SANDWICH, England – According to various reports, The Open Championship will return to Royal Portrush in 2025, just six years after the championship was played on the Northern Ireland gem for the first time since 1951.
The reports say the R&A could make the announcement later this summer, and it was good news to the game’s most high-profile Northern Irishman.
“That’s great. That’s a lot sooner than I thought it would be there. That’s only six years with one of those years missed, last year, so that’s great,” said Rory McIlroy, who missed the cut when The Open was played at Royal Portrush in 2019 after making a quadruple bogey-8 on his first hole.