The 153rd Open Championship begins Thursday at Royal Portrush. USA Network and Peacock will have wall-to-wall live coverage from Portrush, Northern Ireland, including these featured groups (all times EDT): Click here for the full tee times from the opening round of the men’s final major of the season.

Royal Portrush is the venue for the 153rd Open Championship, which gets underway on Thursday, and it’s a course that the Irish duo of Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry know very well. Northern Irishman McIlroy played the course as a kid, having grown up just ...

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As the best players in the world prepare for this 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush, it’s important to note just how different Irish golf – and particularly this one – is from those classic Scottish or English rota courses.

This is about the Open, a championship in its 153rd year. And it’s about Portrush, a seasonal town of 6,000 or so, one with a Ferris wheel and a long swath of beach, and dogs off leashes, and a gem of a links course that’s carved its place in the Open rota. And it’s about Irish golf.

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Royal Portrush is not only open to visitors, but its yearly membership dues are what the average American golfer spends on public tee times.