Erskine, the club’s then-secretary of 35 years—who many credit with bringing the Open to Portrush—was waiting for a defining ...

The R&A is considering future Open Championship locations, with Royal St. George’s and Muirfield as potential contenders.

Soon Northern Ireland calmed still further, and Portrush drew astounding crowds to the 2012 Irish Open, 17 years after holding the first of its six Senior British Opens. Soon, McDowell said ...

The Open Championship began in 1860 when Willie Park Sr. defeated seven other golfers at Prestwick in Scotland. When the “British Open” began is a little less clear.

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Rory McIlroy will assuredly receive the loudest ovations throughout the British Open.McIlroy, a native of Northern Ireland and the third-ranked golfer in the world ...

Darren Clarke, who won the Open in 2011, grew up in Northern Ireland and narrowly escaped tragedy in 1986 while working at a bar. Advertisement “The bomb scare at 8:30 [p.m.], everybody out ...

(Which is why a British Open played in Northern Ireland isn’t really a “British” Open.) Hang on though. Northern Ireland—which came into being as part of the U.K. in 1922—does, ...