Open Championship Closing Qualifying: See who made it to Royal Troon

The U.S. Open isn’t the one main that options the emotion of a one-day 36-hole last qualifier.

Because the identify implies, the Open Championship conducts open qualifying, albeit on a a lot smaller scale than its American counterpart. 4 36-hole last qualifiers had been held throughout Scotland and England Tuesday as a number of the recreation’s greatest names (together with a number of LIV golfers) and people lesser-known tried to earn their manner into the 152nd Open later this month at Royal Troon.

Simply 4 spots had been accessible at every qualifier making for 16 spots in all.

Maintain studying beneath for a rundown of every website together with qualifying gamers, notables who didn’t qualify and extra.

Open Championship Closing Qualifying websites

West Lancashire
4 spots accessible

Qualifiers:
Matthew Dodd-Berry (a), -6
Sam Horsfield
Daniel Brown, -5
Masahiro Kawamura

Notables who didn’t qualify:
Sergio Garcia
Carlos Ortiz
Richard Mansell

Issues to know:

– Sergio Garcia was making an attempt to qualify for his one centesimal main however had a testy exchange with officials on the 8th hole of his first spherical after his group was placed on the clock. He missed the lower by two photographs after rounds of 71-70.

– Ortiz, a LIV Golf winner earlier this 12 months, didn’t play in a significant this season and has solely performed in a single since becoming a member of LIV Golf in 2022.

Royal Cinque Ports
4 spots accessible

Qualifiers:
Matthew Southgate, -6
Elvis Smylie, -3
Jamie Montojo Fernandez
Luis Masaveu* (a), -2

*Superior through a 3-for-1 playoff

Notables who didn’t qualify:
Branden Grace

Issues to know:

– Southgate, who completed T6 at Royal Birkdale in 2017, will play his second-straight Open after not enjoying between 2018 and 2023.

– Each Luis Masaveu and Jaime Montojo Fernandez play out of the identical membership in Madrid, Royal Membership La Moraleja

– On the second playoff gap, Masaveu received the ultimate spot by making a few 25-foot birdie putt from outdoors his rivals, which included Grace.

– Grace has not performed any majors this 12 months and has performed in two since becoming a member of LIV Golf in 2022. He was the primary golfer ever to shoot 62 in a significant, doing so on the 2017 Open Championship.

Dundonald Links
4 spots accessible

Qualifiers:
Sam Hutsby, -8
Angel Hidalgo, -5
Liam Nolan (a)
Jack McDonald*, -4

*Superior through a 3-for-1 playoff

Notables who didn’t qualify:
Peter Uhlein
Robert Rock (Retired)

Issues to know:

– Angel Hidalgo wanted to birdie his last gap Tuesday to get in a playoff. He did one higher by holing his second shot from 120 yards to guarantee his spot within the Open Championship.

Burnham and Berrow
4 spots accessible

Qualifiers:
Justin Rose, -8
Dominic Clemons (a)
Abraham Ancer*, -5
Charlie Lindh*

*Superior out of 3-for-2 playoff

Notables who didn’t qualify:
Anirban Lahiri
Justin Harding
Preston Summerhays (a) (WD)

Issues to know:

– Rose was compelled to go to last qualifying after falling out of the OWGR high 50 in March and being unable to get again in earlier than the Open cutoff in Might, after the Charles Schwab Problem. He overcame a twelfth gap double in his second spherical to complete as a co-medalist.

“There was clearly large motivation,” he instructed the R&A’s Closing Qualifying Radio. “The Open has been a little bit of a fairytale and love story for me since I used to be 14, to be sincere with you.

“The Open has all the time been tremendous particular and you’ll type of take it as a right. As you get slightly older, issues get tougher and in a manner I feel it’s factor to occur (having to qualify) because it makes you admire how particular it’s.”

– Abraham Ancer is the lone LIV golfer to advance to Royal Troon by means of last qualifying.

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