{"id":305464,"date":"2025-12-08T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305464\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:15:09","slug":"open-championship-2028-moved-to-avoid-clash-with-los-angeles-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305464\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Championship 2028 moved to avoid clash with Los Angeles Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The R&amp;A is moving The Open championship in 2028 to avoid clashing with the Los Angeles Olympics golf tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the Olympic golfing medals being decided between 19-29 July, the 156th staging of golf&#8217;s oldest major has been shunted back from its traditional slot in the third week of July to 3-6 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The men&#8217;s Senior Open will take place from 10-13 August, with the Women&#8217;s Open being held from 17-20 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Providing clarity on the dates now will assist with the planning of the global golf calendar in 2028,&#8221; said R&amp;A chief executive Mark Darbon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Open will be returning to its normal mid-July dates in 2029.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The venues for all three major championships in 2028 will be confirmed at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The R&amp;A is moving The Open championship in 2028 to avoid clashing with the Los Angeles Olympics golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-305464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}