151st Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates 20–23 July 2023
Location Hoylake, Merseyside, England
Course(s) Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Organized by The R&A
Tour(s)
European Tour
PGA Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Field 156 players
Prize fund US$16,500,000
Winner’s share $3,000,000
The Open Championship Facts
Location St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Established 1860
Course(s) courses
Par 72
Length 7,305 yards (6,680 m)
Organised by The R&A
Tour(s) European Tour
PGA Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund US$16,500,000
Month played July
Tournament record score
Aggregate 264[a] Henrik Stenson (2016)
To par −20[a] Henrik Stenson (2016)
−20 Cameron Smith (2022)
Current champion
Australia Cameron Smith
Prize Money
2023 The Open Championship Purse: US$16,500,000 and Winner’s share $3,000,000
Schedule of Event
The Open Championship 2023 matches starts from 20–23 July 2023 at Location Hoylake, Merseyside, England
Venue
| Hole | Name | Yards | Par | Hole | Name | Yards | Par | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal | 459 | 4 | 10 | Far | 507 | 4 | |
| 2 | Stand | 453 | 4 | 11 | Punch Bowl | 392 | 4 | |
| 3 | Course | 426 | 4 | 12 | Dee | 449 | 4 | |
| 4 | Road | 367 | 4 | 13 | Alps | 194 | 3 | |
| 5 | Long | 520 | 5 | 14 | Hilbre | 454 | 4 | |
| 6 | New | 201 | 3 | 15 | Field | 620 | 5 | |
| 7 | Telegraph | 481 | 4 | 16 | Lake | 461 | 4 | |
| 8 | Briars | 436 | 4 | 17 | Little Eye | 136 | 3 | |
| 9 | Dowie | 218 | 3 | 18 | Dun | 609 | 5 | |
| Out | 3,561 | 35 | In | 3,822 | 36 | |||
| Total | 7,383 | 71 | ||||||
Field
Criteria and exemptions
1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 23 July 2023
Stewart Cink
Darren Clarke (20)
John Daly
Ernie Els (2)
Pádraig Harrington
Zach Johnson (2)
Shane Lowry (2,4,5,6)
Rory McIlroy (2,3,4,5,12)
Phil Mickelson (2,10)
Francesco Molinari (2)
Collin Morikawa (2,4,10,12)
Louis Oosthuizen
Cameron Smith (2,3,4,11,12)
Jordan Spieth (2,3,4,12)
Henrik Stenson (2)
Ben Curtis, David Duval, Todd Hamilton, Paul Lawrie, Justin Leonard, and Tiger Woods[9] did not enter.
2. The Open Champions for 2012–2022
3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2022 Open Championship
Patrick Cantlay (4,12)
Bryson DeChambeau (8)
Tommy Fleetwood (4,5)
Brian Harman (4,12)
Viktor Hovland (4,5,12)
Dustin Johnson (9)
Cameron Young (4,12)
4. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2023
Abraham Ancer
Keegan Bradley
Sam Burns (12)
Wyndham Clark (8)[c]
Corey Conners (12)
Jason Day
Harris English[d]
Tony Finau (12)
Matt Fitzpatrick (5,8,12)
Rickie Fowler
Ryan Fox (5)
Emiliano Grillo
Tyrrell Hatton (5,6)
Russell Henley
Lucas Herbert
Tom Hoge (12)
Max Homa (12)
Billy Horschel (6,12)
Im Sung-jae (12)
Kim Si-woo
Tom Kim
Chris Kirk
Kurt Kitayama[d]
Brooks Koepka (8,10)
Lee Kyoung-hoon (12)
Hideki Matsuyama (9,12)
Adrian Meronk (5)
Taylor Moore
Joaquín Niemann (12)
Séamus Power
Jon Rahm (5,8,9,12)
Patrick Reed (9)
Justin Rose
Xander Schauffele (12)
Scottie Scheffler (9,11,12)
Adam Scott (12)
Sepp Straka (12)
Sahith Theegala (12)
Justin Thomas (10,11,12)
Will Zalatoris (5,12) did not enter.
