The host courses for The Open Championship for the next three years have been determined. Here we will take a look at each venue, including the previous years in which the course hosted The Open and who won the tournament each year, beginning with the most recent:
2019: Royal Portrush
The Open was held at Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, for just the second time and the first time in more than half a century. The Republic of Ireland’s Shane Lowry won his first major golf championship here in 2019 with a 6-shot margin of victory. Englishman Max Faulkner won his first and only major at Royal Portrush in 1951, when he was 3-under for the tournament.
2019: Shane Lowry
1951: Max Faulkner
2020: Royal St. George's
For the 15th time in the history of The Open Championship, Royal St. George's Golf Club in Kent, England, will host the major in 2020. It was the first English course to host The Open and it has been a familiar host for Tour players in the last century-plus, even despite a 32-year break from 1949 to 1981.
The last time Royal St. George's hosted The Open was in 2011, when Darren Clarke won in his 20th start in the major – four more attempts than the previously held record for most appearances at The Open by a golfer before his first win. He won by three strokes over Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.
2011: Darren Clarke
2003: Ben Curtis
1993: Greg Norman
1985: Sandy Lyle
1981: Bill Rogers
1949: Bobby Locke
1938: Reg Whitcombe
1934: Henry Cotton
1928: Walter Hagen
1922: Walter Hagen
1911: Harry Vardon
1904: Jack White
1899: Harry Vardon
1894: John Henry Taylor
2021: St. Andrews
2021 will mark the 30th time the legendary St. Andrews Links has hosted The Open.
The Open Championship has returned to Fife, Scotland, roughly every three to six years since the 1870s for one of the most unique challenges on the PGA Tour. Tiger and Jack have both won there twice.
2015: Zach Johnson
2010: Louis Oosthuizen
2005: Tiger Woods
2000: Tiger Woods
1995: John Daly
1990: Nick Faldo
1984: Seve Ballesteros
1978: Jack Nicklaus
1970: Jack Nicklaus
1964: Tony Lema
1960: Kel Nagle
1957: Bobby Locke
1955: Peter Thomson
1946: Sam Sned
1939: Dick Burton
1933: Denny Shute
1927: Bobby Jones
1921: Jock Hutchison
1910: James Braid
1905: James Braid
1900: John Henry Taylor
1895: John Henry Taylor
1891: Hugh Kirkaldy
1888: Jack Burns
1885: Bob Martin
1882: Willie Fernie
1879: Jamie Anderson
1876: Bob Martin
1873: Tom Kidd
2022: Royal Liverpool
Royal Liverpool will play host to its 13th Open when the Championship returns to the famous port city in 2022. This will be the third Open held at the course since 2006.
2014: Rory McIlroy
2006: Tiger Woods
1967: Robert De Vicenzo
1956: Peter Thomson
1947: Fred Daly
1936: Alf Padgham
1930: Bobby Jones
1924: Walter Hagen
1913: J.H. Taylor
1907: Arnaud Massy
1902: Sandy Herd
1897: Harold Hilton