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.

Newcomers to The Open will encounter a bandwagon of would-be corporate hospitality hosts but 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.

The Open Hospitality Programme offers a wide range of corporate hospitality options from on-course private chalets through fine-dining course perimeter hotel suites and bistro style catering in the increasingly popular Champions Club. Located next to the 16^th fairway on the Old Course, The Champions Club is making its first appearance in St Andrews. Introduced at Hoylake, it combines admission ticket, Spectator Village location, exclusive entertainment and all-day hospitality. Dining is informal so patrons are free to come and go as they please to relax and refuel throughout the day. Club facilities include a private garden complete with live TV on a giant screen, constantly updating leaderboard displays and a competitive long putt challenge.

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 17^th, and the Macdonald Rusacks Hotel next to the 18^th. Hospitality packages range from £345 a head in The Champions Club to £899 in the Rocca restaurant next to the 18^th hole.

For further details, please contact our team or visit www.TheOpen.com/Hospitality

T: +44 (0)844 381 0546
E: Hospitality@TheOpen.com