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Travel Weekly
17 hours ago
- Travel Weekly
Hilton's Tapestry Collection makes Northern Ireland debut
Hilton's Tapestry Collection has made its debut in Northern Ireland with The Marcus Portrush, a hotel that breaths new life into a landmark Victorian building. Hilton says the 80-room hotel embraces the spirit of Portrush, a seaside town "known for its scenic beaches, rich heritage and old-world charm." The Marcus Portrush occupies a restored Victorian building. Photo Credit: Hilton The Marcus Portrush occupies a restored building that served as a hotel and bakery between 1895 and the 1980s. Hilton said a $15 million renovation preserved the original mosaic signage, decorative floor mosaics and tiled façade. Historical photographs displayed throughout the hotel show Portrush's heritage as a Victorian tourist resort, while the interior design draws inspiration from the surrounding coastline, blending a contemporary palette with nods to the natural landscape. The hotel is inspired by the fictional character Marcus, a comic-book-style adventurer. Illustrations from Marcus' journeys adorn the walls, while displays of treasures collected during his exploits bring the story to life. A guestroom at The Marcus Portrush. Photo Credit: Hilton Nemesis, the hotel's Asian fusion restaurant, is named after the mythical giant octopus from Marcus' tales. The menu offers reimagined classics, like Irish sirloin steak with bone marrow butter and Asian steak sauce. The Heritage Cocktail Bar features the Orra Margarita -- inspired by the winding beauty of Orra Drive, a scenic stretch through the Antrim Glens. This margarita blends poitín (Irish moonshine) with mango. Hilton noted that the hotel has opened ahead of the 153rd British Open at Royal Portrush Golf Club from July 13-20.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
The Open 2025: Golf fever hits Portrush ahead of golf tournament
The finishing touches are being made in Portrush as the town prepares to welcome Rory McIlroy and the golfing world for The Open Open is being held from 17-20 July with four official practice days beforehand and tickets for all eight days are sold out as 'Open fever' grips the north of the main car parks in the seaside town has already closed and is being turned into a TV compound for international the closure of the East Strand carpark, which is popular with beach walkers and sea swimmers, has led to complaints. Members of Royal Portrush golf club will also no longer be allowed to play the course after Sunday, to protect the fairways and 270,000 spectators are expected during the eight days of practice and play next fact that the East Strand carpark has closed already, three weeks before the tournament, has caused some McCarron from Causeway Coast and Glens Council told BBC News NI: "The council totally understands the frustration there. "But the carpark is being used as a key cog in the machinery of putting on this Open championship." "Through the media and through this wonderful event, there will be pictures of this part of the world shown in hundreds of millions of homes around the world," he from Portrush Primary School were given a tour of the first tee, the 18th green grandstand and practice facilities on of them, Martina, 10, said: "The grandstand surprised me, I didn't think it would be that big." Gary McNeill, head professional at Royal Portrush, showed the pupils around but public access will soon said: "From Monday, the course is essentially shut but it's available for any competitors who want to play before the official practice starts."Everything is ready. It's all in great shape." The world's top golfers will arrive next month and those who played at The Open in Portrush in 2019 will not see many changes, on or off the are some tweaks to tees and fairways, and more corporate hospitality boxes but no major NI has estimated that golf tourism is worth almost £70m to the economy annually. Extra buses and trains are being organised by Translink as organisers of the tournament, the Royal & Ancient (R&A), have urged spectators to use public transport if and ride facilities will also be Shane Lowry won The Open at Portrush in 2019 amid raucous scenes of celebration on the 18th McIlroy's recent victory in the Masters means he will be the focus of attention when the four-day tournament begins on 17 July.
Daily Record
5 days ago
- Sport
- Daily Record
Scottie Scheffler turns his Dallas HQ into a little piece of Scotland ahead of huge month
World No.1 will hone skills at home for The Renaissance and Portrush Student Scottie Scheffler will briefly turn his Dallas base into a little piece of Scotland as he does his homework ahead of a double date across the Atlantic. The world No.1 failed to add to his trophy haul at the Travelers Championship as he finished tied sixth alongside Rory McIlroy. However, Scheffler has immediately turned his attentions to the next tests which come at The Renaissance Club and in Northern Ireland. The American ace tees-up next at the Genesis Scottish Open before the hunt for a fourth Major crown of his career starts in The Open at Royal Portrush. Having just come through a stretch of high-profile events in his homeland, Scheffler will spend quality time at home with family before his next assignments. But, such is his dedication to the job, he will also have a steely focus on plans before jetting to Scotland tinkering and trying to perfect the differing types of shots he is going to need for when he hits the UK links tracks. Scheffler outlined his imminent plans in the aftermath of last round at the Travelers, which saw him card a 65 to finish three behind eventual winner and his Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley. He said : 'I'll go home and try to sleep for a few days, see if my little man [son Bennett] is going to allow that. Get some rest, some recovery. I think I played five out of the last six weeks, been in contention a lot, so get home, get some rest and start preparing for the Scottish Open. I'll start practicing toward the end of the week and I'll continue to hit the shots that we need when we go over there and that's pretty much it, yeah. Pretty simple.' Scheffler was unable to get his hands on the silverware in Connecticut, but the fact he finished high on the leaderboard again despite not having his best game offers another chilling warning to the rest that is ready to pounce once more. He said: 'I did some good things this week. I think obviously I was looking for a little bit more, but overall not a bad week. If I have a different day yesterday [Saturday] I think it's a different story, but you can't be perfect every day, I'm just trying to do my best and I fought back nicely today [Sunday] and posted a decent score. 'I felt like I hit it a lot better, kept a clean card. Today was the first day where I've been bogey-free and I think this is a golf course where limiting your mistakes is really important. You're going to get opportunities, but you got to limit your mistakes and this week I just wasn't able to do that.'
