The qualifiers from Burnham and Berrow (together with Justin Rose and Abe Ancer).
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The U.S. Open isn’t the one main that options the emotion of a one-day 36-hole closing qualifier.
As the identify implies, the Open Championship conducts open qualifying, albeit on a a lot smaller scale than its American counterpart. Four 36-hole closing qualifiers have been held throughout Scotland and England Tuesday as a number of the recreation’s largest names (together with a number of LIV golfers) and people lesser-known tried to earn their means into the 152nd Open later this month at Royal Troon.
Just 4 spots have been accessible at every qualifier making for 16 spots in all.
Keep studying beneath for a rundown of every website together with qualifying gamers, notables who failed to qualify and extra.
Open Championship Final Qualifying websites
West Lancashire
4 spots accessible
Qualifiers:
Matthew Dodd-Berry (a), -6
Sam Horsfield
Daniel Brown, -5
Masahiro Kawamura
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Jack Hirsh
Notables who failed to qualify:
Sergio Garcia
Carlos Ortiz
Richard Mansell
Things to know:
– Sergio Garcia was trying to qualify for his a centesimal main however had a testy alternate with officers on the eighth gap of his first spherical after his group was placed on the clock. He missed the reduce by two photographs after rounds of 71-70.
– Ortiz, a LIV Golf winner earlier this yr, didn’t play in a serious 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
*Advanced by way of a 3-for-1 playoff
Notables who failed to qualify:
Branden Grace
Things to know:
– Southgate, who completed T6 at Royal Birkdale in 2017, will play his second-straight Open after not enjoying between 2018 and 2023.
– Both Luis Masaveu and Jaime Montojo Fernandez play out of the identical membership in Madrid, Royal Club 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 yr 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 serious, 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
*Advanced by way of a 3-for-1 playoff
Notables who failed to qualify:
Peter Uhlein
Robert Rock (Retired)
Things to know:
– Angel Hidalgo wanted to birdie his closing 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*
*Advanced out of 3-for-2 playoff
Notables who failed to qualify:
Anirban Lahiri
Justin Harding
Preston Summerhays (a) (WD)
Things to know:
– Rose was compelled to head to closing qualifying after falling out of the OWGR prime 50 in March and being unable to get again in earlier than the Open cutoff in May, after the Charles Schwab Challenge. He overcame a twelfth gap double in his second spherical to end as a co-medalist.
“There was obviously huge motivation,” he informed the R&A’s Final 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 always been super special and you can kind of take it for granted. As you get a little older, things get harder and in a way I think it’s a good thing to happen (having to qualify) as it makes you appreciate how special it is.”
– Abraham Ancer is the lone LIV golfer to advance to Royal Troon by way of closing qualifying.
