The Open Championship - Tournament Name

Tournament Name

In Britain the tournament is best known by its official title, The Open Championship. The tournament's website uses only this name, while British media generally refer to it as the Open (with "the" in lower case).

Outside the UK, the tournament is generally called the British Open, in part to distinguish the tournament from another of the four majors that has an 'open' format, the U.S. Open, but mainly because other nations with similar 'open' format golf events refer to their own nation's open event as "the Open". The PGA Tour refers to the tournament as the British Open, as do many media outlets in the United States, though U.S. television rights-holder ESPN has taken to referring to it as The Open Championship.