Perhaps even more astonishing than the way Jordan Spieth won the British Open at Royal Birkdale is what followed.

Royal Birkdale has been a regular in the British Open for the last 70 years.

The PGA Tour season is still seeking definition.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are out of the PGA Championship as expected.

The Masters is moving away from inviting PGA Tour fall winners and now will invite the winners of six national opens around the world.

Bryson DeChambeau was among the players receiving a personal message from American Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley at Royal Portrush this week.

Former U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark says he wants to make good for damaging a locker at Oakmont.

The British Open at Royal Portrush has had its first hole-in-one.

There's been a big change at the British Open that has caddies and players perplexed.

Tyrrell Hatton is a combustible English golfer who can divide opinion with his on-course conduct.

Rory McIlroy shot 1-under 70 in the first round of the British Open at Royal Portrush that is also serving as a homecoming for the Northern Irish star.

Fickle weather and funny bounces are classic features of links golf and it makes the British Open a test of the mind as much as anything else.

The oldest major championship has taken a step into the modern world by using a technological feature that British Open organizers hope will bring to life one of the most storied walks in golf.

The British Open at Royal Portrush had a little bit of everything in the opening round.

Rory McIlroy is back at Royal Portrush and feeling plenty of love as the Masters champion.

Chris Gotterup gets to spend an extra week on links golf after winning the biggest title of his career.

The British Open returns to Royal Portrush and it should be quite the homecoming for Rory McIlroy.

Harris English is in the United Kingdom for two big weeks without his caddie.

Sam Hutsby felt he was dreaming when his name was announced on the first tee at the British Open.

Tiger Woods had another disappointing round at a major championship.

Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau were the protagonists from Pinehurst No. 2.

Royal Troon has some unique aspects but maybe most curious is the private house that sits in the middle of the championship course and has views of five holes for the British Open starting Thursday.

Rory McIlroy got plenty of text messages after his late collapse at the U.S. Open last month.

The British Open is raising its prize money, but not by much.

Robert MacIntyre is an Open champion in his native Scotland.

There’s a golfer hailing from America’s south and with a passion for hunting who is running away with the British Open thanks to precise driving and a red-hot putter.

Emiliano Grillo has rolled in a birdie putt from 51 feet at No. 18 to take a share of the lead at the British Open on 5-under par.

Tommy Fleetwood has experience of seeing a wave of support carry a home favorite all the way to the claret jug.

Some LIV Golf players have arrived for the British Open facing the prospect of playing in a major for the last time because of the uncertain future in golf.

Rory McIlroy is laying low in his quest to end nine years without winning a major.

Matthew Jordan has been given the honor of hitting the first tee shot at the 151st British Open and he’ll know exactly where to put it.

Rory McIlroy finally is a winner in Scotland.

Byeong “Ben” Hun An doesn't have a spot in the British Open next week.

Sergio Garcia will not be going to the British Open for the first time since he was a 17-year-old amateur in 1997.

The Masters is keeping its criteria the same for next year.

Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy can each claim a roller coaster day in the Tour Championship.

The Rocket Mortgage Classic, nestled between the British Open and FedEx Cup playoffs, could have been a tournament to skip for all of the world’s best players.

This is turning out to be a strong group of rookies on the PGA Tour, including three players with one thing in common down the home stretch: None has won yet.

With St. Andrews fresh on people’s minds after seeing the images this weekend, one might wonder the following: How hard is it to play a round at the Old Course, the home of golf?

Cameron Smith’s dad is kicking himself that he didn’t make the journey to St. Andrews to see his son win the 150th British Open.

The birdies that flowed so freely for Viktor Hovland over the first three days of the British Open finally dried up.

Cameron Young was very briefly tied for lead on the 18th hole on the final day of the British Open with only three other golfers still out on the course.

Expect Cameron Smith to celebrate his British Open victory with a drink or two.

Cameron Smith started the third round of the British Open with a two-shot lead and finished it four strokes back.

Cameron Smith started the third round of the British Open with a two-shot lead and ended it four strokes behind.

R&A chief Martin Slumbers is blasting the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series as being driven by money.

The Old Course at St. Andrews is to golf what the Mona Lisa is to art or the Holy Grail is to archeologists.

Xander Schauffele went from a four-shot deficit to a two-shot lead in the Scottish Open.

Tom Kidd won the first British Open at St. Andrews.

Greg Norman is persona non grata at the British Open at St. Andrews.

Tiger Woods considers the British Open at St. Andrews to be a historic occasion.

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Players who have joined the new Saudi Arabia-funded league will still be allowed to compete at the British Open next month.

Collin Morikawa has had plenty of thinking to do ahead of this week's Dubai Desert Classic.

Cameron Champ fended off dehydration and crisply putted his way to a 5-under 66 on Sunday, winning the 3M Open by two strokes for his third career victory.

It’s nicknamed “The Himalayas,” and for good reason.

In any other week Nick Poppleton would be working as a supermarket delivery driver to supplement his modest income as a player on the third tier of European golf.

Zach Johnson is the latest player out of the British Open.

The British Open could have big crowds at Royal St. George's.

While a birdie is 1-under par on a hole and an eagle is 2-under par, a step better than that is an albatross, which is 3-under par on a hole. In the four major tournaments, it has only happened 18 times since 1870, according to GolfLink. An albatross has happened the most times at golf’s oldest major, the British Open, which has seen an albatross occur eight times in its history. The U.S. Open and PGA Championship were the last to see three, by Nick Watney in 2012 and Joey Sindelar in 2006, respectively. Maggert has two of the 18 albatrosses at major tournaments, collecting one at the 1994 Masters and one during the 2001 British Open.

It will go to Royal St. Georges next summer. Its just very strange times for us at the minute, isnt it?Lowry said he has never seen the lunar landscape of Royal St. Georges. Id love if we were playing in front of 40,000 or 50,000 people this week in St. Georges, he said. For the week of the U.S. Open, golf was in its second week of returning from the pandemic, at Harbour Town. So everything that I miss or that I wont get to do this week, Im sure Ill get to do next year.