ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — The British Open Championship will probably be postponed by two weeks to 2028 to keep away from battle with the Los Angeles Olympics, giving golf’s oldest championship its newest begin since 1893.
The British Open will probably be held on a hyperlinks course from August 3 to six, 2028, however no announcement has been made but.
The Olympics, which will probably be held in Los Angeles for the third time, will probably be held from July 14th to thirtieth. That basically falls into the everyday timeframe of the British Open Championship. The newest Olympic competitors in Paris 2024 was held from July 26 to August 11, permitting the British Open to take care of its conventional place on the calendar.
The Open has been held each July since 1936. The final event to complete after July was Prestwick in 1893, the 12 months Harry Vardon made his Open debut.
Males’s golf’s different three main tournaments are unaffected, however the PGA Tour will seemingly must make changes towards the top of the FedEx Cup season. The tour is at present contemplating a brand new mannequin for 2027 and past.
In the meantime, the R&A has additionally moved the Girls’s Open Championship from August 22 to 25 in 2024 to August 17 to twenty in 2028 because of the Paris Olympics. The Senior Open Championship will probably be held from August tenth to thirteenth, taking its place one week after the British Open.
The Related Press contributed to this text.
