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THE Open Championship at Royal Troon will no longer be free to view from 2016 after the BBC ended its deal a year early, the R&A announced yesterday.

Sky Sports signed a five-year deal from 2017 to televise the golf championship with the BBC having two hours of daily highlights and covering the event live on radio and online.

New R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers said: “We are looking forward to world-class coverage of The Open from our partners at Sky Sports and are grateful that they have stepped in a year early.