2014 Open Championship

2014 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates 17–20 July 2014
Location Merseyside, England
Course(s) Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Organized by The R&A
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par 72
Length 7,312 yd (6,686 m)
Field 156 players, 72 after cut
Cut 146 (+2)
Prize fund £5.400 million[1]
€6.776 million
$9.226 million
Winner's share £975,000[1]
€1,223,450
$1,665,788
Champion
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy
271 (−17)
«2013
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Hoylake
Location in England
Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside,
west of Liverpool, England

The 2014 Open Championship was the 143rd Open Championship, held 17–20 July 2014 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Merseyside, England.

It was the 12th Open Championship played at Royal Liverpool.[2] Rory McIlroy won his first Open Championship, 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Rickie Fowler and Sergio García, and became only the 6th player to win the tournament going wire-to-wire after 72 holes (with no ties after rounds). It was McIlroy's third major title, having won the 2011 U.S. Open and 2012 PGA Championship; he became the first European to win 3 different majors and joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as one of only three golfers since the first Masters Tournament started in 1934 to win three majors by the age of 25.[3]

Venue

The 2014 event was the 12th Open Championship played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. The most recent was in 2006, with Tiger Woods winning his second consecutive Open Championship title, holding off Chris DiMarco with a two-shot victory. The first open at the venue was in 1897, won by amateur Harold Hilton by a stroke ahead of James Braid.

HoleNameYardsPar HoleNameYardsPar
117 – Royal4584 10 8 – Far5325
218 – Stand454411 9 – Punch Bowl3914
3 1 – Course42641210 – Dee4474
4 2 – Road37241311 – Alps1943
5 3 – Long52851412 – Hilbre4544
6 4 – New20131513 – Rushes1613
7 5 – Telegraph48041614 – Field5775
8 6 – Briars43141715 – Lake4584
9 7 – Dowie19731816 – Dun5515
Out3,54735In3,76537
Source[4][5][6] Total7,31272

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1947):[7]

Field

Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.[9][10]

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 20 July 2014
Stewart Cink (2,3), Darren Clarke (2,3), Ben Curtis, John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2,3,6,15), Nick Faldo, Todd Hamilton (2), Pádraig Harrington (2), Paul Lawrie, Justin Leonard (3), Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (2,3,4,5,10,13,15), Louis Oosthuizen (2,3,5,15), 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 (5,13,15), Hunter Mahan (5,13,15), Hideki Matsuyama (5,15,20), Francesco Molinari (5,6), Ian Poulter (5,6), Adam Scott (5,10,13,15,17), Henrik Stenson (5,6,13), Lee Westwood (5,6)

5. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2014
Thomas Bjørn (6), Jonas Blixt, Keegan Bradley (11,13,15), Jason Day (13,15), Graham Delaet (13,15), Luke Donald (7,13), Jamie Donaldson (6), Victor Dubuisson (6), Jason Dufner (11,13,15), Harris English, Matt Every, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk (13), Stephen Gallacher (6), Sergio García (6,13), Bill Haas (13,15), Russell Henley, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (6), Dustin Johnson (13), Matt Jones, Martin Kaymer (6,9,11,12), Chris Kirk, Matt Kuchar (12,13,15), Joost Luiten (6), Graeme McDowell (6,9), Rory McIlroy (7,9,11), Ryan Moore, Ryan Palmer, Patrick Reed, Justin Rose (6,9,13), Charl Schwartzel (6,10,13,15), John Senden (Open Qualifying Series – Australia), Webb Simpson (9,13,15), Brandt Snedeker (13,15), Jordan Spieth (13,15), Jimmy Walker, Bubba Watson (10), Gary Woodland (13)

6. First 30 in the Race to Dubai for 2013
Grégory Bourdy, Paul Casey, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Tommy Fleetwood, Branden Grace (15), David Howell, Mikko Ilonen, Thongchai Jaidee, Matteo Manassero (7), Brett Rumford, Richard Sterne (15), Peter Uihlein, Bernd Wiesberger, Chris Wood

