How to watch the golf majors and Ryder Cup in Ireland

Golf is the sport that suits the by-the-month plan best. Four majors, one Ryder Cup, a handful of weekends you actually care about, and a broadcaster that will happily sell you 24 hours at a time.

Who has it this season

• Free-to-air Highlights Review
  • Free

  RTÉ has Ryder Cup 2027 highlights and the Irish Open live (K Club, 1 to 4 July 2027).

• NOW All of it Review
  • €14.99/day pass A day pass covers one day of it.
  • €38.99/month

  Sky Sports Golf has the Masters, the Open (to 2028), the PGA Tour (to 2029), the DP World Tour and the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor live.

• Sky All of it Review
  • €45/month (12-month contract)

  Sky Sports Golf has the Masters, the Open (to 2028), the PGA Tour (to 2029), the DP World Tour and the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor live. Same channels, on a 12-month Sky contract.

Rights and prices checked 2026-09-19. Standard prices; intro offers can be lower.

Sky Sports Golf has the lot in Ireland. The Masters, exclusively, under a multi-year extension signed in December 2025. The Open and the AIG Women’s Open until at least 2028. The PGA Tour, including the Players and the FedExCup Playoffs, to the end of 2029. The DP World Tour and the Ryder Cup, including Adare Manor in 2027 and Hazeltine in 2029, to 2029.

RTÉ has two things, both new in September 2026: the Amgen Irish Open live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player, and Ryder Cup 2027 highlights with 30-day catch-up, plus radio. BBC’s Open highlights are a UK arrangement that only reaches Irish homes through a Sky or Virgin box.

The cheapest way to watch most of it

Do not subscribe for the year. Pick your weekends and buy NOW Sports Day memberships: one for a final round, two for a weekend. That is the whole Masters for the price of a round of drinks, and the finder will tell you so.

A NOW Sports Month membership makes sense in three months: April for the Masters, July for the Open and September 2027 for the Ryder Cup, when you will want Friday to Sunday and the build-up. Cancel after each. Six or seven months of golf on a monthly plan costs more than the majors are worth to most people, though if you also watch the football or the F1 in those months, the maths changes and the Sky contract comes into it.

What’s free

RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player on Saorview: the Irish Open live, and Ryder Cup highlights each evening in September 2027. That is the Irish free-to-air golf. If you have a Sky or Virgin box, BBC Two’s Open highlights are there too.

The calendar

• 8 to 11 April 2027: the Masters, Sky Sports.
• 20 to 23 May 2027: PGA Championship, Frisco, Texas.
• 17 to 20 June 2027: US Open, Pebble Beach.
• 1 to 4 July 2027: Amgen Irish Open, the K Club, on RTÉ.
• 15 to 18 July 2027: the Open, St Andrews, Sky Sports.
• 17 to 19 September 2027: Ryder Cup, Adare Manor, Sky Sports live, RTÉ highlights.
• Already played: the 2026 Amgen Irish Open, 9 to 13 September at Doonbeg, on RTÉ.

Four weekends of day passes, a month for Adare, the Irish Open for nothing. Sort me out with the finder, or go straight to the source.

The NOW review is worth a read first, and a streaming stick puts the app on the telly in the good room. Everything else is on the watch index.