5. Top 30 in the final 2022 DP World Tour Rankings
Adri Arnaus
Richard Bland
Ewen Ferguson
Rasmus Højgaard
Pablo Larrazábal
Thriston Lawrence
Hurly Long
Robert MacIntyre
Guido Migliozzi
Alex Norén
Thorbjørn Olesen
Adrián Otaegui
Yannik Paul
Victor Perez
Thomas Pieters
Richie Ramsay
Shubhankar Sharma
Callum Shinkwin
Jordan Smith
Connor Syme
6. Recent winners of the BMW PGA Championship (2019–2022)
Danny Willett
7. Top five players
Alexander Björk
Jorge Campillo
Romain Langasque
Joost Luiten
Marcel Siem
8. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2018–2023)
Gary Woodland
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
Talor Gooch
J. T. Poston
Scott Stallings
13. Top five players
Nick Taylor
14. Winner of the 2022 Visa Open de Argentina
Zack Fischer
15. Winner of the 2022–23 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit
David Micheluzzi
16. Winner of the 2022–23 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit
Ockie Strydom
17. Winner of the 2022 Japan Open Golf Championship
Taiga Semikawa
18. Top two players on the 2022 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List
Kazuki Higa
Rikuya Hoshino
19. The top player
Hiroshi Iwata
20. Winner of the 2022 Senior Open Championship
21. Winner of the 2023 Amateur Championship[e]
Christo Lamprecht (a)
22. Winner of the 2022 U.S. Amateur[e]
Sam Bennett[f]
23. Winner of the 2023 European Amateur[e]
José Luis Ballester (a)
24. Recipient of the 2022 Mark H. McCormack Medal[e]
Keita Nakajima[g]
25. Winner of the 2022 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship[e]
Harrison Crowe (a)
26. Winner of the 2023 Latin America Amateur Championship[e]
Mateo Fernández de Oliveira (a)
27. Winner of the 2023 Open Amateur Series[e][h]
Alex Maguire (a)
Open Qualifying Series
Location Tournament Date Spots Qualifiers Ref.
South Africa Joburg Open 27 Nov 2022 3 Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Dan Bradbury, Sami Välimäki [11]
Australia ISPS Handa Australian Open 4 Dec 2022 3 Haydn Barron, Alejandro Cañizares, Min Woo Lee [12]
United States Arnold Palmer Invitational 5 Mar 2023 3 Ben Griffin, Trey Mullinax, Davis Riley[d] [13]
Hong Kong World City Championship 26 Mar 2023 4 Michael Hendry,[i] Kho Taichi, Kim Bi-o, Travis Smyth [15]
United States Wells Fargo Championship 7 May 2023 3 Michael Kim, Denny McCarthy, Brendon Todd[c] [16]
Japan Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open 28 May 2023 4 Kensei Hirata, Takumi Kanaya, Keita Nakajima, Kazuki Yasumori [17]
United States Memorial Tournament 4 Jun 2023 3 Lee Hodges, Andrew Putnam, Adam Schenk [18]
South Korea Kolon Korea Open 25 Jun 2023 2 Seungsu Han, Kang Kyung-nam [19]
England Betfred British Masters 2 Jul 2023 3 Daniel Hillier, Gunner Wiebe, Oliver Wilson [20]
Denmark Made in HimmerLand 9 Jul 2023 3 Nacho Elvira, Kalle Samooja, Marc Warren [21]
Scotland Genesis Scottish Open 16 Jul 2023 3 An Byeong-hun, Nicolai Højgaard, David Lingmerth
Final Qualifying
Location Spots Qualifiers[
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[k] 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
Leaderboard
Player Tee time
England
M. Jordan
11:05 am
South Africa
B. Grace
