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Open Golf Corporate Hospitality for The Open Championship 2017 – Royal Birkdale, Southport
Thursday 20th July – Sunday 23rd July 2017
The Open Golf Championship is one of four major golf tournaments held over the year. It’s the longest running and the only Championship to be held outside of the United States. With it being a major it attracts the world’s most elite golfers, all trying to get their hands on the massive prize fund and the very prestigious claret jug. VIP Event Butler offer very luxurious Open Golf Corporate Hospitality facilities that you and your guests can enjoy. This will make your day at the Open Championship one to remember.
Traditionally held on the weekend of the third Friday in July, it is the 3rd major to take place in the calendar year. It takes place on one of nine links golf course in Scotland or England, these courses are:
- The Old Course St Andrews (last held in 2015)
- Carnoustie Golf Links (last held in 2007)
- Turnberry (last held in 2009)
- Royal Troon (last held in 2016)
- Royal St Georges (last held 2011)
- Royal Birkdale (last held 2008-scheduled for 2017)
- Royal Lytham and St Annes (last held 2012)
- Royal Liverpool (last held 2014)
In 2013, Muirfield, located in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland, held the Open Championships for the 16th time. At the 2015 Open Championships, St. Andrews Golf Club in Scotland had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic tournament as Zach Johnson triumphed over the competition.
Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, which held 2014’s Open Championship, is known for its development of amateur golf as it hosted the Amateur Championship. Nevertheless, the Open Championship has been won at Hoylake by 3 different amateur players with the most notable players being members of Hoylake, John Ball and Harold Hilton. The other amateur who has won the Open at Hoylake was Bobby Jones, who in 1930 managed to win the other majors available to him at the time.
The Open was first played in 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland, where it was restricted to just 8 professional golfers who played for The Challenge Belt and no prize money. The Open now has a field of around seventy professional golfers, who qualify based on their performances in the previous season and world ranking. Some Amateur golfers and regional Professionals try and qualify for The Open by playing in local, national and international tournaments held all over the world.
In 2014, Phil Mickelson was defending his Open title, yet he could not stop Rory McIlroy, from playing an extraordinary game of golf. McIlroy did not travel to the St Andrews golf club in 2015, after a severe ankle injury just two weeks before the tournament. Though many expected Jordan Spieth to emerge victorious, he could not quite get over the line in the end, leaving fellow American Zach Johnson as The Open Champion 2015. Louis Oosthuizen finished a close second over the four-hole playoff, while Australian Marc Leishman fell away in the same playoff.
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