7. The BMW PGA Championship winners for 2012–2014

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
Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Pablo Larrazábal, Shane Lowry

9. The U.S. Open Champions for 2010–2014

10. The Masters Tournament Champions for 2010–2014

11. The PGA Champions for 2009–2013
Y. E. Yang

12. The Players Champions for 2012–2014

13. The leading 30 qualifiers for the 2013 Tour Championship
 Roberto Castro, Brendon de Jonge (15), Billy Horschel, D. A. Points, Kevin Streelman, Nick Watney, Boo Weekley

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
Kevin Na, Brendon Todd

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
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 Japan Golf Tour Championship.
Yūsaku Miyazato, Koumei Oda

22. The Senior Open Champion for 2013
Mark Wiebe

23. The Amateur Champion for 2014
Bradley Neil (a)

24. The U.S. Amateur Champion for 2013

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

26. The Mark H. McCormack Medal winner for 2013

Open Qualifying Series

Major changes were made to the qualification categories.[16] There is now an Open Qualifying Series (OQS) which consists of 10 events from the six major tours. This series largely replaces International Final Qualifying. Places are available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finish in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions go to players highest according to that week's OWGR.

Location Tournament Date Spots Top Qualifiers
Australia Emirates Australian Open 1 Dec 3 10 Rhein Gibson, Bryden Macpherson, John Senden
Africa Joburg Open 9 Feb 3 10 George Coetzee, Jin Jeong, Justin Walters
Thailand 36-hole qualifier 7 Mar 4 n/a Hiroshi Iwata, Pan Cheng-tsung (a), Yoshinobu Tsukada, Wu Ashun
Japan Mizuno Open 1 Jun 4 12 Jang Dong-kyu, Kim Hyung-tae, Tomohiro Kondo, Juvic Pagunsan
Ireland The Irish Open 22 Jun 3 10 Matthew Baldwin, Edoardo Molinari, Danny Willett
USA Quicken Loans National 29 Jun 4 12 Charley Hoffman, Ben Martin, Brendan Steele, Shawn Stefani
France Alstom Open de France 6 Jul 3 10 Michael Hoey, Robert Karlsson, Victor Riu
USA Greenbrier Classic 6 Jul 4 12 Billy Hurley III, George McNeill, Chris Stroud, Cameron Tringale
Scotland Scottish Open 13 Jul 3 10 Kristoffer Broberg, Tyrrell Hatton, Scott Jamieson
USA John Deere Classic 13 Jul 1 5 Brian Harman

Final Qualifying

Unlike in previous years, the Final Qualifying events were 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: – Paul McKechnie, Jamie McLeary, Marc Warren
Hillside: – Oscar Florén, Chris Hanson, John Singleton
Sunningdale:[17][18] – An Byeong-hun, Chris Rodgers, Matthew Southgate
Woburn: – Paul Dunne (a), Rhys Enoch, Oliver Fisher

McKechnie and Singleton had earlier played in Regional Qualifying, at Bruntsfield Links and Mere, respectively.

Alternates

To make up the full field of 156, additional places were allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking at the time that these places were made available by the Championship Committee. Any places made available after the week 27 rankings issued on 6 July 2014 used these week 27 rankings.[10] Ten places were made available on 2 July and so ten players were added based on the week 26 rankings.[19][20]

  1. Kevin Stadler (ranked 62, week 26)
  2. J. B. Holmes (63)
  3. K. J. Choi (66)
  4. Erik Compton (72)
  5. Charles Howell III (73) – withdrew for family reasons[21]
  6. Brooks Koepka (74)
  7. Chesson Hadley (76)
  8. Fredrik Jacobson (79)
  9. Anirban Lahiri (81)
  10. Scott Stallings (82)
  11. Thorbjørn Olesen (84) – replaced Charles Howell III[21]
  12. Ryo Ishikawa (ranked 76, week 27) – replaced Steve Stricker[14]
  13. Ross Fisher (90) – replaced Mark O'Meara[12]
  14. David Hearn (94) – replaced Mark Calcavecchia[13]
(a) denotes amateur