11:05 am
Scotland
R. Ramsay
11:05 am
Scotland
G. Robertson
11:16 am
United States
R. Henley
11:16 am
Thailand
J. Janewattananond
11:16 am
New Zealand
R. Fox
11:27 am
Australia
L. Herbert
11:27 am
South Korea
B. An
11:27 am
Japan
R. Hoshino
11:38 am
Ireland
A. Maguire
11:38 am
South Africa
C. Schwartzel
11:38 am
Poland
A. Meronk
11:49 am
Japan
H. Iwata
11:49 am
Spain
P. Larrazábal
11:49 am
Scotland
C. Syme
12:00 pm
Spain
J. Ballester Barrio
12:00 pm
United States
P. Reed
12:00 pm
France
V. Perez
12:11 pm
Belgium
T. Pieters
12:11 pm
Northern Ireland
D. Clarke
12:11 pm
South Africa
C. Lamprecht
12:22 pm
South Africa
L. Oosthuizen
12:22 pm
Netherlands
J. Luiten
12:22 pm
United States
J. T. Poston
12:33 pm
United States
T. Mullinax
12:33 pm
United States
S. Cink
12:33 pm
Sweden
H. Stenson
12:44 pm
United States
H. English
12:44 pm
United States
A. Putnam
12:44 pm
England
J. Smith
12:55 pm
Denmark
T. Olesen
12:55 pm
United States
S. Stallings
12:55 pm
United States
K. Kitayama
1:06 pm
Japan
T. Kanaya
1:06 pm
South Africa
E. Els
1:06 pm
United States
S. Burns
1:17 pm
Austria
S. Straka
1:17 pm
United States
C. Kirk
1:17 pm
United States
J. Spieth
1:33 pm
Australia
J. Day
1:33 pm
England
M. Fitzpatrick
1:33 pm
Ireland
S. Power
1:44 pm
United States
T. Gooch
1:44 pm
Ireland
P. Harrington
1:44 pm
United States
D. Riley
1:55 pm
Japan
T. Semikawa
1:55 pm
South Korea
K.H. Lee
1:55 pm
Japan
H. Matsuyama
2:06 pm
United States
P. Cantlay
2:06 pm
United States
B. Koepka
2:06 pm
United States
S. Scheffler
2:17 pm
Australia
A. Scott
2:17 pm
England
T. Fleetwood
2:17 pm
United States
X. Schauffele
2:28 pm
United States
W. Clark
2:28 pm
Australia
C. Smith
2:28 pm
Scotland
R. MacIntyre
2:39 pm
Ireland
S. Lowry
2:39 pm
United States
R. Fowler
2:39 pm
South Korea
S.W. Kim
2:50 pm
United States
B. DeChambeau
2:50 pm
United States
C. Young
2:50 pm
Denmark
N. Højgaard
3:01 pm
Japan
K. Yasumori
3:01 pm
South Korea
B. Kim
3:01 pm
Australia
H. Barron
3:12 pm
England
D. Bradbury
3:12 pm
Wales
O. Farr
3:12 pm
South Africa
M. Rohwer
3:23 pm
Germany
T. Christensen
3:23 pm
Germany
M. Siem
3:23 pm
United States
L. Hodges
3:34 pm
France
A. Rozner
3:34 pm
England
R. Bland
3:34 pm
Germany
Y. Paul
3:45 pm
Finland
S. Valimaki
3:45 pm
England
L. Canter
3:45 pm
Denmark
R. Hoejgaard
4:06 pm
England
M. Southgate
4:06 pm
England
A. Fitzpatrick
4:06 pm
South Korea
K.N. Kang
4:17 pm
New Zealand
D. Hillier
4:17 pm
Japan
K. Hirata
4:17 pm
England
C. Shinkwin
4:28 pm
Japan
K. Higa
4:28 pm
United States
M. Kim
4:28 pm
United States
Z. Fischer
4:39 pm
Hong Kong
T. Kho
4:39 pm
South Africa
K. Barker
4:39 pm
France
R. Langasque
4:50 pm
Australia
T. Smyth
4:50 pm
United States
B. Todd
4:50 pm
Sweden
A. Björk
5:01 pm
Spain
A. Otaegui
5:01 pm
United States
G. Woodland
5:01 pm
Australia
M.W. Lee
5:12 pm
South Africa
C. Bezuidenhout
5:12 pm
Australia
H. Crowe
5:12 pm
Canada
C. Conners
5:23 pm
Sweden
A. Norén
5:23 pm
United States
B. Horschel
5:23 pm
Mexico
A. Ancer
5:34 pm
United States
T. Hoge
5:34 pm
South Korea
T. Kim
5:34 pm
England
M. Wallace
5:45 pm
Australia
D. Micheluzzi
5:45 pm
United States
Z. Johnson
5:45 pm
United States
S. Theegala
5:56 pm
United States
D. Johnson
5:56 pm
