St Andrews To Host 2027 Open Championship

The Old Course at St Andrews will stage the 155th Open Championship to maintain the five-year rotation of the Home of Golf staging the battle for the Claret Jug

The Swilcan Bridge and the R&A Clubhouse at the Old Course, St Andrews
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The R&A has announced that the 155th Open Championship will be staged at the Old Course in St Andrews in 2027.

The Open had been held at the Home of Golf every five years since 1990, until 2020 when the event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Instead of just moving it on a year, the decision was taken to stage the 2021 event at St George's and switch St Andrews to 2022 to coincide with the 150th Open Championship being played.

And now the R&A has reverted to the five-year plan of holding the battle for the Claret Jug at the sport's spiritual home.

The 155th Open will take place at St Andrews from 11-18 July 2027, in a tournament that will mark the 100th anniversary of Bobby Jones' Open triumph at the Old Course when he won the Claret Jug by six shots in 1927 to successfully defend the title.

Australian Cameron Smith lifted the Claret Jug in the last running of the Open at St Andrews, as he shot a memorable final round of 64 to overhaul Rory McIlroy.

A record-breaking 290,000 golf fans attended the 150th Open that week at St Andrews, and new R&A chief executiver Mark Darbon is hoping for a similar success in 2027.

“I’m hugely excited to be making this my first announcement at The R&A," Darbon said in a statement. "I’m looking forward to The Open’s return to St Andrews every bit as much as the fans and the players.

"There is something incredibly special about The Open being played on the Old Course and so many of the great champions have walked these fairways since the first staging here in 1873.

“St Andrews is the home of golf and it generates a unique atmosphere for the fans and the players as well as providing an amazing spectacle on television and digitally for millions of viewers around the world.

"It promises to be another milestone occasion at one of sport’s greatest and most historic venues and we will be doing everything we can to make it a memorable experience for everyone involved.”

Future Open Championship venues

  • 2025: Royal Portrush
  • 2026: Royal Birkdale
  • 2027: St Andrews
Paul Higham
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Paul Higham is a sports journalist with over 20 years of experience in covering most major sporting events for both Sky Sports and BBC Sport. He is currently freelance and covers the golf majors on the BBC Sport website.  Highlights over the years include covering that epic Monday finish in the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor and watching Rory McIlroy produce one of the most dominant Major wins at the 2011 US Open at Congressional. He also writes betting previews and still feels strangely proud of backing Danny Willett when he won the Masters in 2016 - Willett also praised his putting stroke during a media event before the Open at Hoylake. Favourite interviews he's conducted have been with McIlroy, Paul McGinley, Thomas Bjorn, Rickie Fowler and the enigma that is Victor Dubuisson. A big fan of watching any golf from any tour, sadly he spends more time writing about golf than playing these days with two young children, and as a big fair weather golfer claims playing in shorts is worth at least five shots. Being from Liverpool he loves the likes of Hoylake, Birkdale and the stretch of tracks along England's Golf Coast, but would say his favourite courses played are Kingsbarns and Portrush. 

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