The 2028 Open Championship was awarded to England’s Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Membership on Monday.
The official announcement from the R&A way Scotland’s Trump Turnberry should wait till at the very least 2029 to host the Open.
“Turnberry remains to be in our considering,” R&A CEO Mark Darbon mentioned Monday at Royal Birkdale Golf Membership throughout media day for this 12 months’s Open Championship in July.
Turnberry final hosted the Open in 2009, 5 years earlier than the Trump Group — guardian firm of U.S. President Donald Trump’s actual property portfolio — bought the property for $60 million.
Turnberry, which additionally hosted the main championship in 1977, 1986 and 1994, has undergone a reported $200 million in renovations and upgrades since becoming a member of the Trump umbrella, in response to Entrance Workplace Sports activities. Trump’s sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, have been accountable for the day-to-day operations of the Trump Group since 2017.
Attendance on the 2009 Open at Turnberry was an estimated 123,000 followers, far beneath the 200,000-plus widespread at lots of the different venues in rotation.
“We actually just like the golf course,” Darbon mentioned Monday. “We all know that there are some logistical challenges that relate to staging a contemporary Open Championship there primarily off the course–road, rail, and lodging infrastructure. We have got a extremely good dialogue with the membership and its possession, fairly clear dialogue there.”
Stewart Cink defeated 59-year-old Tom Watson in a four-hole playoff to win the Open at Turnberry in 2009.
Royal Lytham & St Annes has hosted the Open Championship 11 occasions since 1926, most not too long ago in 2012 when South Africa’s Ernie Els defeated Adam Scott by one stroke.
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