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BBC News
2 days ago
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BBC Sport secures multi-year rights deal to The AIG Women's Open
BBC Sport has signed a new multi-year agreement with The R&A, securing broadcast rights for The AIG Women's Open from 2025 to 2027. The deal guarantees free-to-air access for UK audiences, with coverage spanning radio commentary and coverage on Radio 5 Live, 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds, digital clips across the BBC Sport website, app, and social media platforms as well as TV highlights on BBC Two and iPlayer. The 2025 championship begins on Thursday 31 July at Royal Porthcawl, where BBC Sounds will provide full uninterrupted commentary from the first tee shot to the final putt on Sunday evening. Golf correspondent Iain Carter leads the commentary which can also be followed through the live pages of the BBC Sport website/app. Digital highlights will be available on the BBC Sport website/app and the BBC's social platforms. The TV highlights, presented by Sarah Mulkerrins, will showcase the best of the championship each day on BBC Two and iPlayer. Alex Kay-Jelski, Director of BBC Sport says, 'This deal is another great addition to BBC Sport's portfolio of women's sport. The Women's Open is a standout event in the golfing calendar, and we're bringing the action direct to audiences with coverage across TV, 5 Live and the BBC Sport website/app and socials. It's a chance to showcase not just a world-class competition, but the players and stories that make this event so compelling.' Mark Darbon, Chief Executive of The R&A, said, 'Millions of viewers will be able to enjoy the BBC's excellent coverage of the AIG Women's Open and watch and listen to the world's best women's players in action. We are delighted to be continuing our partnership with the BBC and to be working with them to promote women's golf to a wider audience.' The announcement follows last week's news that BBC Sport has also secured rights to broadcast The Open, reaffirming its long-standing commitment to showcasing the very best of golf to UK audiences. BBC Sport's summer of women's sport has been bigger than ever, featuring the Women's Rugby World Cup, UEFA Women's Euro 2025, Wimbledon, The Hundred, international women's cricket highlights, the World Athletics Championships. BBC Sounds (Sports Extra 3) Schedule: Thursday 31 July – 7am-7pm Friday 1 August – 7am-7pm Saturday 2 August – 11am-close of play Sunday 3 August – 11am-close of play CF Follow For More
BBC News
17-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
BBC Sport secures rights deal to The Open to 2027
BBC Sport has signed a new multi-year agreement with The R&A, securing broadcasting rights for The Open from 2025 to 2027. The deal includes radio commentaries across 5 Live and BBC Sounds, TV highlights and digital clips on the BBC Sport website, app and social media platforms, ensuring that audiences across the UK can continue to enjoy free to air access to one of the most prestigious major championships in the global golfing calendar. Kicking off the new agreement is coverage of the 153rd Open at Royal Portrush from 17-20 July. Fans will be able to enjoy 38 hours of live coverage of the Championship across Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds. Live coverage starts with the first tee shot in 5 Live Breakfast on the Thursday, culminating with the final putt on Sunday evening. Highlights and key moments will also be available as digital clips on the BBC Sport website, app, and social media platforms, helping fans stay across all the action The 5 live golf team is in Portrush across the week to provide previews, analysis plus the commentary of all four days of the Championship. Correspondent Iain Carter will lead the coverage, with Mark Chapman and Colin Murray presenting from inside the ropes within touching distance of the world's best players. Alongside in-depth radio coverage and digital clips will be TV Highlights from Royal Portrush, capturing the best of the action from the 153rd Open Championship. Sarah Mulkerrins leads the onsite TV team alongside Rishi Persad, with an expert commentary line-up featuring Andrew Cotter and Ken Brown. Audiences will be able to see all the important shots and drama alongside insight from 'Ken on the Course' and end-of-play analysis. Fans can also follow live digital text coverage on the BBC Sport Website and the app. Alex Kay-Jelski, Director of BBC Sport, says: "This is a fantastic deal that ensures audiences can continue to enjoy the very best of The Open across BBC Sport. It's an iconic moment in the sporting calendar, and BBC Sport will bring the drama and stories to life on TV, iPlayer, Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and online." Mark Darbon, Chief Executive of The R&A, says: 'Extending our long-standing partnership with BBC Sport is incredibly important in ensuring that the drama and excitement of these historic championships will continue to be enjoyed by millions of viewers throughout the UK. 'The Open sits at the heart of the great British sporting summer and the BBC's extensive radio, television and digital coverage will mean that the compelling stories from the Championship are shared with existing fans as well as inspiring new ones.' BBC Sport's extensive rights portfolio includes this summer's Women's UEFA Euros 2025 and Women's Rugby World Cup 2025, as well as the Olympic Games, Wimbledon Championships, FA Cup, Men's UEFA Euro 2028, Men's FIFA World Cups and Match of the Day (Premier League and Champions League highlights), Six Nations and Rugby Super League. CF Follow for more
BBC News
14-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Welcome to Portrush
The best golfers in the world have descended on the Northern Irish town of Portrush for the 153rd Open years after Shane Lowry lifted the famous Claret Jug on the Dunluce course, one of the world's biggest sporting events is back on the north coast of Northern page will be your dedicated resource for everything from the Open Championship as BBC Sport takes you through every twist and turn in the crowning of 2025's 'Champion Golfer of the Year'.Alongside our live radio and text coverage throughout the week, we'll aim to bring you some of the press conferences from the likes of Rory McIlroy and defending champion Xander Schauffele alongside expert analysis from our golf correspondent Iain Carter and reporters on the course.
