Schoolkids get the chance to bring famed Claret Jug into the classroom

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Open may have migrated north for this year’s prestigious European Tour event but while the tournament heads to Royal County Down next month, schoolchildren up and down the country have a chance to bring the winners’ trophy and the Open’s famed Claret Jug to their classroom.

Organised by The European Tour and the Rory Foundation, the inaugural Irish Open Trophy Tour competition will give four lucky schools across the island of Ireland an opportunity to host a visit from the Irish Open Trophy.

Not only that, but going along with it will be perhaps the greatest golfing trophy of them all, the famous Claret Jug, which is presented to the winner of The Open Championship, the world’s oldest golf championship, currently taking pride of place in world number one Rory McIlroy’s trophy cabinet.