The Open Championship returns to Royal Troon this year for the first time since that epic 2016 duel between Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson. Ultimately, the Swede won that day, but as one ...

This collection of courses — colloquially known as the Open Championship rota — has played host to some of the biggest moments in major championship history, and is well-known to golf fans ...

Of the many things to love about The Open Championship is the familiarity that golf fans are able to build with golf courses that we see in the course rota that the governing R&A has to pick and ...

The par 71 course measures 7,385 yards from the championship tees, but – as with most courses in the Open rota – the wind, gorse and bunkers will all play major roles in how it plays.

Still, what happened to knock those other, historic courses off the Open rota? Prestwick, in Scotland, is where the Open began. Old Tom Morris, the first international golf star, designed Prestwick.

As a result, the R&A has swiftly decided to remove Muirfield, arguably the best course in the Open Championship rota, from consideration for hosting a future Open -- or at least until the club's ...

know that the par-4 17th is the toughest hole on The Open rota. In 2015, there were 55 double bogeys or worse, and the average scores on No. 17 over the last 40 years account for six of the 10 ...

The Open Championship returns to Royal Troon this year for the first time since that epic 2016 duel between Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson. Ultimately, the Swede won that day, but as one ...