The claret jug, the coveted prize presented to the winner of the British Open, has seen quite a bit of the world—and probably parts of it many folks might not want to see. It’s been on a bar crawl in ...

The Open Championship starts on Thursday, July 18, and will continue for four days. On Sunday, July 21, the winner will receive $3.1 million and a trophy that carries a long history in the Open ...

The Claret Jug is the oldest trophy in golf. Awarded annually to the winner of the British Open, there’s a lot more than meets the eye about this unusually named trophy. Here's everything you need to ...

The Champion Golfer of the Year, aka the winner of the British Open, earns a large sum of money, many accolades and the historic Claret Jug. OK, not the Claret Jug. We can explain. There have been 150 ...

One of sports' oldest and most unique prizes is back up for grabs. Top golfers around the world will convene at Royal Portrush for the 2025 Open Championship. On top of an opportunity to become a ...

When you win the British Open, you get to hoist the Claret Jug. Over the last several generations, whoever ends up winning The Open Championship is the proud owner of this one-of-a-kind trophy for a ...

The claret jug is arguably golf’s most famous prize, but it wasn’t originally awarded to the Open Championship winner. The first Open champion in 1860, Willie Park, Sr., received the Challenge Belt, ...

THE birth of the cult of fine wine can be dated precisely. On April 10th 1663, Samuel Pepys, diarist and man-about-London, noted that he had enjoyed “a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan that hath a ...