2017 Open Championship

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.

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

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

21 May

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)

An Byeong-hun, 28 May

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

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

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

Rickie Fowler (17), 14 May

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

25 June

Kent Bulle

4 June

Brooks Koepka

Matthew Griffin

5 March

Yuta Ikeda, Hideto Tanihara

4 June

Paul Broadhurst

24 June

Curtis Luck (a)

Luca Cianchetti (a)

Maverick McNealy (a)

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.

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.

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.