Open (sport) performance standards or eligibility criteria may apply in other sports. Opens are usually found in golf, tennis, bowling, badminton, quizbowl, fighting games, snooker, darts, volleyball, ultimate, squash and chess. Open (sport) An Open in sports terminology refers to a sporting event or game tournament that is open to contestants regardless of their professional or amateur status, age, ability, gender, sex, or other categorization. In many sports, preliminary qualifying events, open to all entrants, are held to successively reduce the field to a manageable number for participation in a final championship event, which itself may involve elimination rounds (tournaments). The term
Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon both of these provisions. He retired from the membership of the House of Lords on 17 January 2017. Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon Donald Sage Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon, PC, QC (30 January 1946 – 21 August 2018) was a British judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and a Lord Advocate, the country's senior Law Officer. He was also one of five additional Lords of Appeal in the House of Lords, where he sat as a crossbencher. He was the brother of the BBC news reporter Alan Mackay. Mackay was born to Rev. Donald George Mackintosh Mackay