2023 Open Championship

The 2023 Open Championship, officially the 151st Open Championship, is a golf tournament to be played on 20–23 July 2023 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside, England. This will be the 13th time that The Open will be played at Royal Liverpool.

151st Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates20–23 July 2023
LocationHoylake, Merseyside, England
53.385°N 3.190°W / 53.385; -3.190
Course(s)Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Organized byThe R&A
Tour(s)
Statistics
Field156 players
Location Map
Royal Liverpool is located in the United Kingdom
Royal Liverpool
Royal Liverpool
Location in the United Kingdom
Royal Liverpool is located in England
Royal Liverpool
Royal Liverpool
Location in England
Royal Liverpool is located in Merseyside
Royal Liverpool
Royal Liverpool
Location in Merseyside

Organisation

The Open Championship is organised by the R&A, and is included in the PGA Tour, European Tour, and Japan Golf Tour calendars under the major championships category. The tournament is a 72-hole (4 rounds) stroke play competition held over 4 days, with 18 holes played each day. Play is in groups of three for the first two days, and groups of two in the final two days. Groupings for the first two days are decided by the organisers, with each group having one morning, and one afternoon tee time. On the final two days, players tee off in reverse order of aggregate score, with the leaders last. After 36 holes there was a cut, after which the top 70 and ties progress through to compete in the third and fourth rounds. In the event of a tie for the lowest score after four rounds, a four-hole aggregate playoff will be held to determine the winner; this will be followed by sudden-death extra holes if necessary until a winner emerges.

Venue
Main article: Royal Liverpool Golf Club

The 2023 event will be the 13th Open Championship played at Royal Liverpool.[1] The most recent was in 2014, when Rory McIlroy won the event by two strokes for his fourth major title.

Field

The Open Championship field is made up of 156 players, who gained entry through various exemption criteria and qualifying tournaments. 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.

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 1]

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

  • 29 May

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 Rankings through the BMW International Open

  • 25 June

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 Playoffs

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

  • 25 June

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

17. Winner of the 2022 Japan Open Golf Championship

  • Taiga Semikawa

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

19. The top player on the 2023 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List through the Japan Golf Tour Championship

  • 4 June

20. Winner of the 2022 Senior Open Championship

21. Winner of the 2023 Amateur Championship[lower-alpha 2]

  • 24 June

22. Winner of the 2022 U.S. Amateur[lower-alpha 2]

23. Winner of the 2023 European Amateur[lower-alpha 2]

  • 1 July

24. Recipient of the 2022 Mark H. McCormack Medal[lower-alpha 2]

25. Winner of the 2021 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship[lower-alpha 2]

  • Harrison Crowe (a)

26. Winner of the 2023 Latin America Amateur Championship[lower-alpha 2]

  • Mateo Fernández de Oliveira (a)

27. Winner of the 2023 Open Amateur Series[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 4]

  • 1 July

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.[5]

LocationTournamentDateSpotsQualifiersRef.
South AfricaJoburg Open27 Nov 20223Dan Bradbury, Sami Välimäki, Christiaan Bezuidenhout[6]
AustraliaISPS Handa Australian Open4 Dec 20223Min Woo Lee, Haydn Barron, Alejandro Cañizares[7]
United StatesArnold Palmer Invitational5 Mar 20233Kurt Kitayama, Harris English, Davis Riley[8]
Hong KongWorld City Championship26 Mar 20234Michael Hendry,[lower-alpha 5] Kho Taichi, Kim Bi-o, Travis Smyth[10]
United StatesWells Fargo Championship7 May 20233Wyndham Clark, Michael Kim, Denny McCarthy[11]
JapanGateway to The Open Mizuno Open28 May 20234
United StatesMemorial Tournament4 Jun 20233
KoreaKolon Korea Open25 Jun 20232
EnglandBetfred British Masters2 Jul 20233
DenmarkMade in HimmerLand9 Jul 20233
ScotlandGenesis Scottish Open16 Jul 20233

Final Qualifying

Regional qualifying events will be held on 26 June at 14 locations.[12] Final Qualifying events will be played on 4 July at four locations.[13]

LocationQualifiers
Burnham & Berrow
Dundonald Links
Royal Cinque Ports
West Lancashire

Notes
  1. All will be aged 60 or under on 23 July 2023.
  2. Players must remain amateurs in order to be exempt under this category.
  3. Nakajima forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
  4. Cumulative World Amateur Golf Ranking points from the St Andrews Links Trophy, The Amateur Championship and European Amateur.
  5. Michael Hendry will not play after being diagnosed with leukemia in May 2023.[9]

References
  1. McLauchlin, Brian; O'Neill, George (12 July 2022). "The Open: Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Jon Rahm on St Andrews Old Course". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  2. "R&A removes Open Championship exemptions for Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, will still allow LIV golfers". CBS Sports. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  3. Beall, Joel (21 February 2023). "R&A announces Open Championship exemptions; LIV Golf players remain in field". Golf Digest. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  4. "The 151st Open | Exemptions". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  5. "The Open Qualifying Series / All You Need To Know". The Open. The R&A. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  6. "Joburg Open | Bradbury among trio to qualify for The 151st Open". The Open. The R&A. 27 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  7. "ISPS Handa Australian Open | Three more qualify for Royal Liverpool". The Open. The R&A. 4 December 2022. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  8. "Kitayama leads trio of Bay Hill qualifiers". The Open. The R&A. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  9. Webeck, Tony (16 May 2023). "Hendry withdraws from The Open to fight cancer battle". PGA of Australia. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  10. "Home winner Kho leads Hong Kong qualifiers". The Open. The R&A. 26 March 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  11. "Wells Fargo | Wyndham Clark, Michael Kim and Denny McCarthy qualify for The 151st Open". The Open. The R&A. 7 May 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  12. "Regional Qualifying". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  13. "Final Qualifying". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
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