Nationalities in the field

North America (58)South America (1)Europe (59)Oceania (8)Asia (21)Africa (9)
 Canada (2)  Argentina (1)  England (19)  Australia (8)  China (1)  South Africa (8)
 United States (56)  Northern Ireland (4)  India (1)  Zimbabwe (1)
 Scotland (8)  Japan (8)
 Wales (2)  South Korea (7)
 Ireland (3)  Philippines (1)
 Austria (1)  Taiwan (1)
 Denmark (2)  Thailand (2)
 Finland (1)
 France (3)
 Germany (1)
 Italy (3)
 Netherlands (1)
 Spain (5)
 Sweden (6)

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player Country Year(s) won R1 R2 R3 R4 Total To par Finish
Phil Mickelson  United States 2013 74 70 71 68 283 −5 T23
Darren Clarke  Northern Ireland 2011 72 72 67 73 284 −4 T26
Louis Oosthuizen  South Africa 2010 70 68 76 72 286 −2 T36
Stewart Cink  United States 2009 71 75 73 69 288 E T47
Tom Watson  United States 1975, 1977,
1980, 1982, 1983 		73 73 75 68 289 +1 T51
Tiger Woods  United States 2000, 2005, 2006 69 77 73 75 294 +6 69

Missed the cut

Player Country Year(s) won R1 R2 Total To par
Justin Leonard  United States 1997 74 73 147 +3
Ben Curtis  United States 2003 74 74 148 +4
John Daly United States 1995 77 71 148 +4
Todd Hamilton  United States 2004 77 74 151 +7
David Duval  United States 2001 73 79 152 +8
Ernie Els  South Africa 2002, 2012 79 73 152 +8
Pádraig Harrington  Ireland 2007, 2008 74 78 152 +8
Nick Faldo  England 1987, 1990, 1992 76 77 153 +9
Paul Lawrie  Scotland 1999 79 74 153 +9
Sandy Lyle  Scotland 1985 82 84 166 +22

Source:[22]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 17 July 2014

Rory McIlroy shot a bogey-free round of 66 (−6) to take a one-stroke lead over Matteo Manassero.[23] World number one Adam Scott, Sergio García, brothers Edoardo and Francesco Molinari, Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka and Jim Furyk were another shot further back at 68 (−4).[24] Three-time champion Tiger Woods, playing in his first major championship of the year following back surgery, rebounded from bogeys on his first two holes to post a round of 69 (−3).[25]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1 Rory McIlroy  Northern Ireland 66 −6
2 Matteo Manassero  Italy 67 −5
T3 Jim Furyk  United States 68 −4
Sergio García  Spain
Brooks Koepka  United States
Shane Lowry  Ireland
Edoardo Molinari  Italy
Francesco Molinari  Italy
Adam Scott  Australia
T10 Rickie Fowler  United States 69 −3
Robert Karlsson  Sweden
Marc Leishman  Australia
Hideki Matsuyama  Japan
Koumei Oda  Japan
Yoshinobu Tsukada  Japan
Jimmy Walker  United States
Boo Weekley  United States
Tiger Woods  United States

Second round

Friday, 18 July 2014

Rory McIlroy shot a second consecutive round of 66 (−6) to post a 132 total (−12) and a four-shot lead after 36 holes.[26] Dustin Johnson had the lowest round of the tournament with a 65 (−7) to move into second place.[27]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1 Rory McIlroy  Northern Ireland 66-66=132 −12
2 Dustin Johnson  United States 71-65=136 −8
T3 Rickie Fowler  United States 69-69=138 −6
Sergio García  Spain 68-70=138
Francesco Molinari  Italy 68-70=138
Ryan Moore  United States 70-68=138
Louis Oosthuizen  South Africa 70-68=138
Charl Schwartzel  South Africa 71-67=138
T9 George Coetzee  South Africa 70-69=139 −5
Jim Furyk  United States 68-71=139
Marc Warren  Scotland 71-68=139