BBC News
12-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
US Open round one: McIlroy, Rose and Lowry among early starters
Update: Date: 12:13 BST Title: First round pins Content: The USGA have come out swinging today - look at some of these pins clinging to the edge of the greens. Good luck everyone! Update: Date: 12:10 BST Title: Watch: McIlroy practises at Oakmont Content: McIlroy, Lowry, Rose (12:40 BST) This video can not be played Watch: Rory McIlroy on the practice range ahead of the US Open Update: Date: 12:10 BST Title: 'This course challenges your sanity' - why Oakmont is toughest US Open test Content: Iain CarterBBC golf correspondent at Oakmont Pittsburgh, America's historic steel city also famed for coal mining, is known as a hub for hard industrial labour. And these qualities extend to its most famed golf course. There are few, if any, tougher more uncompromising tests than Oakmont Country Club, the home of this week's US Open. This is a place where players have to roll up their sleeves and get on with it despite the golfing environment's stark harshness. Defending champion Bryson DeChambeau summed it up for his legion of YouTube followers when he said: "This course doesn't just challenge your game, it challenges your sanity." This is the latest in a long line of observations about a course that will stage the US Open for a record 10th time, starting on Thursday. Seven-time major winner Gene Sarazen started the trend when he said Oakmont possesses "all the charm of a sock to the head". The US Open is meant to be the toughest test and of all the courses that stage the United States' national championship, this appears the toughest. It is the ultimate US Open venue. Read more Update: Date: 12:09 BST Title: Today's tee times Content: Masters champion Rory McIlroy will play the opening two rounds of this week's US Open alongside European Ryder Cup team-mates Justin Rose and Shane Lowry. The trio will start round one from the 10th hole at 12:40 BST on Thursday, 12 June and then tackle the Oakmont Country Club course from hole one in Friday's second round from 18:25. McIlroy, who ended his major drought by beating Englishman Rose in a play-off to complete the career Grand Slam at Augusta National in April, won his solitary US Open in 2011. Rose claimed his only major title at the 2013 US Open. World number one Scottie Scheffler is on the opposite side of the draw. He will tee off in Thursday's opening round at 18:25 from the first hole, and 12:40 from the 10th on Friday. Here are a selection of the early tee-off times on Thursday. Starting from hole one (all times BST) 12:18 Keegan Bradley (US), Harris English (US), Tommy Fleetwood (Eng) 12:29 Jose Luis Ballester (Spa), Bryson DeChambeau (US), Xander Schauffele (US) 12:40 Wyndham Clark (US), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng), Gary Woodland (US) 12:51 Akshay Bhatia (US), Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Matt McCarty (US) Starting from hole 10 12:18 Ludvig Aberg (Swe), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Adam Scott (Aus) 12:40 Shane Lowry (Ire), Rory McIlroy (NI), Justin Rose (Eng) 12:51 Patrick Cantlay (US), Lucas Glover (US), Si-Woo Kim (Kor) 13:02 Brian Harman (US), Phil Mickelson (US), Cameron Smith (Aus) Update: Date: 12:04 BST Title: Welcome to the US Open! Content: Hello golf fans and welcome to the third major of the year and the toughest test of the lot, as the world's best take on the fearsome Oakmont in the 125th US Open. World number one Scottie Scheffler is the biggest betting favourite to win this since Tiger Woods as he arrives as the US PGA champion in red-hot form, but he has a host of challengers lining up to take him on. Defending champion Bryson DeChambeau is his chief opposition, Jon Rahm knows all about winning the US Open and Xander Schauffele is always there or thereabouts. Scheffler's biggest challenge though will be Oakmont itself, and in particular its thick, gnarly rough that will result in some big numbers and some of the best players in the world being made to look rather foolish. Let the carnage begin!
