The Open Championship

[sean_miller]

Just read you comment, if anything its the other way around, why did it become fashionable to call it the british open? The open is open to the world, the qualification process is way more open to worldwide qualification than any other, I guess its cool to call the us open the open if you are from their because its your open, but the open isnt the british open its a world open, and therefore should be refered to as such.

I can't answer when it became fashionable to call it the British Open, because that was many years before I was born. If you don't recall North Americans referring to The Open Championship virtually exclusively as "The British Open", and the US Open as "the Open", then you're either very young or not from North America. Or both.

Anyway, it doesn't seem like you're the right person to answer my question. I would have asked it in a separate thread, but 1.) it's not really that important, and 2.) it gets touched on every July.

[whatwhatwhat]

I can't answer when it became fashionable to call it the British Open, because that was many years before I was born. If you don't recall North Americans referring to The Open Championship virtually exclusively as "The British Open", and the US Open as "the Open", then you're either very young or not from North America. Or both.

I know americans call it the british open is listed like that on the uspga website, as for the rest fair enough, and jamo the name of the "the open" doesnt need to be differentiated from other opens because they arent called the open, they are called the us open or the Irish open etc, they will only be mistaken if you mistake the name of other opens ie calling the us open "the open" and therefore two wrongs shouldnt make a right

[The Recreational Golfer]

The U.S. Open was once often called the National Open. Does anyone know when this moniker faded into disuse? Late 50s or early 60s, I would guess.