{"id":72152,"date":"2025-05-03T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/72152\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:25:16","slug":"the-open-how-royal-portrush-return-has-been-five-years-in-the-making-and-what-ni-can-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/72152\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open: How Royal Portrush return has been five years in the making\u2026\u00a0and what NI can expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Open will have a positive impact for the whole of Northern Ireland, writes Aine Kearney, Director of Events, Tourism NI <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aine Kearney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b7472527-ca40-41c9-8095-b8d1a430702a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Aine Kearney<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I have had the privilege of working in tourism during an exceptional period of transformative growth over the last decade. There is no doubt that hosting the Open in 2019 was one of the proudest moments during that time, with record breaking numbers of attendees making it the first ever Open Championship to sell out and an experience that epitomised our \u2018Giant Spirit\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The fact that it is coming back for the second time in six years is a reflection of just how successful the event was last time around. At Tourism NI we are delighted to have the opportunity to once again showcase to the world what a fabulous tourism and golfing destination Northern Ireland has become, building on the success of last year\u2019s Irish Open at Royal County Down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Open will have a positive impact for the whole of Northern Ireland, writes Aine Kearney, Director of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[5817,2826,4287,79,24411,35986,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-72152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-causeway-coast-and-glens-borough-council","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-the-open","13":"tag-tourism-ni","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114446016510942823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}