British Open Tickets

The 155th Open returns to St Andrews

The 155th Open Championship is played at St Andrews in Fife from 11 to 18 July 2027, with the four Championship days running Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 July. It is the 31st time the Old Course has staged golf’s original Championship, and the first since Cameron Smith’s win in front of record crowds at the 150th.

The event is officially titled The Open Championship. Most UK searches call it the British Open. They are the same Championship. Our Open Championship guide covers the history, the rota and what to expect as a spectator.

How to get British Open tickets

The R&A issues tickets through its own channels, and the Ticket Ballot has now closed. Where the ballot was unsuccessful, TicketsToSee holds independent course admission for all four Championship days at St Andrews, from £325 to £395 per person. Official hospitality and ticket-and-travel packages remain available directly from The Open.

TicketsToSee is an independent business. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or an official partner of The R&A, The Open or St Andrews Links, and we cannot confirm validity or admission on the organiser’s behalf. We source our availability independently through secondary market and supplier channels.

What British Open course admission covers

Course admission gives entry to the public spectator areas for a single Championship day. That covers the walking routes around the course, the spectator village, food and drink outlets, merchandise areas and the open viewing positions along the fairways and around the greens. It does not include reserved seating, hospitality or clubhouse access.

Thursday and Friday cover the first two rounds and the cut. Saturday is the third round. Sunday decides the Championship and carries the presentation of the Claret Jug. Prices rise across the week, from £325 on Thursday and Friday to £345 on Saturday and £395 on Sunday.

Official hospitality at St Andrews

The R&A operates a hospitality programme with guaranteed admission across the Championship days, and The Open Experiences handles ticket packages that combine official tickets with hotels and transfers. Both are arranged directly with the organiser rather than through us.

The 155th Open dates

Practice and Championship week runs 11 to 18 July 2027. The four Championship days are Thursday 15, Friday 16, Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 July 2027. Tee times, gate times and the daily Order of Play are published by the organiser closer to the event and should be checked before travelling.

Playing the Old Course at St Andrews

St Andrews is the oldest and most recognisable links in golf. The Old Course is defined by its shared fairways, vast double greens, the Swilcan Bridge and the Road Hole at 17. Wind off the North Sea changes club selection hour by hour, and firm links turf makes the ball run in ways it never would inland. For spectators, the low, open ground gives unusually wide views across several holes at once.

Future Open venues

The Championship rotates across a small group of links courses. After St Andrews in 2027, it moves to Royal Lytham & St Annes in 2028. The 154th was played at Royal Birkdale in July 2026.

What we do offer

TicketsToSee has arranged access to sold-out and hard-to-get events for over 20 years, with a private client team handling arrangements personally. Where we hold access, we show it on the relevant event page. For golf and other sporting occasions where we do carry inventory, see our golf tickets and sports tickets pages.

Experiencing The Open at St Andrews

The Open Championship is as much about how you experience it as the golf itself. St Andrews offers a setting where the Old Course unfolds across open, shared ground rather than behind ropes and grandstands, so a spectator’s day is shaped by the decisions they make on arrival. There is no single correct way to watch it, but there is a difference between drifting through a links course for six hours and planning a day that actually rewards the effort of being there.

Following a group or holding a position on the Old Course

Two approaches work, and they suit different people. Moving with a marquee group gives you the rhythm of a round as it is played — the recovery from a pot bunker, the long walk down a fairway shared with players coming the other way, the moment a leaderboard changes and the crowd reacts around you. It is the closest a spectator gets to the competition itself. The cost is distance covered, and by the back nine most people feel it.

Settling at one hole gives you something different: repetition, comparison, and the chance to watch how the entire field solves the same problem. The Old Course rewards this better than most venues. The 17th, the Road Hole, punishes the timid and the reckless in equal measure and will produce more drama over four days than any three holes elsewhere. The 18th, with the Swilcan Bridge behind it and the town at its shoulder, is the most recognisable closing hole in the sport. The double greens — where two flags share one enormous surface — turn ordinary approach play into something worth stopping for.

Attending The Open with guests or clients

If you are bringing people who do not follow golf closely, a fixed base changes the day entirely. Walking a links course in July weather, with no guaranteed seat and no shelter, is a long day for anyone attending out of politeness rather than interest. A structured base — somewhere to return to, sit down, eat properly and talk — lets guests dip into the golf on their own terms and come back when they have had enough. It is the difference between a day people endure and a day people remember.

The rhythm of an Open day

Championship golf runs on a longer clock than most sports. Play begins early and continues until the light goes, and the leaders are often on the course long after the first groups have finished. Mornings are quieter, and the ground is easier to move across. Afternoons build. If you want to see the contenders, the last two hours of a round carry the weight — but arriving early and leaving late is a fourteen-hour proposition, and few people sustain that across all four days.

Weather, wind and links conditions in Fife

St Andrews sits on the Fife coast, exposed to the North Sea, and the wind is not a footnote — it is the defining variable. A calm morning and a blustery afternoon are effectively two different golf courses, and the scoring reflects it. Dress for four seasons regardless of the forecast, wear footwear you can walk five miles in, and accept that rain arriving sideways is part of the character of the week rather than a disruption to it. The players plan around it. Spectators should too.

Flexibility across the Championship week

The best days are rarely the ones planned in rigid detail. Leaderboards move, groups get rearranged, and a hole that looked quiet at ten o’clock can be the most compelling place on the property by four. Leaving room to change your mind — to abandon a plan and follow something unfolding — is usually what separates a good day from a memorable one.

Taking in the occasion at the Home of Golf

There is also the part that has nothing to do with the golf. St Andrews is where the Championship began and where its history is thickest: the R&A clubhouse, the grey stone of the town running down to the first tee, the crowds on the closing holes late in the day. Give yourself time to stand still in it. The people who come away with the most from an Open week are usually the ones who spent part of it simply watching, rather than chasing.