2023 Open Championship field: Here’s who’s playing at Royal Liverpool

Main season is coming to an finish this week (for the boys, no less than) because the skilled golf world houses in on Royal Liverpool, internet hosting the game’s oldest championship for the thirteenth time. Right here’s the whole lot it’s essential to know concerning the 156 golfers teeing it up on the 151st Open Championship.

2023 Open Championship preview

A return to Hoylake additionally means a return to the positioning of Rory McIlroy’s only Open Championship victory.

Coming into the week because the No. 2 participant within the Official World Golf Rankings, McIlroy would be the clear favourite to deliver dwelling a second Claret Jug after winning last week at the Genesis Scottish Open. He’ll be trying to win a nine-year main drought, going winless since his victories at each the Open and PGA Championship in 2014.

McIlroy faces a transparent problem from quite a lot of gamers, most notably Scottie Scheffler and Cam Smith. Smith is the defending champion after he putted lights out at St. Andrews to catch and move McIlroy on the ultimate 9 a 12 months in the past. Like McIlroy, Smith additionally received his closing pre-Open begin at LIV Golf London. Scheffler, in the meantime, is the No. 1 participant on this planet and hasn’t completed exterior the top-12 in a begin since final October.

Who’s exempt into the Open?

The R&A, which runs the Open, lists 27 standards for incomes an exemption into the sphere at Hoylake. The remainder of the sphere is filled out by open qualifying and the Open Qualifying Sequence. The exemptions are as follows.

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or beneath on 23 July 2023
2. The Open Champions for 2012–2022 (no matter age)
3. Prime 10 finishers and ties within the 2022 Open Championship
4. Prime 50 gamers within the Official World Golf Rating (OWGR) for Week 21, 2023
5. Prime 30 within the closing 2022 DP World Tour Rankings
6. Latest winners of the BMW PGA Championship (2019–2022)
7. Prime 5 gamers, not already exempt, throughout the high 20 of the 2023 Race to Dubai by means of the BMW Worldwide Open
8. Latest winners of the U.S. Open (2018–2023)
9. Latest winners of the Masters Match (2018–2023)
10. Latest winners of the PGA Championship (2017–2023)
11. Latest winners of The Gamers Championship (2021–2023)
12. The highest 30 gamers from the 2022 FedEx Cup factors listing
13. Prime 5 gamers, not already exempt, throughout the high 20 of the 2022–23 FedEx Cup factors listing by means of the Vacationers Championship
14. Winner of the 2022 Visa Open de Argentina
15. Winner of the 2022–23 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Advantage
16. Winner of the 2022–23 Sunshine Tour Order of Advantage
17. Winner of the 2022 Japan Open Golf Championship
18. Prime two gamers on the 2022 Japan Golf Tour Official Cash Listing
19. The highest participant, not already exempt, on the 2023 Japan Golf Tour Official Cash Listing by means of the BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Constructing Cup
20. Winner of the 2022 Senior Open Championship
21. Winner of the 2023 Newbie Championship
22. Winner of the 2022 U.S. Newbie
23. Winner of the 2023 European Newbie
24. Recipient of the 2022 Mark H. McCormack Medal
25. Winner of the 2022 Asia-Pacific Newbie Championship
26. Winner of the 2023 Latin America Newbie Championship
27. Winner of the 2023 Open Newbie Sequence

2023 Open Championship subject

Abraham Ancer

Adri Arnaus

Jose Luis Ballester Barrio (a)

Kyle Barker

Haydn Barron

Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Alexander Bjork

Richard Bland

Dan Bradbury

Keegan Bradley

Sam Burns

Jorge Campillo

Alejandro Canizares

Laurie Canter

Patrick Cantlay

Tiger Christensen (a)

Stewart Zinc

Wyndham Clark

Darren Clarke

Corey Conners

Harrison Crowe

John Daly

Jason Day

Bryson DeChambeau

Thomas Detry

Ernie Els

Nacho Elvira

Harris English

Oliver Farr

Ewen Ferguson

Matthew Fernandez De Oliveira (a)

Tony Finau

Zack Fischer

Alex Fitzpatrick

Matt Fitzpatrick

Tommy Fleetwood

Rickie Fowler

Ryan Fox

Talor Gooch

Model Grace

Ben Griffin

Emiliano Grillo

Seungsu Han

Brian Harman

Padraig Harrington

Tyrrell Hatton

Russell Henley

Lucas Herbert

Kazuki Higa

Daniel Hillier

Kensei Hirata

Lee Hodges

Tom Hoge

Nicolai Hojgaard

Rasmus Hojgaard

Max Homa

Billy Horschel

Rikuya Hoshino

Viktor Hovland

Sunjae Im

Hiroshi Iwata

Jazz Janewattananond

Dustin Johnson

Zach Johnson

Matthew Jordan

Takumi Kanaya

Kyung Nam Kang

Taichi Kho

It was Kim

Michael Kim

Si Woo Kim

Tom Kim

Chris Kirk

Kurt Kitayama

Brooks Koepka

Christo Lamprecht (a)

Romain Langasque

Pablo Larrazabal

Tristan Lawrence

KH Lee

Min Woo Lee

David Lingmerth

Hurly Lengthy

Shane Lowry

Joost Luiten

Robert MacIntyre

Alex Maguire (a)

Hideki Matsuyama

Denny McCarthy

Rory McIlroy

Connor McKinney

Adrian Meronk

David Micheluzzi

Phil Mickelson

Guido Migliozzi

Francis Molinari

Taylor Moore

Collin Morikawa

Trey Mullinax

Keita Nakajima

Joaquin Niemann

Alex Noren

Thorbjorn Olesen

Louis Oosthuizen

Adrian Otaegui

Yannik Paul

Marco Cash

Victor Perez

Thomas Pieters

JT Poston

Seamus Energy

Andrew Putnam

Jon Rahm

Richie Ramsay

Patrick Reed

Davis Riley

Graeme Robertson

Brandon Robinson Thompson

Martin Rohwer

Justin Rose

Antoine Rozner

Kalle Samoa

Xander Schauffele

Scottie Scheffler

Adam Schenk

Charl Schwartzel

Adam Scott

Taiga Semikawa

Shubhankar Sharma

Callum Shinkwin

Marcel Siem

Cameron Smith

Jordan Smith

Travis Smyth

Matthew Southgate

Jordan Spieth

Scott Stallings

Henrik Stenson

Michael Stewart

Sepp Straka

Ockie Strydom

Connor Syme

Nick Taylor

Sahith Theegala

Justin Thomas

Brendon Todd

Sami Välimäki

Matt Wallace

Marc Warren

Gunner Wiebe

Danny Willett

Oliver Wilson

Gary Woodland

Kazuki Yasumori

Cameron Younger