American golf fans

[WES]

It's not pretentious bóllocks to refer to The FA as The FA is it? Or do you call it the English FA?*

Neither is it to refer to The Open as The Open.

* The others seem to include their country in their title

www.fff.fr/
www.cbf.com
www.knvb.nl/
www.rfef.es/
www.figc.it
and of course www.scottishfa.co.uk/

www.thefa.com/

Yeah there is. There are many Open Championships in many countries and every country prefaces theirs with the country name to distinguish them. Calling the British Open as The Open makes it sound like it is somehow better. People like to deny it but we all know it's true.

Mind you, I would actually agree that it is the best of the Open Championships, but that's just my opinion. The pretense I refer to is rife in golf in the UK however. Gentlemen must wear a jacket in the clubhouse after 4pm blah, blah, blah...

Can't stand that nonsense.

[Pokster]

Yeah there is. There are many Open Championships in many countries and every country prefaces theirs with the country name to distinguish them. Calling the British Open as The Open makes it sound like it is somehow better. People like to deny it but we all know it's true.

Mind you, I would actually agree that it is the best of the Open Championships, but that's just my opinion. The pretense I refer to is rife in golf in the UK however. Gentlemen must wear a jacket in the clubhouse after 4pm blah, blah, blah...

Can't stand that nonsense.

Strangely enough when you are the first country to have an Open championship you won't prefix it with the the country... so ours is The Open, why should we change the name afterwards

[PSRB]

Strangely enough when you are the first country to have an Open championship you won't prefix it with the the country... so ours is The Open, why should we change the name afterwards

Also, why Wimbledon isn't The British Open

[SWv2]

Also, why Wimbledon isn't The British Open

Well strictly speaking Wimbledon isn't Wimbledon.

It is just held there.