We're Going Streaking!
British Open 2024: A visual history of Open Championship streakers
JEAN-LOUP GAUTREAU
Windswept fescue, rolling dunes, pot bunkers and burnt-out expanses. No, we're not talking about the landscape of Royal Troon. We're talking about the human body. Links-golf beauty isn't the only thing that catches the eye at golf's most oldest major. As longtime fans will tell you, sometimes its the sight of bare behind running across the 18th green with security in hot pursuit.
For whatever reason (probably scotch, lots and lots of scotch), streaking is as synonymous with the British Open as it is with Will Ferrell at a frat party. To celebrate that not-so-proud lineage of nudity, we assembled the most, ahem, revealing moments in Open history. Relive them all below ... but maybe wait until after work just to be safe.
Is it the British Open or the Open Championship? The name of the final men’s major of the golf season is a subject of continued discussion. The event’s official name, as explained in this op-ed by former R&A chairman Ian Pattinson, is the Open Championship. But since many United States golf fans continue to refer to it as the British Open, and search news around the event accordingly, Golf Digest continues to utilize both names in its coverage.
