2025 Open Championship field

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This page lists the criteria used to determine the field for the 2025 Open Championship and the players who qualified.

The Open Championship field is made up of 156 players, who gained entry through various exemption criteria and qualifying tournaments. The criteria include past Open champions, recent major winners, top ranked players in the world rankings and from the leading world tours, and winners and high finishers from various designated tournaments, including the Open Qualifying Series; the winners of designated amateur events, including The Amateur Championship and U.S. Amateur, also gained exemption provided they remain an amateur. Anyone not qualifying via exemption, and had a handicap of 0.4 or lower, can gain entry through regional and final qualifying events.

Criteria and exemptions

Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.[1][a]

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 20 July 2025 (for all champions before 2024)

2. The Open Champions aged 55 or under on 20 July 2025 (for all champions from 2024)

3. The Open Champions for 2014–2024[b]

4. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2024 Open Championship

5. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2025

6. Top 25 in the final 2024 Race to Dubai rankings

7. Recent winners of the BMW PGA Championship (2022–2024)

8. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2025 Race to Dubai Rankings through the BMW International Open

9. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2020–2025)

10. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2019–2025)

11. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2020–2025)

12. Top 30 players from the 2024 FedEx Cup points list

13. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2023–2025)

14. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2025 FedEx Cup points list through the Rocket Classic[d]

15. Top player, not already exempt, in the top 5 of the 2025 LIV Golf League individual standings through LIV Golf Dallas

16. Winner of the 2024 Olympic gold medal

17. Winner of the 2025 Visa Open de Argentina

18. Top five players from the OWGR's International Federation Ranking List as of closing date

19. Winner of the 2024 Japan Open Golf Championship

20. Winner of the 2024 Senior Open Championship

21. Winner of the 2024 U.S. Amateur[e]

22. Recipient of the 2024 Mark H. McCormack Medal[e]

23. Winner of the 2024 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship[e]

24. Winner of the 2025 Latin America Amateur Championship[e]

25. Winner of the 2025 Africa Amateur Championship[e]

  • Bryan Newman (a)

26. Winner of the 2025 Amateur Championship[e]

  • Ethan Fang (a)

27. Winner of the 2025 European Amateur[e]

28. Winner of the 2025 Open Amateur Series[e][g]

Open Qualifying Series

The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) for the 2025 Open Championship consisted of 11 events. Places are available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who make the cut. In the event of ties, positions go to players ranked highest according to that week's OWGR. Unlike previous years, places won by players who later became exempt did not go to the next highest non-exempt player in that qualifying event.[5]

More information Location, Tournament ...
LocationTournamentDateSpotsQualifiers
AustraliaISPS Handa Australian Open1 December 20243Ryggs Johnston, Marc Leishman, Curtis Luck
New ZealandNew Zealand Open2 March 20251Ryan Peake
South AfricaInvestec South African Open Championship2 March 20253Darren Fichardt, Dylan Naidoo, Marco Penge
United StatesArnold Palmer Invitational9 March 20251Corey Conners (5)
MacauInternational Series Macau23 March 20253Jason Kokrak, Carlos Ortiz, Patrick Reed (18)
KoreaKolon Korea Open25 May 20251Sadom Kaewkanjana
JapanGateway to The Open Mizuno Open1 June 20253Mikiya Akutsu, Riki Kawamoto, Song Young-han
United StatesMemorial Tournament1 June 20251Rickie Fowler
CanadaRBC Canadian Open8 June 20253Matt McCarty, Cameron Young, Kevin Yu
ItalyItalian Open29 June 20252Martin Couvra, Adrien Saddier
ScotlandGenesis Scottish Open13 July 20253Chris Gotterup, Nicolai Højgaard, Matti Schmid
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Final qualifying

Regional qualifying events were held on 23 June at 15 locations.[6] Final qualifying events were played on 1 July at four locations.[7]

More information Location, Spots ...
LocationSpotsQualifiers[a][h]
Burnham & Berrow5O. J. Farrell (R), Harry Hall, Frazer Jones (a,R), Jacob Skov Olesen, Justin Walters
Dundonald Links5Connor Graham (a), Ángel Hidalgo, Jesper Sandborg, Lee Westwood, Daniel Young
Royal Cinque Ports5John Axelsen, Dean Burmester, Seb Cave (a), Nathan Kimsey, Curtis Knipes
West Lancashire5George Bloor, Lucas Herbert, Oliver Lindell, Richard Teder (a), Sampson Zheng
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Additional players added to the field

In order to fill additional places or replace exempt players who had withdrawn prior to the start of the Championship, and maintain the full field of 156, additional players were taken in ranking order from the Week 27 (6 July) Official World Golf Ranking.[8]

Notes

  1. [a]
    (a) – denotes amateur.
  2. [b]
    All will be aged 55 or under on 20 July 2025.
  3. [c]
    Corey Conners and Patrick Reed qualified via the Open Qualifying Series before becoming exempt.
  4. [d]
    All players in the top 20 were already exempt.
  5. [e]
    Players must remain amateurs in order to be exempt under this category.
  6. [f]
    Forfeited his exemption by turning professional.
  7. [g]
    Cumulative World Amateur Golf Ranking points from the St Andrews Links Trophy, The Amateur Championship, and the European Amateur.
  8. [h]
    (R) – denotes a player who progressed through regional qualifying.
  9. [i]
    Kim Si-woo replaced Ernie Els.[2]
  10. [j]
    Davis Riley replaced Paul Waring.[4]

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