The UK's BBC public-service broadcaster has secured rights to the 2025, 2026, and 2027 editions of The Women's Open golf tournament.
Through the deal, the BBC will provide live radio commentary, digital short-format clips, and linear TV highlights from the next three editions of the event.
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The agreement was struck by the BBC with The R&A, the organizing body behind The Women's Open.
This free-to-air tie-up comes just a week after the BBC extended a similar set of rights – radio and TV highlights coverage – for the men's Open. Live TV coverage for that event has been provided by pay-TV heavyweight Sky Sports for the last eight years.
The new deal has also been announced during the 2025 edition of The Women's Open – title-sponsored by AIG – which got underway yesterday at the Royal Porthcawl course in South Wales.
The BBC Sounds service is now providing "full uninterrupted commentary from the first tee shot to the final putt" of the event, on Sunday (August 3).
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By GlobalDataIn terms of its women's sport coverage, the BBC (alongside fellow free broadcaster ITV) unveiled a rights deal covering soccer's FIFA Women's World Cup in 2027, over the weekend.
Earlier in July, meanwhile, the BBC announced a new deal to broadcast Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) matches across the 2025-26 and 2026-27 campaigns.