Daily Record
20-06-2025
- Sport
- Daily Record
Hurt Jordan Spieth gives key injury news ahead of The Open after quitting Travelers
American star needs time off and fighting to be ready for Portrush Gutted Jordan Spieth has opened up on his painful exit from the Travelers Championship and offered a fitness update with The Open looming. The American star was forced out of the tournament in Connecticut having suffered a setback during the warm-up for his first round. Spieth was in deep trouble throughout and clearly in agony as he received physio from medical staff on the course during the round in his efforts to scrap through to the finale and conclude. However, the 2015 Masters king was unable to se it through and said sorry to partner Luke Clanton for leaving him on his own as he had to accept it was over on the 13th fairway. Spieth pulled out mid-event for the first time in 297 starts now faces a race to be ready for The Open Championship, which he won in 2017, at Royal Portrush. He said: 'It was both sides of my neck and upper back. I quit 30 minutes early from my warm-up and came back to the [treatment] table with my physio who was out there on the range, Marnus, who works with Scottie and JT and some other guys and tried to get on top of it. As I was out there playing, I just wasn't moving very well and then it just got worse. 'I was just going to try to see if I could somehow get through at even. It's a weird situation with an elevated event and no cut and important points and stuff. It's like: Well, what's the downside if I can finish of just finishing even if it's ugly and then I hit my tee shot on 13 and it legitimately really hurt. 'I was walking off that tee and I'm like: If it's even harder to turn, then I'm not going to be able to make a backswing that's even useful. It's only going to get worse to finish the round and it's not worth it. I thought that was the time." The Ryder Cup star continued: "I've never withdrawn from an event ever anywhere at any level, so I didn't really know what to do. It just became too much. I didn't see it turning around until probably Saturday. I've been doing everything right and I think it was just very random. 'I may have just slept wrong, I don't know what caused it. I've done the same routine. I didn't change anything up. I took Monday pretty easy. There was no excuses. It was very random. Unfortunate, given the timing. 'It's incredibly frustrating because this was 10 out of 12 for me and I was looking at this being the strongest one. I was very confident about that. Everything I had done in practice and the pro-am showed me it's going to be a really good event. It's just a very weird circumstance. 'It's disappointing. We're having a baby here in a couple weeks, so I'll have some time off now, obviously, to get healthy, but hopefully after a few days I go through the right process to just get right back to where I was. 'It's a bummer at this event, obviously. I've had little things here or there that everybody has, a hip thing here for a day or two, just random stuff. It was just totally random. It was not overdone. I didn't feel stress coming into this. 'If I was anxious or whatever that would have caused anything to tighten up, it would have been last week, and I had none of that here. In fact, it felt like a relaxing week. I think it was just a random one-off that, unfortunately, got worse and bad enough on a Thursday that I didn't feel like I could continue.'
BreakingNews.ie
16-06-2025
- Sport
- BreakingNews.ie
Rory McIlroy ready for next challenge after ‘climbing Everest' with Masters win
Rory McIlroy is ready for a new challenge after 'climbing my Everest' of winning the Masters and has set his sights on next month's Open at Portrush. McIlroy ended a difficult week at the US Open on a high on Sunday, going some way to exorcising the demons of an Oakmont course that had tortured him for the first three days. Advertisement The 36-year-old played his best golf of the week, with the sort of accuracy and guile that he would have longed for on Thursday and Friday, carding a three-under-par 67 to finish on seven over. The early pairings are showing that there are scoring opportunities out there. Rory now -3 for the day after this birdie. — U.S. Open (@usopengolf) June 15, 2025 It was not just the bruising difficulty of Oakmont which had him feeling fuzzy-headed this week, though, as McIlroy still suffers the hangover of that momentous win at Augusta in April, where he became just the sixth male player to complete a career grand slam of majors. He has accepted that he needs time to regain his focus and knows next month's Open on home soil in Northern Ireland is the place to do it. 'Look, I climbed my Everest in April, and I think after you do something like that, you've got to make your way back down, and you've got to look for another mountain to climb,' he said. 'An Open at Portrush is certainly one of those. Advertisement 'If I can't get motivated to get up for an Open Championship at home, then I don't know what can motivate me. Six birdies in a final round 67 (-3) for Rory ✍️ #USOpen — DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) June 15, 2025 'I just need to get myself in the right frame of mind. I probably haven't been there the last few weeks.' Next month's final major of the year is just 65 miles from where he grew up playing at Holywood and it will be his first visit to Northern Ireland since winning the green jacket and completing the set. 'I feel like playing an Open at Portrush already (in 2019) and at least remembering what those feelings were like and those feelings that I was probably unprepared for at the time,' he said. Advertisement 'Obviously it will be my first time sort of in public back home after winning the Masters. It should be a really nice week. Sport Robert MacIntyre falls short as JJ Spaun clinches... Read More 'Hopefully I can celebrate with them on Sunday night with the Claret Jug and the green jacket. 'It will be amazing to go home and play in that atmosphere and see a lot of people that I still haven't seen yet. I'm really looking forward to it. 'It was nice to end this week with a bit of a positive note with the way I played today, and yeah, I'll just be looking forward to and trying to get myself prepared for Portrush.' Advertisement
