List of The Open Championship venues

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The Open Championship is an annual golf competition established in 1860, and is organised by The R&A.[1] It is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July, and is the last of the four major championships to be played each year.Template:Sfn The championship is held on a different course each year. Fourteen courses have hosted the event, all links courses in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. Ten are currently used in the rota.[2][3]

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The Swilcan Bridge in the foreground on the Old Course at St Andrews, which has hosted the Open Championship a record 30 times.

Prestwick Golf Club hosted the first championship in 1860 and remained the only venue until 1873, when the Old Course at St Andrews hosted the event. Prestwick hosted a further 12 championships, the last in 1925.[4] Musselburgh Links became the third course to host the championship in 1874. The three courses rotated the hosting until 1892 when Muirfield hosted the event. The Honourable Company of Edinburgh golfers built their own course at Muirfield and Musselburgh was removed from the rota as a result.[5] Royal St George's Golf Club became the first course outside Scotland to host the championship in 1894.[6]

Royal Liverpool Golf Club hosted the competition for the first time in 1897. Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club became the next course to host the event in 1909. The course hosted a further championship in 1920, but further attempts to host the championship in 1938 and 1949 were thwarted by bad weather and the course was dropped from the rota.[7] Royal Troon, Royal Lytham & St Annes and Carnoustie held the Open Championship for the first time in 1923, 1926 and 1931 respectively. The following year Prince's Golf Club hosted the event for the only time. The course was requisitioned by the military during the Second World War and was extensively damaged.[8] Royal Birkdale was chosen as the host course in 1940, however, due to the Second World War the event did not go ahead.[9] It was not until 1954 that Royal Birkdale hosted the Open.[10]

The Old Course at St Andrews has hosted the most championships, 30, most recently in 2022. The championship has been held outside Scotland and England twice, in 1951 and 2019; Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland was the venue for both tournaments.[11] Turnberry became the most recent course to host the championship for the first time, when it held the 1977 Open Championship.[12] The R&A said in 2021 that they would not hold the event at Turnberry in the foreseeable future.[13]

Venues

Key
Template:Dagger Courses that are no longer on the Open rota
— Courses in rota with next hosting not yet assigned
The Open Championship venues
Venue Location First Last Next Times Lowest 72-
hole score 		Player (year) Ref
Prestwick Golf Club Template:Dagger Prestwick, Scotland 1860 1925 Template:Dagger 24 291 Script error: No such module "Sort". (1908) [14]
Old Course at St Andrews St Andrews, Scotland 1873 2022 2027 30 268 (−20) Script error: No such module "Sort". (2022) [15]
Musselburgh Links Template:Dagger Musselburgh, Scotland 1874 1889 Template:Dagger 6 155<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] Script error: No such module "Sort". (1889) [16]
Muirfield Gullane, Scotland 1892 2013 — 16 271 (−13) Script error: No such module "Sort". (1980) [17]
Royal St George's Golf Club Sandwich, England 1894 2021 — 15 265 (−15) Script error: No such module "Sort". (2021) [6]
Royal Liverpool Golf Club Hoylake, England 1897 2023 — 13 270 (−18) Script error: No such module "Sort". (2006) [18]
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club Template:Dagger Deal, England 1909 1920 Template:Dagger 2 291 Script error: No such module "Sort". (1909) [19]
Royal Troon Golf Club Troon, Scotland 1923 2024 — 10 264 (−20) Script error: No such module "Sort". (2016) [20]
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club Lytham St Annes, England 1926 2012 — 11 271 (−13) Script error: No such module "Sort". (1996) [21]
Carnoustie Golf Links Carnoustie, Scotland 1931 2018 — 8 276 (−8) Script error: No such module "Sort". (2018) [22]
Prince's Golf Club Template:Dagger Sandwich, England 1932 1932 Template:Dagger 1 283 (−13) Script error: No such module "Sort". (1932) [23]
Royal Portrush Golf Club Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland 1951 2019 2025 2 269 (−15) Script error: No such module "Sort". (2019) [24]
Royal Birkdale Golf Club Southport, England 1954 2017 2026 10 268 (−12) Script error: No such module "Sort". (2017) [10]
Turnberry Template:Dagger South Ayrshire, Scotland 1977 2009 Template:Dagger 4 268 (−12) Script error: No such module "Sort". (1977)
Nick Price (1994) 		[25]

Notes

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Footnotes

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References

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External links

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