The attendance for this year’s 152nd Open at Royal Troon will be 250,000, which represents a huge 77,000 increase from the 2016 event at the Ayrshire venue. It means the crowd for the July 18-21 event – its tenth staging at Royal Troon – will be the biggest for the world’s oldest major outside St Andrews, where 290,000 fans attended the 2022 edition. “It is a big increase and I think there’s been a huge amount done to try and make sure that the number we bring in is what the golf course can... Read this story
