2011 British Open TV Schedule and Tournament Notes

THE 2011 BRITISH OPEN, the 140th edition of golf’s oldest major, gets underway on Thursday at Royal St. George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England. Louis Oosthuizen defends in an international field of 156 players.


Purse: $7.3 million
Winner’s share: $1,305,593
Defending champion: Louis Oosthuizen


The field
Tee times
Player profiles
Course overview
Open Championship news
The Claret Jug
Past champions
Royal St. George’s website

2011 British Open Leaderboard


TV SCHEDULE

There will be lots of live TV coverage of the 2011 British Open.

United States

Thu, July 14
ESPN 4 AM-6 PM ET

Fri, July 15
ESPN 4 AM-6 PM ET

Sat, July 16
ESPN 7 AM-2:30 PM ET

Sun, July 17
ESPN 6 AM-1:30 PM ET

United Kingdom

Thursday 14 July
BBC Two, HD, Red Button and online (0900-2000)
Highlights - BBCi (2000-2030)

Friday 15 July
BBC Two, HD, Red Button and online (0900-2000)
Highlights - BBCi 2000-2030

Saturday 16 July
BBC One, HD, Red Button and online (1000-1200)
BBC One, HD, Red Button and online (1210-1715)
BBC Two, HD, Red Button and online (1715-1900)

Sunday 17 July
BBC Two, HD, Red Button and online (1100-1245)
BBC One, HD, Red Button and online (1245-1900)

Canada

Thu, July 14
TSN 4 AM-1 AM ET

Fri, July 15
TSN 4 AM-1 AM ET

Sat, July 16
TSN 7 AM- 4 AM ET

Sun, July 17
TSN 6 AM-3 AM ET

Australia

(Australian TV times via Aussie Golfer.)

Thu, July 15
Fox Sports 6 PM-4 AM

Fri, July 16
Fox Sports 6 PM-4 AM

Sat, July 17
Fox Sports 7 PM-4 AM

Sun, July 18
Fox Sports 8 PM-4 AM


−The Armchair Golfer

(Photo: Courtesy of Richard Carter, Flickr, Creative Commons license)

The Open Makes 14th Visit to Royal St. George’s

By Landmark Media International

THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP RETURNS to Royal St. George’s Golf Club this week, the only venue in southern England for golf’s most prestigious major championship. This is the 14th occasion the historic links at Sandwich has welcomed the Open—it was the first venue outside of Scotland to host an Open, in 1894—placing Kent, known as The Garden of England, in the world golfing spotlight.

(Photo: The 1st tee, with clubhouse in background, at Royal St. George’s)

Previous winners of the Open Championship at Royal St. George’s include Greg Norman (1993), Sandy Lyle (1985) and golfing legend Walter Hagen (1922 and 1928). American Ben Curtis was the winner of the most recent Open Championship at Sandwich, in 2003.

The club has made changes to the bunkering on its 18th hole to make it more demanding for the Open Championship, as well as adding five new tees and 100 yards of length to the course.

Royal St George’s Golf Club forms part of Kent’s “Regal Golf Coast,” which includes Royal Cinque Ports (venue of the Open Championship in 1909 and 1920), Prince’s (the Open venue in 1932), Littlestone (a Final Qualifying course for the 2011 Open) and North Foreland. Overall there are more than 100 golf courses in the county, which also features modern classics such as London Golf Club (a European Tour Destination and home of the 2009 European Open) and Chart Hills (designed by Sir Nick Faldo and ranked 82nd in Golf World magazine’s Top 100 Courses in the UK and Ireland).

“In many ways, there is an argument to say the Open should come down this way slightly more often than elsewhere because we are the only one in the south,” Royal St George’s Secretary Christopher Gabbey told Kent Golf magazine. “It means a lot to the county. When the Open is in your neck of the woods, it’s terrific.”

More than 200,000 spectators are expected to descend on the Kent coast during Open week, with tens of thousands more from the UK and nearby European countries anticipated to take golf breaks in the county in the months before and after the event.

(Photo: Courtesy of Landmark Media International)