The 2012 Open Championship will be the 141st Open Championship and is being played from 19–22 July at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England. The 2012 event will be the eleventh Open Championship to be played at Royal Lytham & St Annes. The last was in 2001, when American David Duval won his first major championship, finishing three strokes clear of runner-up Niclas Fasth. American Tom Lehman won the previous Open at the venue, in 1996.
