Portrush, United Kingdom
Royal Portrush Golf Club
Royal Portrush began as the County Golf Club in May 1888. The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway supported its formation, linking golf with the town’s growing visitor trade.
- Courses
- 3 courses
Courses
Course design
Royal Portrush Golf Club history
A larger clubhouse opened in 1892, connected by telephone to the railway station and hotel. Royal patronage changed the Club’s name first to Royal County and then, in 1895, to Royal Portrush.
Championships
Results and dates 10 editions
The Senior Open Championship
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Brian Barnes
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Brian Barnes
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Gary Player
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Brian Huggett
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Christy O’Connor Jr
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Pete Oakley
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The Open Championship
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The 80th Open
Max Faulkner
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The 148th Open
Shane Lowry
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The 153rd Open
Scottie Scheffler
The Amateur Championship
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Iain Pyman
Sources and editorial notes8 references
Sources for this story
- Golf at the Heart of Portrush | Museum Exhibition Causeway Coast and Glens Museum Services
Institutional history and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Royal Portrush to feature two new holes for 148th Open in 2019
- The R&A
- The Open Records and Statistics The official Champion Golfers register directly enumerates this playing with ordinal, venue, and champion. Historical venue and champion spellings follow that register; any trailing parenthesized win count is occurrence metadata and is not part of the recorded winner name. The official Previous Opens decade record independently cross-checks the reviewed identity. Dates are null because the reviewed register does not state them, and no date was inferred.
- The Open: championship venues The official Open venue directory, historical guide, and named Course evidence bind this continuing venue identity. Historical routing and scoring conditions are not replaced by current scorecard values. Championship venue source: www.theopen.com; Club location source: www.theopen.com. The 2026 Royal Birkdale result is separately verified by the bound final-round report.
- The R&A: Championships and International Matches 1984–2012, edited by Peter N. Lewis PDF page 511, printed 510, 2004 entry: The Senior Open Championship.
- PGA TOUR: official 2006 Champions Tour media guide PGA TOUR 2006 guide PDF page 185 explicitly names Royal Portrush (Dunluce) for this edition.
- The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 1993, PDF pages 273–276. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.