The Open

  1. Welcome to Portrush

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    The best golfers in the world have descended on the Northern Irish town of Portrush for the 153rd Open Championship.

    Six years after Shane Lowry lifted the famous Claret Jug on the Dunluce course, one of the world's biggest sporting events is back on the north coast of Northern Ireland.

    This page will be your dedicated resource for everything from the Open Championship as BBC Sport takes you through every twist and turn in the crowning of 2025's 'Champion Golfer of the Year'.

    Alongside our live radio and text coverage throughout the week, we'll aim to bring you some of the press conferences from the likes of Rory McIlroy and defending champion Xander Schauffele alongside expert analysis from our golf correspondent Iain Carter and reporters on the course.

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  3. Seb Cave plays a shot

  4. Padraig Harrington shakes hands with Sergio Garcia after beating him to the 2007 Open Championship title, while holding the Claret Jug and Rory McIlroy looks on

  5. Ireland's Shane Lowry kisses the Claret Jug after winning the 2019 Open Championship at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland

  6. Two girls are smiling at the camera. They both have long blonde hair an are wearing black sunglasses. The girl on the left is wearing a white top and the girl on the right is wearing a pink shirt and black cap.

  7. Shane Lowry with the Claret Jug after winning the 2019 Open Championship at Royal Portrush

  8. When did McIlroy last play Portrush..?

    Richard Winton
    BBC Sport Scotland

    Rory McIlroyGetty Images

    It would be easy to think an Open Championship at his home course would have dominated Rory Mcllroy's thoughts these past while.

    But it would be an inaccurate assumpion to make. When did the Northern Irishman last play Royal Portrush?

    "Friday the whatever of July 2019," he said, dismissively referring to his second round the last time the event was on the Antrim coast. An event that started with an appalling tee shot and ended with McIlroy missing the cut.

    "Harry was there last week," he added, referring to caddy Harry Diamond.

    "They've added a little bit of length to a couple of holes - four and seven - and they've changed the seventh green but everything else is the same."

  9. Rory McIlroy smiles past the camera as he holds a golf putter. He is wearing a grey sweatshirt and a white cap.

  10. Rory McIlroy wears a white cap and grey polo shirt. He wears a white glove in his left hand. He looks like he has just finished a swing and is holding a driver in his hands. He is looking up into the air like he is following the ball. There is blurred greenery behind him.

  11. Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy

  12. Nathan Kimsey poses with a pin flag after qualifying for the Open during final qualifying

  13. Harry Hall watches on after teeing off

  14. Peter Finch

  15. Ian Poulter at a LIV Golf event

  16. Sian is wearing glasses and smiling while looking directly at the camera. She is standing in front of the beach in Ballycastle with Fairhead cliff in the background. Sian is wearing a burgundy cardigan and dark top.

  17. A girl wearing glasses and a yellow polo shirt looks in the camera. In the background is a grassy lawn, like the fairway of a golf course, and a white wooden fence.

  18. A young girl wears a yellow Hi-Viz vest. Underneath she wears a blue jumper and yellow polo shirt. Behind her is the back of a large navy stand. There is a green grass putting green over her right shoulder.

  19. A white jet with a blue stripe photographed from the ground against a blue sky with a few small fluffy clouds

  20. Rob Wheeler holds a pose after playing his tee shot

  21. Tom McKibbin

  22. Question of Sport talent