Third round

Saturday, 19 July 2014

In anticipation of an approaching severe storm with lightning Saturday afternoon, the R&A announced Friday that the third round would be played off both the 1st and 10th tees in threesomes. Normal play is from only the first tee in pairs. This was the first time that play went off both tees at The Open.[28]

Rickie Fowler, beginning the round six shots behind leader Rory McIlroy, recorded birdies on 7 of his first 12 holes to pull into a tie for the lead at 12-under. Still tied, Fowler made bogey on the 14th, while McIlroy made a 35-foot (11 m) putt for birdie and a two-shot swing which gave him the lead again. At the par-5 16th, Fowler made another bogey to drop into a tie for second with playing partner Sergio García.[29] McIlroy then eagled the hole to take a 5-shot lead after the three-shot swing with Fowler. All three players bogeyed the 17th. At the par-5 18th, García made par and Fowler made birdie, but McIlroy hit his approach to 6 feet (1.8 m) and made another eagle, pushing his lead to six shots after 54 holes. McIlroy was the only person to eagle the 16th and 18th holes in the third round. Going into the closing round, McIlroy was within three shots of both the Open scoring record to par and the record score to par for all major championships, both of which are −19. The severe storms expected never materialized, although heavy showers preceded and followed third round play.[30]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1 Rory McIlroy  Northern Ireland 66-66-68=200 −16
2 Rickie Fowler  United States 69-69-68=206 −10
T3 Sergio García  Spain 68-70-69=207 −9
Dustin Johnson  United States 71-65-71=207
5 Victor Dubuisson  France 74-66-68=208 −8
6 Edoardo Molinari  Italy 68-73-68=209 −7
T7 Jim Furyk  United States 68-71-71=210 −6
Robert Karlsson  Sweden 69-71-70=210
Matteo Manassero  Italy 67-75-68=210
Charl Schwartzel  South Africa 71-67-72=210
Adam Scott  Australia 68-73-69=210

Final round

Sunday, 20 July 2014

Sergio García applied pressure on the leader Rory McIlroy early, making birdie at three of the first five holes. McIlroy responded with a birdie at the 1st hole, while playing partner Rickie Fowler missed a number of early opportunities for birdie. McIlroy made bogey at both the 5th and the 6th to drop his lead to 3 shots, and came back with a birdie at the 9th. García made an eagle at the 10th, besting McIlroy and Fowler who both made birdie.[31] McIlroy made bogey at 13 to fall to −16 and his lead fell to two shots over García. However, García missed the green at the 15th in a greenside bunker and failed to escape the bunker on his first attempt. He made bogey and dropped into a tie with Fowler at −13.[32] All three players made birdie at 16, and McIlroy missed the green at the 17th. His chip shot rolled to within a foot from the cup, securing par. Fowler and García both made birdie at the 18th. McIlroy made par for a two-shot victory.[33] Jim Furyk finished fourth, as he did in 2006, also at Hoylake.[34]

The low round of the day and the championship was 65 (−7), recorded by four players in placid conditions on Sunday.[35]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney (£)
1 Rory McIlroy  Northern Ireland 66-66-68-71=271 −17 975,000
T2 Rickie Fowler  United States 69-69-68-67=273 −15 460,000
Sergio García  Spain 68-70-69-66=273
4 Jim Furyk  United States 68-71-71-65=275 −13 280,000
T5 Marc Leishman  Australia 69-72-70-65=276 −12 210,500
Adam Scott  Australia 68-73-69-66=276
T7 Edoardo Molinari  Italy 68-73-68-68=277 −11 154,250
Charl Schwartzel  South Africa 71-67-72-67=277
T9 Victor Dubuisson  France 74-66-68-70=278 −10 112,666
Shane Lowry  Ireland 68-75-70-65=278
Graeme McDowell  Northern Ireland 74-69-68-67=278

