2016 Open Championship
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| Dates | 14–17 July 2016 |
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| Location | Ayrshire, Scotland |
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Royal Troon Golf Club Old Course |
| Organized by | The R&A |
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| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,190 yd (6,575 m) |
| Field | 156 players, 81 after cut |
| Cut | 146 (+4) |
| Prize fund |
£6,500,000 €7,544,614 $8,572,200 |
| Winner's share | £1,175,000 €1,363,834 $1,549,590 |
 Henrik Stenson
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| 264 (−20) | |
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The 2016 Open Championship was the 145th Open Championship, played 14–17 July at Royal Troon Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the ninth Open Championship played at the Old Course of Troon, and the fifth since gaining royal status. The Open was won by Henrik Stenson who achieved a record 20 under par. He became the first Scandinavian man to win a major title.
This was the first Open Championship under new television rights deals in the United Kingdom and United States. In the U.K., Sky Sports replaced the BBC, who held broadcast rights from 1955 to 2015, marking the first time that rights to the Open had been held by a subscription television service. To comply with anti-siphoning laws, rights to broadcast a nightly highlights programme on free-to-air television were sold to the BBC. The contract was to begin in 2017, but the BBC opted out of the 2016 edition.
In the U.S., television rights shifted from ESPN to NBC and sister pay-TV network Golf Channel, marking the first time that Golf Channel had coverage of a men's major championship. It also restored a major to the network for the first time since 2014; from 1995 to 2014, NBC televised the U.S. Open and other championships of the USGA, which moved to Fox in 2015. Similarly to the BBC, ESPN chose to opt out of its final year of Open rights, causing NBC's rights to begin in 2016 instead.
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