2023 Open Championship field

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This page lists the criteria used to determine the field for the 2023 Open Championship and the players who qualified.

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The Open Championship field is made up of 156 players, who gained entry through various exemption criteria and qualifying tournaments. [lower-alpha 1] The criteria included past Open champions, recent major winners, top ranked players in the world rankings and from the leading world tours, and winners and high finishers from various designated tournaments, including the Open Qualifying Series; the winners of designated amateur events, including The Amateur Championship and U.S. Amateur, also gained exemption provided they remain an amateur. Anyone not qualifying via exemption, and had a handicap of 0.4 or lower, can gain entry through regional and final qualifying events. [1]

Most exemption criteria remained unchanged from previous years; changes included the removal of exemptions for recent Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup players, [2] and a new exemption for amateur golfers. [3]

Criteria and exemptions

Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses. [4]

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 23 July 2023

2. The Open Champions for 2012–2022 [lower-alpha 2]

3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2022 Open Championship

4. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2023

5. Top 30 in the final 2022 DP World Tour Rankings

6. Recent winners of the BMW PGA Championship (2019–2022)

7. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2023 Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open

8. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2018–2023)

9. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2018–2023)

10. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2017–2023)

11. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2021–2023)

12. The top 30 players from the 2022 FedEx Cup points list

13. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2022–23 FedEx Cup points list through the Travelers Championship

14. Winner of the 2022 Visa Open de Argentina

15. Winner of the 2022–23 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

16. Winner of the 2022–23 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

17. Winner of the 2022 Japan Open Golf Championship

18. Top two players on the 2022 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List

19. The top player, not already exempt, on the 2023 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List through the BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup

20. Winner of the 2022 Senior Open Championship

21. Winner of the 2023 Amateur Championship [lower-alpha 5]

22. Winner of the 2022 U.S. Amateur [lower-alpha 5]

23. Winner of the 2023 European Amateur [lower-alpha 5]

24. Recipient of the 2022 Mark H. McCormack Medal [lower-alpha 5]

25. Winner of the 2022 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship [lower-alpha 5]

26. Winner of the 2023 Latin America Amateur Championship [lower-alpha 5]

27. Winner of the 2023 Open Amateur Series [lower-alpha 5] [lower-alpha 8]

Open Qualifying Series

The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) for the 2023 Open Championship consists of 11 events. Places are available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who make the cut. In the event of ties, positions go to players ranked highest according to that week's OWGR. Unlike in previous years, if a player who has qualified through OQS becomes exempt through other criteria before 1 June, the next highest non-exempt finisher from that OQS event will become exempt. [6]

LocationTournamentDateSpotsQualifiersRef.
South Africa Joburg Open 27 Nov 20223 Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Dan Bradbury, Sami Välimäki [7]
Australia ISPS Handa Australian Open 4 Dec 20223 Haydn Barron, Alejandro Cañizares, Min Woo Lee [8]
United States Arnold Palmer Invitational 5 Mar 20233 Ben Griffin, Trey Mullinax, Davis Riley [lower-alpha 4] [9]
Hong Kong World City Championship 26 Mar 20234 Michael Hendry , [lower-alpha 9] Kho Taichi, Kim Bi-o, Travis Smyth [12]
United States Wells Fargo Championship 7 May 20233 Michael Kim, Denny McCarthy, Brendon Todd [lower-alpha 3] [13]
Japan Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open 28 May 20234 Kensei Hirata, Takumi Kanaya, Keita Nakajima, Kazuki Yasumori [14]
United States Memorial Tournament 4 Jun 20233 Lee Hodges, Andrew Putnam, Adam Schenk [15]
South Korea Kolon Korea Open 25 Jun 20232 Seungsu Han, Kang Kyung-nam [16]
England Betfred British Masters 2 Jul 20233 Daniel Hillier, Gunner Wiebe, Oliver Wilson [17]
Denmark Made in HimmerLand 9 Jul 20233 Nacho Elvira, Kalle Samooja, Marc Warren [18]
Scotland Genesis Scottish Open 16 Jul 20233 An Byeong-hun, Nicolai Højgaard, David Lingmerth [19]

Final Qualifying

Final qualifying was played on 4 July at four locations, [20] with 117 players who advanced from regional qualifying events (held on 26 June at 15 locations) [21] as well as those exempt from regional qualifying.

LocationSpotsQualifiers [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 10]
Dundonald Links 4 Connor McKinney (R), Marco Penge, Graeme Robertson (R), Michael Stewart
Royal Cinque Ports 5 Thomas Detry, Branden Grace, Martin Rohwer, Antoine Rozner, Charl Schwartzel
Royal Porthcawl [lower-alpha 11] 5 Laurie Canter, Oliver Farr, Jazz Janewattananond, Brandon Robinson-Thompson, Matthew Southgate
West Lancashire 5 Kyle Barker, Tiger Christensen (a), Alex Fitzpatrick, Matthew Jordan, Matt Wallace

Notes

  1. 1 2 (a) – indicates the player is an amateur.
  2. ↑ All will be aged 60 or under on 23 July 2023.
  3. 1 2 Wyndham Clark initially qualified through the Wells Fargo Championship, but after he subsequently qualified through category 4, his OQS spot was reallocated to Brendon Todd.
  4. 1 2 3 Harris English and Kurt Kitayama initially qualified through the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but after both subsequently qualified through category 4, their OQS spots were reallocated to Ben Griffin and Trey Mullinax.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Players must remain amateurs in order to be exempt under this category.
  6. ↑ Bennett forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
  7. ↑ Nakajima forfeited his exemption by turning professional, but subsequently qualified through the Open Qualifying Series.
  8. ↑ Cumulative World Amateur Golf Ranking points from the St Andrews Links Trophy, The Amateur Championship and European Amateur.
  9. ↑ Michael Hendry did not play after being diagnosed with leukemia in May 2023. [10] The following year, he was given a medical exemption into the 2024 Open. [11]
  10. ↑ (R) – indicates a golfer who came through Regional Qualifying.
  11. ↑ In May, Royal Porthcawl was announced as a replacement for Burnham & Berrow due to the condition of the course. [22]

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