The Open Championship 2023


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

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *