2024 Open Championship

The 2024 Open Championship, officially the 152nd Open Championship, is a golf tournament to be played from 18–21 July at Royal Troon Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland. It will be the tenth Open Championship played at the Old Course of Troon, and the sixth since gaining royal status.

152nd Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates18–21 July 2024
LocationAyrshire, Scotland
55.532°N 4.651°W / 55.532; -4.651
Course(s)Royal Troon Golf Club
Old Course
Organized byThe R&A
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par71
Length7,190 yd (6,575 m)
Field156 players
Location map
Royal Troon
Location in the United Kingdom
Royal Troon
Location in Scotland
Royal Troon

Organisation

The 2024 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 four days, with 18 holes played each day. Play will be 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 organizers, with each group having one morning and one afternoon tee time. On the final two days, players will tee off in reverse order of aggregate score, with the leaders last. After 36 holes there will be 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 three-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.[1]

Venue
Main article: Royal Troon Golf Club

The 2024 event will be the 10th Open Championship played at Royal Troon. The most recent was in 2016, when Henrik Stenson won the event by three strokes for his first 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. The previous Order of Merit exemptions for the Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia, and Sunshine Tour were replaced by a category based on the Official World Golf Ranking's International Federation Ranking List, and a new exemption was added for the winner of the Africa Amateur Championship; it was also announced that winners of the 2024 Open and future editions will remain exempt through age 55, instead of through age 60 as with previous winners.[2]

Criteria and exemptions

Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.[3]

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 21 July 2024

2. The Open Champions aged 55 or under on 21 July 2024 (for all Champions from 2024)

3. The Open Champions for 2013–2023[lower-alpha 1]

4. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2023 Open Championship

5. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2024

6. Top 30 in the final 2023 Race to Dubai rankings

7. Recent winners of the BMW PGA Championship (2021–2023)

8. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2024 Race to Dubai Rankings through the BMW International Open

  • 7 July

9. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2019–2024)

10. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2019–2024)

11. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2018–2024)

12. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2022–2024)

13. Top 30 players from the 2023 FedEx Cup points list

14. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2024 FedEx Cup points list through the Travelers Championship

15. Winner of the 2024 Visa Open de Argentina

  • Mason Andersen

16. Top five players from the OWGR's International Federation Ranking List as of closing date

17. Winner of the 2023 Japan Open Golf Championship

  • Aguri Iwasaki

18. Winner of the 2023 Senior Open Championship

19. Winner of the 2024 Amateur Championship[lower-alpha 4]

  • Jacob Skov Olesen (a)

20. Winner of the 2022 U.S. Amateur[lower-alpha 4]

21. Winner of the 2024 European Amateur[lower-alpha 4]

  • Tommy Morrison (a)

22. Recipient of the 2023 Mark H. McCormack Medal[lower-alpha 4]

23. Winner of the 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship[lower-alpha 4]

  • Jasper Stubbs (a)

24. Winner of the 2024 Latin America Amateur Championship[lower-alpha 4]

  • Santiago de la Fuente (a)

25. Winner of the 2024 Open Amateur Series[lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 6]

  • Calum Scott (a)

26. Winner of the 2024 Africa Amateur Championship[lower-alpha 4]

  • Altin van der Merwe (a)

27. Medical exemption

Open Qualifying Series

The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) for the 2024 Open Championship consists of 12 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. 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.[6]

LocationTournamentDateSpotsQualifiers
South AfricaJoburg Open26 Nov 20233Dan Bradbury, Dean Burmester, Darren Fichardt
AustraliaISPS Handa Australian Open3 Dec 20233Rikuya Hoshino, Joaquín Niemann, Adam Scott
MalaysiaIRS Prima Malaysian Open18 Feb 20243Denwit Boriboonsub, John Catlin, Wang Jeung-hun[lower-alpha 3]
United StatesArnold Palmer Invitational10 Mar 20241Brendon Todd[lower-alpha 2]
JapanGateway to The Open Mizuno Open26 May 20243Yuto Katsuragawa, Ryosuke Kinoshita, Koh Gun-taek
CanadaRBC Canadian Open2 Jun 20243Ben Griffin, Mackenzie Hughes, Maverick McNealy
United StatesMemorial Tournament9 Jun 20241Adam Hadwin
KoreaKolon Korea Open23 Jun 20242Kim Min-kyu, Song Young-han
NetherlandsKLM Open23 Jun 20242Joe Dean, Guido Migliozzi
ItalyItalian Open30 Jun 20242
United StatesJohn Deere Classic7 Jul 20242
ScotlandGenesis Scottish Open14 Jul 20243

Final Qualifying

Regional qualifying events were held on 24 June at 15 locations.[7] Final Qualifying events will be played on 2 July at four locations, with a minimum of 16 total places available.[8]

LocationSpotsQualifiers
Burnham & Berrow
Dundonald Links
Royal Cinque Ports
West Lancashire

Notes
  1. All will be aged 60 or under on 21 July 2024.
  2. Will Zalatoris initially qualified through the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but after he subsequently qualified through category 5, his OQS spot was reallocated to Brendon Todd.
  3. David Puig initially qualified through the IRS Prima Malaysian Open, but after he subsequently qualified through category 16, his OQS spot was reallocated to John Catlin.
  4. Players must remain amateurs in order to be exempt under this category.
  5. Dunlap forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
  6. Cumulative World Amateur Golf Ranking points from the St Andrews Links Trophy, The Amateur Championship and European Amateur.
  7. Hendry qualified for the 2023 Open but was unable to play after being diagnosed with leukemia in May 2023.[4][5]

References
  1. Herrington, Ryan (23 July 2023). "British Open playoff 2023: The format, rules and holes played at Royal Liverpool". Golf Digest. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  2. Cunningham, Kevin (6 March 2024). "R&A makes surprising changes to Open Championship exemptions for 2024". Golf Magazine. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  3. "The 152nd Open | Exemptions". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  4. Webeck, Tony (16 May 2023). "Hendry withdraws from The Open to fight cancer battle". PGA of Australia. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  5. "Cancer-free Hendry gets special invite to Open Championship". RNZ. 7 March 2024. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  6. "The Open Qualifying Series / All You Need To Know". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  7. "Regional Qualifying". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  8. "Final Qualifying". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
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