2017 Open Championship

2017 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates	20–23 July 2017
Location	Southport, England
Course(s)	Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Organized by	The R&A
Tour(s)	European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	70
Length	7,173 yards (6,559 m)
Field	156 players
«2016 2018»

Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Location in England

Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, Merseyside,
north of Liverpool, England

The 2017 Open Championship will be the 146th Open Championship, held 20–23 July 2017 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England.
It will be the 10th Open Championship played at Royal Birkdale.

Media

The 2017 Open Championship will be the second to be televised domestically by Sky Sports. In the United States, it will be the second Open Championship to be televised by NBC (Golf Channel's parent network).

Venue

Main article: Royal Birkdale Golf Club

The 2017 event will be the tenth Open Championship played at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club. The most recent was in 2008, where Pádraig Harrington successfully defended his 2007 Open Championship title from Carnoustie.

**The 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club**
Tee	Rating/Slope	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yardage	n/a	450	421	451	201	346	499	178	457	414	3417	408	436	184	499	201	544	439	572	473	3756	7,173
Par		4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	34	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	5	4	36	70

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):^[1]

2008: 7,173 yards (6,559 m), par 70
1998: 7,018 yards (6,417 m), par 70
1991: 6,940 yards (6,350 m), par 70
1983: 6,968 yards (6,372 m), par 71
1976: 7,001 yards (6,402 m), par 72

1971: 7,080 yards (6,470 m), par 73
1965: 7,037 yards (6,435 m), par 73
1961: 6,844 yards (6,258 m), par 72 ^[2]
1954: 6,867 yards (6,279 m), par 73 ^[3]

Field

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

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 23 July 2017

Mark Calcavecchia, Stewart Cink (2), Darren Clarke (2), Ben Curtis, John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2), Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington (2), Zach Johnson (2,14), Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard, Sandy Lyle, Rory McIlroy (2,3,5,6,10,12,14), Phil Mickelson (2,3,12,14), Mark O'Meara, Louis Oosthuizen (2,5), Henrik Stenson (2,3,5,14), Tiger Woods

Eligible but not expected to enter: Nick Faldo, Ian Baker-Finch, Nick Price

2. The Open Champions for 2007–2016

3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2016 Open Championship

Sergio García (5,14), Bill Haas, Tyrrell Hatton (5), J. B. Holmes (12,14), Dustin Johnson (8,12,14), Andrew Johnston (5), Søren Kjeldsen (5), Steve Stricker

4. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2017

5. Top 30 on the 2016 Race to Dubai for 2016

Richard Bland, Rafael Cabrera-Bello (14), Ross Fisher, Matthew Fitzpatrick (14), Branden Grace, Scott Hend, David Horsey, Thongchai Jaidee, Martin Kaymer (8,14), Li Haotong, Shane Lowry, Joost Luiten, Francesco Molinari, Alexander Norén, Thorbjørn Olesen, Thomas Pieters (14), Charl Schwartzel (12), Andy Sullivan (14), Wang Jeung-hun, Lee Westwood (14), Bernd Wiesberger, Danny Willett (9,14), Chris Wood (6,14)

6. Last three BMW PGA Championship winners

An Byeong-hun

7. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2017 Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open

8. Last five U.S. Open winners

Justin Rose (14,27), Jordan Spieth (9,12,14), 18 June 2017

9. Last five Masters Tournament winners

Adam Scott (12), Bubba Watson (12), 9 April 2017

10. Last five PGA Championship winners

Jason Day (11,12), Jason Dufner (12), Jimmy Walker (12,14)

11. Last three Players Championship winners

Rickie Fowler (14), 14 May 2017

12. The 30 qualifiers for the 2016 Tour Championship

Daniel Berger, Paul Casey, Roberto Castro, Kevin Chappell, Emiliano Grillo, Kim Si-woo, Kevin Kisner, Russell Knox, Matt Kuchar (14), Hideki Matsuyama (19), William McGirt, Ryan Moore (14), Kevin Na, Sean O'Hair, Patrick Reed (14), Brandt Snedeker (14), Justin Thomas, Jhonattan Vegas, Gary Woodland

13. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2017 FedEx Cup points list through the Travelers Championship

