Mark darbon

April 27th, 2026

R&A names Royal Lytham & St Annes site of the 2028 Open Championship

December 9th, 2025

Open Championship moving temporarily to August in 2028

The R&A announced the decision overnight for the championship not to conflict with the Olympics golf competition in Los Angeles.

October 24th, 2025

The heads of the R&A and the Masters offer a warning they hope the golf world will heed

Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley and R&A chief executive Mark Darbon have echoed Rory McIlroy’s sentiments from the recent controversial Ryder Cup at Bethpage that golf should be held to a higher standard of fan behaviour than other sports.

July 17th, 2025

Open Championship 2025: Explaining the controversial parade that’s changing third round tee-times at Royal Portrush

This parade is a politically divisive, historically combustible and arguably provocative march that will have a lot of people feeling a lot of very strong emotions along the Catholic-Protestant split in Northern Ireland.