All You Need to Know

The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush is here.

Read on for everything you need to know about the next staging of golf’s original Championship.

When is The 153rd Open?

The Championship will take place from 13-20 July 2025, with practice rounds taking place at Royal Portrush from Sunday 13 July and the first round of The 153rd Open taking place on Thursday 17 July.

How can I attend The 153rd Open?

Tickets for The 153rd Open were distributed via a ballot, with general admission tickets for all eight days of the Championship selling out in record time.

However, some Premium Experiences – offering world-class hospitality paired with superior views of the action – are still available.

How can I watch and listen?

A host of global broadcast partners will televise The 153rd Open, including NBC / Golf Channel in the United States and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. In all, more than 30 broadcast partners will be televising the Championship across 199 countries and territories.

Fans will also be able to watch a host of live streams on R&A TV, including Featured Group coverage, Live at The Range in partnership with HSBC and a Par-3 Channel.

Live at The Range in partnership with HSBC will start at 9am on Monday, 14 July.

Our broadcast team will be at the range, and around the practice areas, as the players fine tune their game ahead of golf’s original championship.

Tune in and see who stops by for a chat and, with the help of TopTracer data, learn more about how their practice compares to their competitors – and see what adjustments they make for links golf.

The broadcast team will include presenters Di Stewart and Peter Finch, on-course reporter George Harper Jnr, and on-site commentator Simon Holmes.

Coverage will run from 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm Monday to Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday timings are 7.30am to 11am and 12.30pm to 4pm.

In addition, The Open Radio will offer more than 50 hours of live coverage, and will be available across the globe through The Open website, The Open App, and R&A TV. In the UK it will also be broadcast on talkSPORT 2 and on Sirius XM in the United States.

The Open website and app will feature comprehensive coverage of the Championship including live scoring, the biggest talking points, and exclusive features so you can delve deeper into all the action as it happens.

Spectator Advice

Our Plan Your Day page contains all the key information you need if you are attending The 153rd Open, including a venue guide and information on how tickets will be delivered digitally via The Open Tickets App. You can also find guidance on the various ways you can travel to Portrush on our Getting There page.

If you have any questions regarding your attendance at The Open, visit our Help Centre.

Tourism Northern Ireland have also produced a detailed guide for fans planning a trip to Portrush for The 153rd Open, which you can read here.

How does qualifying for The Open work?

Following the Genesis Scottish Open, part of the Open Qualifying Series, the field for The 153rd Open is now complete.

Three players - Chris Gotterup, Nicolai Hojgaard and Matti Schmid - qualified for Royal Portrush at the event, which was one of a number of different routes into The Open.

Previous Champions are among the players already exempt from qualification, with several exemption categories in place.

Players not exempt could qualify through routes including the Open Qualifying Series, while Regional and Final Qualifying events were open to professional and amateur golfers worldwide who met the entry criteria.

On 1 July 20 players secured their places at Royal Portrush through Final Qualifying, and you can recap all the action from a thrilling day.

You can view the field for The 153rd Open here.

How many times has The Open been played at Royal Portrush?

Portrush is staging The Open for the third time. Max Faulkner claimed the Claret Jug in 1951, when Portrush became the first course outside Scotland and England to host the Championship, while Shane Lowry memorably triumphed when The Open returned to the County Antrim coast in 2019.