Argentina
E. Grillo
5:56 pm
Argentina
M. Fernandez de Oliveira
6:07 pm
United States
D. McCarthy
6:07 pm
Italy
F. Molinari
6:07 pm
South Africa
T. Lawrence
6:18 pm
Belgium
T. Detry
6:18 pm
United States
B. Harman
6:18 pm
United States
T. Moore
6:34 pm
United States
J. Daly
6:34 pm
England
D. Willett
6:34 pm
South Africa
O. Strydom
6:45 pm
United States
B. Griffin
6:45 pm
Sweden
D. Lingmerth
6:45 pm
Scotland
E. Ferguson
6:56 pm
Spain
A. Arnaus
6:56 pm
Japan
K. Nakajima
6:56 pm
Chile
J. Niemann
7:07 pm
South Korea
S.J. Im
7:07 pm
United States
K. Bradley
7:07 pm
Norway
V. Hovland
7:18 pm
United States
J. Thomas
7:18 pm
United States
T. Finau
7:18 pm
Spain
J. Rahm
7:29 pm
England
J. Rose
7:29 pm
Northern Ireland
R. McIlroy
7:29 pm
United States
C. Morikawa
7:40 pm
United States
M. Homa
7:40 pm
England
T. Hatton
7:40 pm
United States
A. Schenk
7:51 pm
United States
P. Mickelson
7:51 pm
Canada
N. Taylor
7:51 pm
Scotland
M. Warren
8:02 pm
Spain
A. Cañizares
8:02 pm
Spain
N. Elvira
8:02 pm
Italy
G. Migliozzi
8:13 pm
Australia
C. Mckinney
8:13 pm
England
O. Wilson
8:13 pm
United States
G. Wiebe
8:24 pm
India
S. Sharma
8:24 pm
Finland
K. Samooja
8:24 pm
England
B. Robinson-Thompson
8:35 pm
Scotland
M. Stewart
8:35 pm
Spain
J. Campillo
8:35 pm
Germany
H. Long
8:46 pm
England
M. Penge
8:46 pm
United States
S.S. Han
8:46 pm
Past Results
| Year | Dates | Champion | Country | Venue | Winning score |
Winning margin |
Runner(s)-up | Winner’s share (£) |
Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151st | 2023 | 16,500,000 | 3,000,000 | Royal Liverpool | ||||||
| 150th | 2022 | Cameron Smith | 268 | −20 | 1 stroke | Cameron Young | 14,000,000 | 2,500,000 | St Andrews | |
| 149th | 2021 | Collin Morikawa | 265 | −15 | 2 strokes | Jordan Spieth | 11,500,000 | 2,070,000 | Royal St George’s | |
| – | 2020 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||||||||
| 148th | 2019 | Shane Lowry | 269 | −15 | 6 strokes | Tommy Fleetwood | 10,750,000 | 1,935,000 | Royal Portrush | |
| 2018 | 19–22 Jul | Francesco Molinari | Italy | Carnoustie | 276 (−8) | 2 strokes | Kevin Kisner Rory McIlroy Justin Rose Xander Schauffele |
1,440,000 | ||
| 2017 | 20–23 Jul | Jordan Spieth | United States | Royal Birkdale | 268 (−12) | 3 strokes | Matt Kuchar | 1,420,000 | ||
| 2016 | 14–17 Jul | Henrik Stenson | Sweden | Royal Troon | 264 (−20) | 3 strokes | Phil Mickelson | 1,175,000 | ||
| 2015 | 16–20 Jul | Zach Johnson | United States | St Andrews | 273 (−15) | Playoff | Marc Leishman Louis Oosthuizen |
1,150,000 | ||
| 2014 | 17–20 Jul | Rory McIlroy | Northern Ireland | Royal Liverpool | 271 (−17) | 2 strokes | Rickie Fowler Sergio García |
975,000 | ||
| 2013 | 18–21 Jul | Phil Mickelson | United States | Muirfield | 281 (−3) | 3 strokes | Henrik Stenson | 945,000 | ||
| 2012 | 19–22 Jul | Ernie Els (2) | South Africa | Royal Lytham & St Annes | 273 (−7) | 1 stroke | Adam Scott | 900,000 | ||
| 2011 | 14–17 Jul | Darren Clarke | Northern Ireland | Royal St George’s | 275 (−5) | 3 strokes | Dustin Johnson Phil Mickelson |
900,000 | ||
| 2010 | 15–18 Jul | Louis Oosthuizen | South Africa | St Andrews | 272 (−16) | 7 strokes | Lee Westwood | 850,000 | ||