Written by Ross Tugwood on Monday 15 July 2024
The Open Championship tees off at Royal Troon from July 18-21. Today’s Golfer previews golf’s oldest tournament as the 152nd edition gets underway on the Ayrshire links. Less than 100 days after Scottie Scheffler sank the winning putt at Augusta National at the opening Major of the season, golf’s elite tee off at Royal Troon for the last. It’s an intense...
Written by Michael Catling on Monday 15 July 2024
Royal Troon’s most famous member, Colin Montgomerie, gives a hole-by-hole account of how to get to grips with this year’s British Open course. For our 2024 British Open Royal Troon course guide, we enlisted the help of Colin Montgomerie, a man who knows the place better than perhaps anyone else. Growing up five doors down from Royal Troon, Colin Montgomerie used...
Written by Sarah Pyett on Monday 15 July 2024
We’re on the ground at the British Open this week, and we’re bringing you all of the action you missed from Monday at Royal Troon. The first practice day of the week brought us sunshine and surprisingly large crowds. Here’s a rundown of the action from practice day one at the 2024 British Open. Super Scottie If you weren’t already planning to...
Written by Will Shreeve-Peacock on Wednesday 24 July 2024
Most golf fans dreams are others’ reality, I got a chance to go inside the ropes at Royal Troon at the 152 Open Championship and I thought I’d bring you along with me It’s not every day you get to go inside the ropes at a Major Championship, especially The Open Championship at a course you’ve played before. This was my...
Written by Sarah Pyett on Monday 15 July 2024
Not long after the R&A announced the prize fund for the 2024 British Open Championship would increase by $500,000 on last year’s purse, 2023 champion Brian Harman arrived at Royal Troon to hand back the Claret Jug. During his press conference, Harman was asked if he would still play in The British Open Championship, even if there was no prize fund. “Yeah,...
Written by Matt Cooper on Monday 15 July 2024
The 2024 British Open is the 10th at Royal Troon – what happened every time The Open visited Royal Troon previously? 2024 is the 152nd Open Championship – and the 10th at Royal Troon. You may remember the most recent one – Henrik Stenson’s epic duel with Phil Mickelson – but what about Royal Troon Opens before that? 1923 Troon’s first-ever Open...
Written by Matt Cooper on Monday 15 July 2024
I examine the past trends and latest stats to identify the men most likely to win The Open at Royal Troon. Conventional wisdom has it that what golf really needs right now is the best playing the best more often and that 2024’s major championships prove as much. (Although some big names won’t be in the Open field at Royal Troon.) There...
Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 15 July 2024
The winner of the 152nd Open at Royal Troon will bag a record-breaking amount of prize money. The winner of The 152nd Open at Royal Troon will receive $3.1 million in prize money. The Champion Golfer of the Year will receive the highest amount in The Open’s history as it returns to the renowned Ayrshire links for the tenth time. The R&A announced that...
Written by Lewis Daff on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Bryson DeChambeau is no stranger to unique equipment for his setup but is there something more to come from the two-time US Open champion? Sat in the press conference center at Royal Troon, Bryson DeChambeau is a confident figure. The recently-crowned US Open victor has every reason to carry himself in that way, having proven every decision he’s made, both with...
Written by James Hogg on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Tee times and pairings for the second round of the 152nd British Open Championship at Royal Troon. Round two tee times for Royal Troon have been revealed. The opening tee shot on the second day of the British Open will be Scotland’s very own Ewen Ferguson who’s playing alongside Germany’s Marcel Siem in the only two-ball on Friday. It’s expected that...
Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Jon Rahm on Spanish sporting superiority, golf’s condensed Major season, and his chances at Royal Troon. Rewind a few weeks to Pinehurst No.2 and a frustrated-looking, sandal-wearing Jon Rahm addressed the media before hobbling out on one foot leaving the room perplexed about how he could realistically compete at the highest level. The Spaniard remains winless since joining the breakaway tour and...
Written by Rob Jerram on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Tiger Woods delivered a brutal response to Colin Montgomerie ahead of the 152nd British Open after the European golf legend suggested the 15-time Major Champion shouldn’t be here. In an in-depth interview with The Times, Monty (read his full Troon course guide here) said he hoped “people remember Tiger as Tiger was, the passion and the charismatic aura around him.” “There is...
Written by Sarah Pyett on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Tiger Woods was granted a lifetime exemption into signature PGA Tour events recently, but he’s now revealed he won’t take the place of anyone who has qualified to be there. Speaking to the media ahead of the 2024 British Open at Royal Troon, Tiger Woods was asked about his recent exemption, dubbed the ‘Tiger Rule’, meaning he can play in signature...
Written by Michael Catling on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Royal Troon has hosted The Open Championship nine times and has staged some of the greatest moments in Open history. Here’s a brief rundown of every Open at Troon so far… The 152nd British Open will be the 10th at Royal Troon. But who won the previous nine – and how did they end up winning the Claret Jug? 1923 Norfolk’s Arthur Havers...
Written by Matt Cooper on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Will Royal Troon see The Open’s first LIV Golf winner? Cast your mind back to the summer of 2022: St Andrews. The home of golf. The Old Course. The 150th Open. In the town that produced Old Tom Morris, tens of thousands of fans from around the world arrived to celebrate a century and a half of the oldest championship of...
Written by James Hogg on Tuesday 16 July 2024
High-on-life Bryson DeChambeau says he’s the happiest he’s ever been as he looks to add The British Open to his growing collection of Major Championships. Ahead of The Open Championship, Bryson DeChambeau sat down for a press conference with the media and suggested we could be seeing some equipment being released by the aptly named ‘Scientist’. DeChambeau is one of the...
Written by Rob Jerram on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Rory McIlroy accidentally ghosted Tiger Woods having changed his mobile number in the days after his US Open disappointment. Speaking ahead of The 152nd British Open at Royal Troon, the Northern Irishman revealed he’d switched numbers in a bid to escape messages from some segments of the media who wanted his thoughts on his heartbreaking near-miss. But as well as escaping the...
Written by Matt Cooper on Tuesday 16 July 2024
The last Royal Troon Open was a record-breaking epic, and we asked the winner to relive every dramatic moment… Early on Sunday morning of the 2016 Open Championship, Henrik Stenson woke knowing that he’d achieved substantially more than most in the game. A multiple winner around the world, a Ryder Cup star and a former World No.2, he was also the...
Written by Garrett Johnston on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Defending Open champion Brian Harman on embracing his nickname, upsetting the odds to win in 2023 at Hoylake, and why he turned down LIV Golf. Brian Harman absolutely dominated the 2023 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool (aka Hoylake). He began the week a 200/1 outsider, having not won any event for more than six years, but took the lead during the...
Written by Rob Jerram on Wednesday 17 July 2024
Martin Slumbers says the R&A is backing Portmarnock Golf Club’s attempts to host The Open Championship at the famous Dublin course. Speaking during his annual press conference at The 152nd Open at Royal Troon, the Royal and Ancient’s outgoing chief executive revealed that the Irish course has asked the Government for support in putting together a business case to take the...