The British Open also known as The Open is the only major golf tournament that is held out of the United States of America, the other three majors are The US Open, The Masters Open, and The PGA Championship. The British Open is the oldest golf tournament in the world; its history is spanned over 159 years; short after the golf was invented. Although it does not offer the highest purse even than it the most favorite event for the professional golfers. The Masters and The Open are dubbed as the best golf tournaments all over the world; it is a dream of every professional golfer to just participate in any of these major tournaments, let alone winning.
The last edition of The British Open held at 71 under par Royal Portrush Golf Club Dunluce Links, Northern Ireland. Shane Lowry won the tournament with a margin of six strokes and lifted his maiden major trophy. Before this, his best performance in any major tournament was second place in the US Open tournament. Ireland born Shane, did this by finishing 67-67-63-72 in four days. Defending champion Francesco Molinari finished at 11th position, Brooks Koeopka’s final score was 278; six under par.
The next edition of the Open tournament is going to be held on July 16 to July 19, 2020, in Sandwich, England at Royal St George Golf Club. This is a seventy par course and is considered a difficult golf club with deep bankers and less par-five holes. The field will remain the same as 156 players will be playing in The Open tournament next year. Its prize money will remain the same; around 11 million US dollars.
Next year, a lot of the past champions will be participating to win the title and around two million us dollars, the top players in this list are:
Brooks Koepka: World number one professional golfer with a lot of major victories; especially won 4 major tournaments in 23 months.
Tiger Woods: One of the greatest golfers of all time, he has won 15 major tournaments, 3 British Open and 5 The Masters open wins, current world number five golfer.
Phil Mickelson: 5 Major wins and huge experience of more than years in professional golf.
Dustin Johnson: World number two professional golfer, he has won The US Open tournament.
Rory Mcllroy: Current world number three professional golfer with 5 major victories.
Justin Rose: Current world number 3 professional golfer.
Francesco Molinari: Current world number six professional golfer, he has won the golf world cup in 2009. He has also won The Open golf tournament in the past.
Prediction:
Among these top golfers, Brooks Koepka has more chances to win the Open 2020 championship. After Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Francesco Molinari are two other big names who have almost equal chances to lift the trophy. Rory McIlroy also belongs to the same group of top dogs.