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The R&A
The oldest championship, the newest technology.
We have built The R&A’s companion app for The Open Championship every year since 2010. A full event platform used by over a million fans, and a partnership we have quietly evolved through every iOS era.
Since
2010
Users
1M+ annual
Sessions
14.5M
Platform
iOS · Android · watch
Results
Eighteen years. One championship.
01 / 04
1M+
Annual users
02 / 04
14.5M
Sessions
03 / 04
18 yrs
Partnership
04 / 04
4.8★
Rating
§ II · Live
Live to every green.
Scores update within seconds of a putt. Wayfinding guides spectators across the course. Broadcast-grade video runs in-app.
All resilient enough to withstand the annual traffic spike from a global TV audience.
Live scoring
Video
Wayfinding
Push
§ III · Evolution
Rebuilt, quietly.
We have rewritten the app three times in eighteen years as the tech stack evolved: iOS 5, Swift, SwiftUI.
Users never noticed. Every year, the app is the app they remember, just better.
SwiftUI
Jetpack Compose
watchOS
Client voice
“Our audience grew 12× in a decade. The app grew with them without a single bad year.”
Digital director
The R&A
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