“Sports” 2017 Open championship

The 2017 open championship was a men‘s major golf championship and the 146th open championship, held from 20-23 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in southport England. It was the tenth open championship at Royal birkdale, which held it’s first in  1954.           THE OPEN 146TH ROYAL BIRKDALE….                                      Dates:       20–23 July 2017.              Location:    Southport,England   Course:         Royal birkdal Golf      club.                                                   Organized by: The R & A.                Tour(s) :   European Tour.                                         PGA Tour.                                                   Japan Golf Tour.                    Length:  7,156 yards (6,543)                    field:    156 players, 77 after cut.            Cut:      145  (+5)

Jordan speith shot four rounds under 70 for a score of 268, three strokes ahead of runner-up

Matt kuchar

It was speith’s second wire–to–wire win at a major,  following  his 2015 masters win. In the third round, 

Branden Grace 

Scored 62  which set a new major championship record 

This was the first year that the prize money was paid in U. S. dollars, rather than British pounds .

Media

This was the second open championship televised domestically by Sky Sports. In the United States, to be televised by NBC ( golf channel’s parent network 

Venue 

The 2017 event is the tenth open championship played at the royal birkdale golf before 2017, the most recent  was in 2008 where Padraig Harrington successfully defended his 2007 title from carnoustie 

Field 

Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.