Cameron Smith will return as defending champion in The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool, solely dwell from July 20-23 on Sky Sports activities Golf; the Champion Golfer of the Yr will obtain the very best quantity within the event's historical past Final Up to date: 12/07/23 10:40am Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible …
Final Up to date: 12/07/23 10:40am
The ready is sort of over for the ultimate males’s main of the 12 months, with round the clock protection from The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool dwell from July 20-23 on Sky Sports activities Golf
The ready is sort of over for the ultimate males’s main of the 12 months, with round the clock protection from The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool dwell from July 20-23 on Sky Sports activities Golf
The winner of the 151st Open Championship will obtain a file $3m (£2.3m) in prize cash, the R&A has introduced.
The primary prize is $500,000 (£387k) greater than Cameron Smith obtained for being topped Champion Golfer of the Yr at St Andrews final July, whereas the runner-up this 12 months in Hoylake will earn $1.7m (£1.31m).
The R&A additionally introduced that the overall prize fund for the 2023 contest at Royal Liverpool, solely dwell from July 20-23 on Sky Sports activities, has additionally elevated by 18 per cent to $16.5m.
One of the best of the motion from an exciting remaining spherical of The one hundred and fiftieth Open Championship final summer time from St Andrews
Martin Slumbers, CEO of The R&A, mentioned, “Our purpose is to make sure The Open stays on the pinnacle of world golf and we’ve got virtually doubled the prize fund since 2016.
“Whereas we’re seeing substantial will increase in prize cash throughout the lads’s skilled recreation, we’re fulfilling our wider obligation to the game by elevating the AIG Girls’s Open, strengthening pathways within the elite beginner recreation and inspiring extra folks all over the world to play golf.
The Champion Golfer of the Yr will obtain the very best quantity in The Open’s historical past
“We consider that getting this steadiness proper is significant to the long-term way forward for the game.”
The Masters had an $18m prize purse for the 2023 contest, with champion Jon Rahm accumulating $3.24m, whereas Brooks Koepka claimed $3.15m of a complete $17.5m fund when he gained the PGA Championship at Oak Hill in Might.
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The US Open has the most important prize purse of the 4 males’s majors, seeing Wyndham Clark take dwelling $3.6m of the $20m on supply in Los Angeles final month, with $20m the identical purse the PGA Tour has been providing for the elevated occasions within the 2022-23 season.
Sky Sports activities could have round the clock protection from The Open, dwell from July 20-23, with 80 hours of dwell programming throughout the event week and a bunch of additional programming accessible to take pleasure in.
Wall-to-wall protection will start from 6.30am for the primary two event days on Thursday July 20 and Friday July 21, forward of the opening tee shot at 6.35am, with the motion dwell till 9pm for every of the opening two rounds.
A glance again at a number of the greatest moments from The Open Zone over the course of The one hundred and fiftieth Open Championship at St Andrews
Day three protection begins at 9am and runs by way of till after the motion is completed, with early play dwell on the purple button as ‘Saturday at The Open’ affords updates from the course alongside shot centre challenges, particular friends, enjoyable options and far more, whereas the identical providing stars from 8am for Sunday’s remaining spherical.
There’s additionally a lot of further protection accessible all through every day through the purple button on Sky Sports activities Golf, together with Sky Q and Sky Glass, with Featured Teams and Featured Gap feeds accessible to take pleasure in because the world’s greatest gamers deal with Royal Liverpool.
Watch The 151st Open all through the week solely dwell on Sky Sports activities. Reside protection of the opening spherical begins on Thursday July 20 from 6.30am on Sky Sports activities Golf.
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