Royal Birkdale Golf Club · July 2026

Start an Open Championship
Pool

Run a golf pool for The Open Championship. Draft your golfers, share the pool with friends, and track live scoring and projected earnings as the world's best compete on links golf.

The Open Championship Leaderboard

Field announced ~1 week before the tournament. Live scoring goes live when play begins.

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Field announced ~1 week before the tournament tees off

How It Works

Set up a Open Championship pool, invite your group, and you're ready to go.

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Create Your Pool

Pick The Open Championship as your tournament, set your tiers, and share an invite code. Your pool is ready in under a minute.

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Everyone Picks Golfers

Players draft golfers from each tier before The Open Championship tees off. Pick favorites, stack sleepers, strategy is everything.

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Watch the Leaderboard

Scores update live. See everyone's picks ranked by total projected prize money. The best team wins the pool.

Why Run a Open Championship Pool on golfpools.co?

Live Scoring & Leaderboard

Follow every shot at Royal Birkdale Golf Club. Your pool leaderboard updates automatically with projected prize money so you always know where you stand.

Tiered Draft System

Golfers are organized into balanced tiers so every entry has a fair shot. Pick one from each tier and build the best Open Championship roster you can.

Invite Anyone in Seconds

Share an invite code with your group. No app download needed, everyone picks golfers and follows the leaderboard right from their phone or laptop.

Prize Money Scoring

Skip stroke-based math. Your team earns based on real projected prize money, the closer your golfers finish to the top, the more your team is worth.

About the Tournament

About The Open Championship

The Open Championship is the oldest tournament in golf, dating back to 1860. Held each July in the United Kingdom on a rotating set of links courses, it's the only major played on the traditional seaside terrain golf was invented on. Winners receive the Claret Jug, the most recognizable trophy in the sport. In 2026 The Open returns to Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, host of ten previous Opens including Padraig Harrington's 2008 win and Jordan Spieth's iconic 2017 victory.

Links golf is a completely different game from what tour pros play week to week in America: bouncy fairways, deep pot bunkers, wind that can change everything in a single hour, and weather that ranges from sunny to sideways rain by lunchtime. The Open often produces unexpected winners, players who think their way around the course rather than overpower it.

Quick Facts

Course
Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Location
Southport, England
Month
July 2026
Format
Stroke play, 4 rounds

Why You Should Host a Open Championship Pool

The marquee week of the season is more fun when your friends are watching with you.

The Group Chat Lights Up

Every birdie, every collapse, every Sunday charge becomes a shared moment. The Open Championship week becomes the most active your text thread is all year.

Even Non-Golfers Get Hooked

Pick a couple names, suddenly you're invested. People who normally tune out golf end up watching the back nine because their picks are in contention.

Sunday Becomes an Event

Open Championship Sunday goes from background TV to "you watching this?" texts every twenty minutes. Friendly stakes make every shot meaningful.

Five Minutes, No Spreadsheets

No formulas, no manual scoring, no chasing people for picks. Create a pool, share one link, watch the leaderboard update itself in real time.

The Open is the most weather-dependent major in golf, which makes for the most unpredictable leaderboards. A pool here can be wide open through Sunday. Your back-nine sleeper might just be the player who handled a Friday storm best. That unpredictability makes the leaderboard fun to track all four days.

Early-morning UK tee times make it the perfect summer weekend pool. Friends can wake up to live scores, set up the broadcast around early afternoon Eastern, and have a winner crowned by mid-afternoon, leaving the rest of the Sunday open. With one click to invite, free for everyone to join, and live prize money tracking, it's the easiest way to turn The Open into a shared experience instead of solo TV watching.

Ready for
The Open Championship?

Set up your Open Championship pool in under a minute. Invite your group and compete for bragging rights.