25 June

14. Playing members of the 2016 Ryder Cup teams

Brooks Koepka

15. Winner of the 2016 Asian Tour Order of Merit

11 December

16. Winner of the 2016 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Matthew Griffin

17. Winner of the 2016 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

5 March 2017

18. Winner of the 2016 Open de Argentina

Kent Bulle

19. Winner of the 2016 Japan Open

20. Top 2 on the 2016 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List

Yuta Ikeda, Hideto Tanihara

21. Top 2, not already exempt, on the 2017 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List through the Japan Golf Tour Championship

22. Winner of the 2016 Senior Open Championship

Paul Broadhurst

23. Winner of the 2017 Amateur Championship

24. Winner of the 2016 U.S. Amateur

Curtis Luck (a)

25. Winner of the 2016 European Amateur

Luca Cianchetti (a)

26. Recipient of the 2016 Mark H. McCormack Medal

Maverick McNealy (a)

27. Winner of the 2016 Olympic Golf Tournament

Open Qualifying Series

The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) consists of 11 events from the six major tours. 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 ranked highest according to that week's OWGR.

Location	Tournament	Date	Spots	Top	Qualifiers
Australia	Emirates Australian Open	20 Nov	3	10	Aaron Baddeley, Ashley Hall, Cameron Smith
Singapore	SMBC Singapore Open	22 Jan	2	10
South Africa	Joburg Open	26 Feb	3	10
Vietnam	Ho Tram Players Championship	16 Apr	2	10
Japan	Mizuno Open	28 May	4	12
France	Alstom Open de France		3	10
United States	Quicken Loans National	2 Jul	4	12
Ireland	Dubai Duty Free Irish Open	9 Jul	3	10
United States	Greenbrier Classic	9 Jul	4	12
Scotland	Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open	16 Jul	3	10
United States	John Deere Classic	16 Jul	1	5

Final Qualifying

The Final Qualifying events will be played on 4 July at four courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England. Three qualifying places are available at each location.

Gailes Links –

Hillside –

Royal Cinque Ports –

Woburn –

Alternates

To make up the full field of 156, additional places are allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking at the time that these places are made available by the Championship Committee.

Past champions expected in the field

Player	Country	Year(s) won
Henrik Stenson	Sweden	2016
Zach Johnson	United States	2015
Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	2014
Phil Mickelson	United States	2013
Ernie Els	South Africa	2002, 2012
Darren Clarke	Northern Ireland	2011
Louis Oosthuizen	South Africa	2010
Stewart Cink	United States	2009
Pádraig Harrington	Ireland	2007, 2008
Tiger Woods	United States	2000, 2005, 2006
Todd Hamilton	United States	2004
Ben Curtis	United States	2003
David Duval	United States	2001
Paul Lawrie	Scotland	1999
Mark O'Meara	United States	1998
Justin Leonard	United States	1997
Tom Lehman	United States	1996
John Daly	United States	1995
Mark Calcavecchia	United States	1989
Sandy Lyle	Scotland	1985

References

↑ "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. pp. 21, 203. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
↑ "Palmer takes British crown". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon, U.S.). Associated Press. 16 July 1961. p. 1B.
↑ "Peter Thomson wins British Open with 283". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. 10 July 1954. p. 11.

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Majors and special events	Senior PGA Championship (2007-present) Women's PGA Championship (2015-present) Evian Championship (2014-present) Women's British Open (2016-future) Senior Open Championship (2016-future)

Former events	Bob Hope Classic (mid 1960s–1998) Northern Trust Open (2010) BellSouth Classic (1999–2006) Zurich Classic of New Orleans (2007–2008) The Tradition (2007–2010) Senior Players Championship (2007–2009) U.S. Women's Open (1995–2014) U.S. Senior Open (1995–2014) Skins Game (1983–1990)

Key figures

Dan Hicks (Host) Johnny Miller (Analyst) Gary Koch (Tower Announcer) Peter Jacobsen (Tower Announcer) Roger Maltbie (On-Course Reporter) Mark Rolfing (On-Course Reporter) Notah Begay III (On-Course Reporter) Jimmy Roberts (Host/Essayist)

Music composers	Bruce Rowland (The Man from Snowy River "Main Title") Yanni ("In Celebration of Man")

Coordinates: 53°37′19″N 3°01′59″W / 53.622°N 3.033°W / 53.622; -3.033

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