THE OPEN Championship Live

£4,800,000 is the prize purse for the next European Tour event, The Open Championship, which is now in its 139^th year and will be played this year in Fife, Scotland at the Old Course at Saint Andrews. This European Tour event will feature a terrific field and will be joined in July by the Nordea Scandinavian Masters, the 3 Irish Open and the Barclays Scottish Open. You can watch this event live from your computer by getting your membership at any of the banners on this page for access to high quality video right from your computer. The tournament is July 15^th through the 18^th.

The Old Course at Saint Andrews is the oldest golf course in the world, established in 1552. It's an 18 hole course that is rated a Par 72, and is 6,387 yards long. The course is nicknamed Saint Andrews, but the actual name is the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of Saint Andrews. As for this tournament, the first place winner will walk away with €1,011,840 while second gets €595,200. Third place gets €380,928 and the fourth place winner or winners will take home a big check for €297,600. Fifth is a prize of €238,080.

Let's take a look at the Race to Dubai rankings right now. Graeme McDowell is sitting in first place with €1,924,1842 won so far, while Ernie Els from South Africa takes second place. Third place in the Race to Dubai is Charl Schwartzel and Ian Poulter is in fourth. Lee Westwood is in fifth for England and Miguel Angel Jimenez is in sixth place. You can watch this European Tour event by getting your membership at the banners on this page, for high quality video access right from your computer from anywhere in the world.

Posted: 16th Jul 2009

The British Open, also called The Open Championship is the oldest major and the only major that isn't played in the U.S. It's July 16^th through the 19^th this year, and will be hosted at Turnberry in South Ayrshire, Scotland. This beautiful resort's Ailsha Course is where the golfers will be competed, the Open coming back to Turnberry after being gone since 1994. Nick Price was the big winner that year, finishing at eleven under par, a feat some say was only possible because Tiger Woods was still a teenager finishing high school at that point.

Of course, Tiger didn't have the chance to prove anything last year either, after injuring himself during the season. Fans claim that had Woods been competing in the tournament fifteen years ago he certainly would have won and Woods will be competing this year, hopefully determined to prove just that. The course has gone through several changes since the tournament in '94, lengthened by 250 yards, and marking the addition of the 17^th hole, which is a challenging Par 5, now with another sixty yards added to it. The sixteenth hole is also nearly fifty yards longer and has a sharp right turn throughout the hole.

The tournament has a history of being difficult but last year was harder than most. The second place finisher was Ian Poulter, who had a score that wouldn't have made the cut in most PGA events. His score was seven over, while Padraig Harrington actually won the tournament, with a score of three over par. Tiger Woods will be looking to stop Harrington's string of Open Championship wins and you can see if he can do it, right here on www.watchlivegolf.com. Don't miss the Open Championship, or British Open if you prefer, July 16^th through the 19^th.