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2025 153th The Open

Royal Portrush Golf Club

2025년 열리는 153회 디오픈 개최지

로얄 포트러쉬 클럽

he R&A has announced that the 153rd Open Champi- Championship was held here for the ninth time in 2011,
Tonship in 2025 will be held again at Royal Portrush. and Lauren Taylor from Woburn Golf Club won the event.
Ireland Originally a 9-hole course in 1888, it was expanded to 18
holes the following year, with 8 of these holes initially
When the original Golf Club was formed in May 1888, it
laid out on the landward side of Causeway Road. Gradu-
was known as The County Club. In 1892, it was renamed
ally, the course moved further into the sand dunes, and
the Royal County Club when H.R.H. The Duke of York be-
in 1929, the renowned architect Harry Colt redesigned
came its patron. Three years later, in 1895, it was renamed
the Dunluce Links.
again to Royal Portrush Golf Club when H.R.H. The Prince
Royal Portrush has hosted more than sixty national
of Wales (later King Edward VII) became its patron.
championships, both British and Irish. The first profes-
In 1892, the Irish Open Amateur Championship was first
sional tournament ever held in Ireland was hosted by the
held here, and in 1907, the Irish Professional Champion-
club in 1895, and it was decided by match play, with the
ship took place. In 1895, Portrush became the first links
club's first professional, ‘Sandy’ Herd, emerging as the
course outside England to host the British Ladies Cham-
winner. During a golden period for Irish golf from 2010
pionship, which was won by Lady Margaret Scott. The
to 2012, Portrush-born Graeme McDowell became the
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