The 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon has arrived, brining with it the final major championship of the 2024 season.
Like its preceding major, the U.S. Open, the UK’s national championship also has open qualifying, although not to the same scale as the U.S.’s national championship.
A total of 16 players in the field at Royal Troon earned their way to the Open by way of one of four Open Final Qualifiers held around the U.K. two weeks ago, just a fraction of those who advance through U.S. Open final qualifying.
To supplement the rest of the field, the R&A designates several tournaments on the PGA, DP World and Asian Tours as “Open Qualifying Series” events and awards one to three spots in the Open Championship field to the best finishers not already qualified.
These Open Qualifying Series events started way back in November and December with events in South Africa and Australia, but the final one was just this past week at the Genesis Scottish Open. Interestingly, that has caused a slight wrinkle in this year’s field.
As of the start of the Scottish Open last week, there were already 155 players who were exempt or qualified for the Open, a traditional full field. When the last three spots were given to the top three not-otherwise qualified from Renaissance Club (Aaron Rai, Alex Noren and Richard Mansell), that pushed the field to 158 players. The R&A has accommodated this and will simply add an additional twosome to the tee sheet for the first and second rounds.
The last time more than 158 players teed off at the Open was 1995 when John Daly won at St. Andrews.
Keep reading below for the entire 158-man field at Royal Troon.
2024 Open Championship field
Ludvig Aberg
Byeong Hun An
Abraham Ancer
Mason Andersen
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Akshay Bhatia
Alexander Bjork
Denwit Boriboonsub
Dan Bradbury
Keegan Bradley
Daniel Brown
Dean Burmester
Sam Burns
Jorge Campillo
Laurie Canter
Patrick Cantlay
John Catlin
Alex Cejka
Stewart Cink
Wyndham Clark
Darren Clarke
Dominic Clemons (a)
Eric Cole
Corey Conners
Sean Crocker
John Daly
Jason Day
Santiago de la Fuente (a)
Joe Dean
Bryson DeChambeau
Matthew Dodd-Berry (a)
Austin Eckroat
Ernie Els
Nacho Elvira
Harris English
Ewen Ferguson
Darren Fichardt
Tony Finau
Matt Fitzpatrick
Tommy Fleetwood
Rickie Fowler
Ryan Fox
Lucas Glover
Ben Griffin
Emiliano Grillo
Adam Hadwin
Todd Hamilton
Brian Harman
Padraig Harrington
Tyrrell Hatton
Michael Hendry
Russell Henley
Angel Hidalgo
Daniel Hillier
Ryo Hisatsune
Tom Hoge
Nicolai Hojgaard
Rasmus Hojgaard
Max Homa
Billy Horschel
Sam Horsfield
Rikuya Hoshino
Viktor Hovland
Mackenzie Hughes
Sam Hutsby
Sungjae Im
Aguri Iwasaki
Stephan Jaeger
Dustin Johnson
Zach Johnson
Matthew Jordan
Yuto Katsuragawa
Masahiro Kawamura
Minkyu Kim
Si Woo Kim
Tom Kim
Ryosuke Kinoshita
Chris Kirk
Kurt Kitayama
Kazuma Kobori
Brooks Koepka
Gun-Taek Koh
Romain Langasque
Thriston Lawrence
Min Woo Lee
Justin Leonard
Charlie Lindh
Shane Lowry
Joost Luiten
Robert MacIntyre
