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2017 Open Championship

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Dates
  
20–23 July 2017

Organized by
  
The R&A

Location
  
Southport, England

Par
  
70

2017 Open Championship

Course(s)
  
Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Tour(s)
  
European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour

The 2017 Open Championship will be the 146th Open Championship, held 20–23 July 2017 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England.
It will be the 10th Open Championship played at Royal Birkdale.

Contents

Media

The 2017 Open Championship will be the second to be televised domestically by Sky Sports. In the United States, it will be the second Open Championship to be televised by NBC (Golf Channel's parent network).

Venue

The 2017 event will be the tenth Open Championship played at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club. The most recent was in 2008, where Pádraig Harrington successfully defended his 2007 Open Championship title from Carnoustie.

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):

Field

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

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 23 July 2017

Mark Calcavecchia, Stewart Cink (2), Darren Clarke (2), Ben Curtis, John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2), Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington (2), Zach Johnson (2,17), Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard, Sandy Lyle, Rory McIlroy (2,3,5,6,10,12,17), Phil Mickelson (2,3,12,17), Mark O'Meara, Louis Oosthuizen (2,5), Henrik Stenson (2,3,5,17), Tiger Woods

  • Eligible but not expected to enter: Nick Faldo, Ian Baker-Finch, Nick Price
  • 2. The Open Champions for 2007–2016
    3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2016 Open Championship

    Sergio García (5,17), Bill Haas, Tyrrell Hatton (5), J. B. Holmes (12,17), Dustin Johnson (8,12,17), Andrew Johnston (5), Søren Kjeldsen (5), Steve Stricker

    4. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2017

    21 May

    5. Top 30 on the 2016 Race to Dubai

    Richard Bland, Rafael Cabrera-Bello (17), Ross Fisher, Matthew Fitzpatrick (17), Branden Grace, Scott Hend (18), David Horsey, Thongchai Jaidee, Martin Kaymer (8,17), Li Haotong, Shane Lowry, Joost Luiten, Francesco Molinari, Alexander Norén, Thorbjørn Olesen, Thomas Pieters (17), Charl Schwartzel (12), Andy Sullivan (17), Wang Jeung-hun, Lee Westwood (17), Bernd Wiesberger, Danny Willett (9,17), Chris Wood (6,17)

    6. Last three BMW PGA Championship winners

    An Byeong-hun, 28 May

    7. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2017 Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open
    8. Last five U.S. Open winners

    Justin Rose (14,17), Jordan Spieth (9,12,17), 18 June

    9. Last five Masters Tournament winners

    Adam Scott (12), Bubba Watson (12), 9 April

    10. Last five PGA Championship winners

    Jason Day (11,12), Jason Dufner (12), Jimmy Walker (12,17)

    11. Last three Players Championship winners

    Rickie Fowler (17), 14 May

    12. The 30 qualifiers for the 2016 Tour Championship

    Daniel Berger, Paul Casey, Roberto Castro, Kevin Chappell, Emiliano Grillo, Kim Si-woo, Kevin Kisner, Russell Knox, Matt Kuchar (17), Hideki Matsuyama (21), William McGirt, Ryan Moore (17), Kevin Na, Sean O'Hair, Patrick Reed (17), Brandt Snedeker (17), Justin Thomas, Jhonattan Vegas, Gary Woodland

    13. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2017 FedEx Cup points list through the Travelers Championship

    25 June

    14. Winner of the 2016 Olympic Golf Tournament
    15. Winner of the 2016 Open de Argentina

    Kent Bulle

    16. Winner and runner-up from the 2017 Korea Open

    4 June

    17. Playing members of the 2016 Ryder Cup teams

    Brooks Koepka

    18. Winner of the 2016 Asian Tour Order of Merit
    19. Winner of the 2016 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

    Matthew Griffin

    20. Winner of the 2016–17 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

    5 March

    21. Winner of the 2016 Japan Open
    22. Top 2 on the 2016 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List

    Yuta Ikeda, Hideto Tanihara

    23. Top 2, not already exempt, on the 2017 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List through the Japan Golf Tour Championship

    4 June

    24. Winner of the 2016 Senior Open Championship

    Paul Broadhurst

    25. Winner of the 2017 Amateur Championship

    24 June

    26. Winner of the 2016 U.S. Amateur

    Curtis Luck (a)

    27. Winner of the 2016 European Amateur

    Luca Cianchetti (a)

    28. Recipient of the 2016 Mark H. McCormack Medal

    Maverick McNealy (a)

    Open Qualifying Series

    The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) consists of 10 events from the six major tours. Places are available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finish in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions go to players ranked highest according to that week's OWGR.

    Final Qualifying

    The Final Qualifying events will be played on 4 July at four courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England. Three qualifying places are available at each location.

    Gailes LinksHillsideRoyal Cinque PortsWoburn
    Alternates

    To make up the full field of 156, additional places are allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking at the time that these places are made available by the Championship Committee.

    References

    2017 Open Championship Wikipedia