The Open helps cement business relationships like no other major sports event. For a start, time is on your side, with the sporting action and relaxed hospitality present throughout the day. This summer from 12 -19 July, The Open is back in St Andrews – the home of golf – and sales of tickets and increasingly-accessible hospitality packages are at record levels with a number of options already sold out.
Next month, the grandstand contractors start their work transforming the Old Course into the arena in which golf’s greatest players will compete. Three-time Champion Golfer of the Year Jack Nicklaus triumphed twice in the ‘Auld Grey Toun’ in 1970 and 1978 and once said ‘you need to be the champion at St Andrews if you are a player that will be remembered’. That is the challenge that faces Rory McIlroy and, were he to win in 2015, he would also become a back-to-back Champion following his victory last year at Royal Liverpool.
The Open Hospitality Programme is the only ticket and on-course hospitality provider approved by The R&A. No other company can offer facilities within the historic boundaries of the Old Course or guarantee tickets. The programme also pledges a proportion of profits go to local golf development projects providing an immediate legacy of the Championship for young people entering the sport.
Unique to St Andrews is a range of hospitality options in hotels that sit on the fairway edge, the Old Course Hotel that runs along the side of the 17th, and the Macdonald Rusacks Hotel next to the 18th. Hospitality packages range from £345 a head in The Champions Club to £899 in the Rocca restaurant next to the 18th hole.
Full details on Hospitality options at the 144TH Open can be found at TheOpen.com/Hospitality
