The 2025 Open Championship is set to take place from Thursday, 17 July to Sunday, 20 July at the iconic Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland.
This historic venue once again welcomes the world’s finest golfers for four days of championship drama. Defending champion Xander Schauffele of the United States, who famously captured the title in 2024 and previously won Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020, returns with high expectations. He will be challenged by a stellar field, including current Olympic champion Scottie Scheffler, who arrives at Portrush in sensational form, having won three of his last six starts. Local favorite Rory McIlroy, the 2014 Open winner, will look to ignite home crowd support in his bid to reclaim the Claret Jug, while two-time major champions Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau round out a field packed with firepower.
Official practice days were held from Sunday, 13 July through Wednesday, 16 July, preparing the stage for what promises to be a fiercely contested tournament. Round one and two will tee off from 06:35 to 20:30 on Thursday and Friday, followed by round three and the final round from 08:00 to 19:00 on Saturday and Sunday respectively, all times local (BST).
Fans across the globe can catch the action live, with coverage available in over 200 countries. In the United States, NBC platforms including USA Network, Golf Channel, NBC, and Peacock will provide extensive broadcast and streaming coverage across all four days. In the United Kingdom, Sky Sports Golf will be the exclusive broadcaster. In total, more than 30 official broadcast partners will air the championship in 199 countries and territories, reaffirming The Open’s status as one of golf’s most-watched and revered tournaments.
About the DP World Tour
The DP World Tour is the main men’s professional golf tour of the European Tour group.
As golf’s global tour, we showcase global talent in global destinations and use our platform to build, entertain and connect our global community.
GLOBAL TALENT:Â We provide pathways and a platform for the leading international talent, bringing together golfing icons, national heroes and emerging stars from around the world.
GLOBAL DESTINATIONS: We stage tournaments in iconic cities and locations around the world and each week we celebrate and showcase the rich diversity of the courses, cities and cultures we visit.
GLOBAL COMMUNITY:Â We build, entertain and connect communities through our commitment to innovation, creative content and having a positive social and environmental impact.
Our 2025 Global Schedule features 42 tournaments in 26 different countries and comprises three distinct phases: five ‘Global Swings’, the ‘Back 9’ and the ‘DP World Tour Play-Offs’. It features five Rolex Series events – the premium category of events on the DP World Tour – and four Major Championships, all of which count towards the Race to Dubai Rankings, the Tour’s season-long competition which concludes at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.
DP World, the leading provider of global smart end-to-end supply chain and logistics solutions, has been the title partner of the DP World Tour since the start of the 2022 season, the Tour’s 50th season following its formation in 1972.
We also enjoy the support of many of the world’s leading business brands with DP World, Rolex, Aldar, BMW, Buffalo Trace Distillery, Emirates, Fortinet and Vestas as Official Partners.
About the European Tour group
The European Tour group administers the DP World Tour, the HotelPlanner Tour, the Legends Tour and the G4D Tour and, as the Managing Partner of Ryder Cup Europe LLP, stages golf’s greatest team contest, the Ryder Cup, in partnership with the PGA of America.
The European Tour group has Strategic Partnerships with the PGA TOUR, the Sunshine Tour, the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia, the China Golf Association (CGA), the Japan Golf Tour Organization (JGTO), the Korea Professional Golfers’ Association (KPGA), and the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India. These partnerships provide global pathways for players from across the world to compete internationally on the DP World Tour, the main men’s professional golf Tour of the European Tour group which was established in 1972, as well as the HotelPlanner Tour.
