Case study · Royal Portrush, Northern Ireland

The Open

Client
The R&A [confirm]
Location
Royal Portrush Golf Club
Event
The 153rd Open, July 2025
Services
Network · Internet · CCTV · Crowd intelligence · AV
The 18th hole grandstand at the 153rd Open, Royal Portrush
The brief

A championship built from scratch on a links course

The Open arrives at a links course and builds a championship around it: grandstands, hospitality, broadcast compounds, scoring and retail, all temporary, all needing to be connected from the first practice round to the final putt.

[Charlie to supply the brief from The Open case study: what the R&A asked for, and what was new for Royal Portrush.]

The Open hospitality pavilion at Royal Portrush
What we delivered

A temporary network across the course

A temporary IT network and internet provision for the organisers, broadcasters and hospitality partners; CCTV surveillance across the site; audio visual provision for the big screens; and crowd intelligence to track how spectators moved around the course.

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Giant LED leaderboard screen at The Open, Royal Portrush
The outcome

Spectators, broadcasters and partners connected

[Charlie to supply the outcome from The Open case study.]

Welcome to The Open LED screen at dusk, with a CCTV camera on the tower
The Open · scope of services

Built for a championship.

services · one partner
Temporary IT network Temporary IT network A temporary network across the course, compounds and hospitality.
Crowd intelligence Crowd intelligence Live movement and occupancy data across the course.
Internet provision Internet provision High-speed internet for organisers, media and partners.
CCTV surveillance CCTV surveillance Camera coverage of the course, gates and compounds.
Audio visual provision Audio visual provision Connectivity for the big screens and leaderboards.
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