Source:[36]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par444453443 544343545
Northern Ireland McIlroy −17 −17 −17 −17 −16 −15 −15 −15 −16 −17 −17 −17 −16 −16 −16 −17 −17 −17
United States Fowler −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −13 −14 −14 −15
Spain García −10 −10 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −14 −14 −14 −14 −14 −13 −14 −14 −15

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:[36]

Notes and references

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  2. ↑ "Royal Liverpool to host the 2014 Open Championship". The Open. 19 February 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Hodgetts, Rob (20 July 2014). "Rory McIlroy's Open win puts him on the path to superstardom". BBC Sport.
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  5. ↑ "143rd Open Championship: Venue". European Tour. 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Links". Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. pp. 23, 203. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  8. ↑ "Set par of 68 for British Open". Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. 30 June 1947. p. 9.
  9. ↑ "2014 Open Championship – Exempt players page". The Open. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The Open Championship – Entry Form – 2014". The Open. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  11. ↑ "Tom Lehman pulls out of Hoylake". ESPN. Associated Press. 30 June 2014.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Mark O'Meara withdraws due to elbow". ESPN. Associated Press. 10 July 2014.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Canadian Hearn added to the Open field". SportsNet. Associated Press. 15 July 2014.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Steve Stricker again skips Open". ESPN. 8 July 2014.
  15. ↑ Lavner, Ryan (20 May 2014). "U.S. Am champ Fitzpatrick turning pro after Pinehurst". Golf Channel.
  16. ↑ "The R&A announces global Qualifying Series as new route of entry into The Open". Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  17. ↑ Sunningdale replaced Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club after it received significant damage following winter storms.
  18. ↑ "Venue change announced for Open Championship Final Qualifying 2014". The Open. 28 April 2014.
  19. ↑ "Ten players secure Open Championship places through World Rankings". The Open. 2 July 2014.
  20. ↑ "10 players added to Open field". ESPN. Associated Press. 2 July 2014.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Charles Howell III withdraws". ESPN. Associated Press. 4 July 2014.
  22. ↑ "Open Champions". The Open. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  23. ↑ Murray, Scott (17 July 2014). "The Open 2014 – first round, as it happened". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  24. ↑ "Rory McIlroy leads as Tiger Woods makes solid start". BBC Sport. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  25. ↑ Khan, Mehreen (17 July 2014). "The Open, day one: as it happened". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  26. ↑ Murray, Scott (18 July 2014). "The Open 2014: second round – as it happened". The Guardian.
  27. ↑ "Rory McIlroy repeats 66 to keep lead". ESPN. Associated Press. 18 July 2014.
  28. ↑ Harig, Bob (18 July 2014). "Weather forecast forces two-tee start". ESPN.
  29. ↑ Murray, Scott (19 July 2014). "The Open 2014: third round – as it happened". The Guardian.
  30. ↑ "Rory McIlroy opens 6-shot lead". ESPN. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  31. ↑ Tyers, Alan (20 July 2014). "The Open Championship 2014, day four: as it happened". The Daily Telegraph.
  32. ↑ Hodgetts, Rob (20 July 2014). "Rory McIlroy wins third major title at 2014 Open Championship". BBC Sport.
  33. ↑ Dirs, Ben; Cryer, Andy; Reddy, Luke (20 July 2014). "Final round as it happened". BBC Sport.
  34. ↑ Murray, Ewan (20 July 2014). "Rory McIlroy wins 2014 Open from Sergio García and Rickie Fowler". The Guardian.
  35. ↑ Murray, Scott (20 July 2014). "The Open 2014: fourth round – as it happened". The Guardian.
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 "The Open Championship: Leaderboard". Yahoo! Sports. 20 July 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014.

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