2014 Open Championship

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2014 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates 17–20 July 2014
Location Merseyside, England
Course(s) Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Tour(s)
Statistics
Field 156 players

The 2014 Open Championship will be the 142nd Open Championship, held 17–20 July at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Merseyside, England.

Venue

The 2014 event will be the 12th Open Championship played at Royal Liverpool.[1]

Field

Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.[2] Dates when a qualifying category will be completely determined are indicated in italics.

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 20 July 2014
Mark Calcavecchia (3), Stewart Cink (2,3), Darren Clarke (2,3), Ben Curtis, John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2,3,6,15), Todd Hamilton (2), Pádraig Harrington (2), Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard (3), Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (2,3,4,10,13,15), Mark O'Meara, Louis Oosthuizen (2,3,15), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,5,12,13,15)

2. The Open Champions for 2004–2013

3. The Open Champions finishing in the first 10 and tying for 10th place in The Open Championship 2009–2013
Tom Watson

4. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2013 Open Championship
Zach Johnson (13,15), Hunter Mahan (13,15), Hideki Matsuyama (15), Francesco Molinari (6), Ian Poulter (6), Adam Scott (10,13,15,17), Henrik Stenson (6,13), Lee Westwood (6)

5. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking for Week 21, 2014
25 May

6. First 30 in the Race to Dubai for 2013
Thomas Bjørn, Grégory Bourdy, Paul Casey, Jamie Donaldson, Victor Dubuisson, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Tommy Fleetwood, Stephen Gallacher, Sergio García (13), Branden Grace (15), David Howell, Mikko Ilonen, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Martin Kaymer (11), Joost Luiten, Matteo Manassero (7), Graeme McDowell (9), Justin Rose (9,13), Brett Rumford, Charl Schwartzel (10,13,15), Richard Sterne (15), Thongchai Jaidee, Peter Uihlein, Bernd Wiesberger, Chris Wood

7. The BMW PGA Championship winners for 2012–2014
Luke Donald (13), 25 May

8. First 5 European Tour members and any European Tour members tying for 5th place, not otherwise exempt, in the top 20 of the Race to Dubai on completion of the 2014 BMW International Open
29 June

9. The U.S. Open Champions for 2010–2014
Rory McIlroy (11), Webb Simpson (13,15), 15 June

10. The Masters Tournament Champions for 2010–2014
Bubba Watson, 13 April

11. The PGA Champions for 2009–2013
Keegan Bradley (13,15), Jason Dufner (13,15), Y. E. Yang

12. The Players Champions for 2012–2014
Matt Kuchar (13,15), 11 May

13. The leading 30 qualifiers for the 2013 Tour Championship
Roberto Castro, Jason Day (15), Brendon de Jonge (15), Graham DeLaet (15), Jim Furyk, Bill Haas (15), Billy Horschel, Dustin Johnson, D. A. Points, Brandt Snedeker (15), Jordan Spieth (15), Kevin Streelman, Steve Stricker (15), Nick Watney, Boo Weekley, Gary Woodland

14. First 5 PGA Tour members and any PGA Tour members tying for 5th place, not exempt in the top 20 of the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list for 2014 on completion of the 2014 Travelers Championship
22 June

15. Playing members of the 2013 Presidents Cup teams
Ángel Cabrera, Marc Leishman

16. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Asian Tour for 2013
Kiradech Aphibarnrat

17. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the PGA Tour of Australasia for 2013

18. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Southern Africa PGA Sunshine Tour for 2013
Dawie van der Walt

19. The Japan Open Champion for 2013
Masanori Kobayashi

20. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt, on the Official Money List of the Japan Golf Tour for 2013
Shingo Katayama, Kim Hyung-sung

21. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, in a cumulative money list taken from all official 2014 Japan Golf Tour events up to and including the 2014 Mizuno Open.
1 June

22. The Senior Open Champion for 2013
Mark Wiebe

23. The Amateur Champion for 2014
21 June

24. The U.S. Amateur Champion for 2013
Matthew Fitzpatrick (26,a)

25. The European Amateur Champion for 2013
Ashley Chesters (a)

26. The Mark H. McCormack Medal winner for 2013

Open Qualifying Series

Major changes have been made to the qualification categories.[3] There is now an Open Qualifying Series (OQS) which consists of 10 events from the six major tours. This series replaces International Final Qualifying. Places are available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finish in the top n and ties.

Location Tournament Date Spots Top Qualifiers
Australia Emirates Australian Open 1 Dec 3 10 Rhein Gibson, Bryden Macpherson, John Senden
Africa Joburg Open 2 Feb 3 10
Thailand TBD 7 Mar 4
Japan Mizuno Open 1 Jun 4 12
Ireland The Irish Open 22 Jun 3 10
USA AT&T National 29 Jun 4 12
France Alstom Open de France 6 Jul 3 10
USA Greenbrier Classic 6 Jul 4 12
Scotland Scottish Open 13 Jul 3 10
USA John Deere Classic 13 Jul 1 5

Final Qualifying

The venues for Final Qualifying have changed so that they will be played at four courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England and not at four courses near the Open Championship venue.

Gailes Links: – three spots, 1 July
Hillside: – three spots, 1 July
Royal Cinque Ports: – three spots, 1 July
Woburn: – three spots, 1 July
  • (a) denotes amateur


References

Preceded by
2014 U.S. Open
Major Championships Succeeded by
2014 PGA Championship

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