2022 Open Championship

The 2022 Open Championship, officially the 150th Open Championship, is a golf tournament to be played 14–17 July on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland.

150th Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates14–17 July 2022
LocationSt Andrews, Scotland
56.343°N 2.803°W / 56.343; -2.803
Course(s)Old Course
Organized byThe R&A
Tour(s)
Statistics
Field156 players
Location Map
St Andrews
Location in the United Kingdom
St Andrews
Location in Scotland
St Andrews
Location in Fife

Organisation

The Open Championship is organised by the R&A, and is included in the PGA Tour, European Tour, and Japan Golf Tour calendars under the major championships category. The tournament is a 72-hole (4 rounds) stroke play competition held over 4 days, with 18 holes played each day. Play is in groups of three for the first two days, and groups of two in the final two days. Groupings for the first two days are decided by the organisers, with each group having one morning, and one afternoon tee time. On the final two days, players tee off in reverse order of aggregate score, with the leaders last. After 36 holes there was a cut, after which the top 70 and ties progress through to compete in the third and fourth rounds. In the event of a tie for the lowest score after four rounds, a three-hole aggregate playoff will be held to determine the winner; this will be followed by sudden-death extra holes if necessary until a winner emerges.

Venue
Main article: Old Course at St Andrews

The 2022 event will be the 30th Open Championship played at the Old Course at St Andrews.[1] The most recent was in 2015, when Zach Johnson won the four-hole playoff for his second major title.

HoleNameYardsParHoleNameYardsPar
1Burn375410Bobby Jones3864
2Dyke452411High (In)1743
3Cartgate (Out)398412Heathery (In)3484
4Ginger Beer480413Hole O'Cross (In)4654
5Hole O'Cross (Out)570514Long6145
6Heathery (Out)414415Cartgate (In)4554
7High (Out)371416Corner of the Dyke4184
8Short174317Road4954
9End352418Tom Morris3564
Out3,58636In3,71136
Source:[2]Total7,29772

Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):[3]

Field

The Open Championship field is made up of 156 players, who gained entry through various exemption criteria and qualifying tournaments. The criteria included 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.[4][5]

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 17 July 2022

2. The Open Champions for 2011–2021.

3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2021 Open Championship.

4. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2022.

  • 23 May

5. Top 30 in the final 2021 Race to Dubai standings.

6. Recent winners of the BMW PGA Championship (2018–2021).

7. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2022 Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open.

  • 26 June

8. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2017–2022).

9. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2017–2022).

10. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2016–2022).

11. Recent winners of the Players Championship (2019–2022).

12. The top 30 players from the 2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs

13. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2021–22 FedEx Cup points list through the Travelers Championship.

  • 26 June

14. Winner of the 2021 Open de Argentina.

15. Playing members of the 2021 Ryder Cup teams.

16. Winner of the 2021–22 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit.

  • 8 May

17. Winner of the 2021–22 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit.

  • 1 May

18. Winner of the 2021 Japan Open.

19. Winners of the 2022 Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup Golf.

  • 15 May

20. Top two players on the 2021 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List.

21. The top player, not already exempt, on the 2022 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List through the Japan Golf Tour Championship.

  • 5 June

22. Winner of the 2021 Senior Open Championship.

23. Winners of the 2022 Amateur Championship.

  • 18 June

24. Winners of the 2021 U.S. Amateur.

25. Winners of the 2022 European Amateur.

  • 25 June

26. Recipient of the 2021 Mark H. McCormack Medal.

  • Keita Nakajima (a) (27)

27. Winner of the 2021 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.

28. Winner of the 2022 Latin America Amateur Championship.

  • Aaron Jarvis (a)

Open Qualifying Series

The Open Qualifying Series for the 2022 Open Championship consists of 12 events. Places are available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finished in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions went to players ranked highest according to that week's OWGR.[7]

LocationTournamentDateSpotsTopQualifiers
South AfricaJoburg Open28 Nov 2021310Ashley Chesters, Thriston Lawrence, Zander Lombard
SingaporeSMBC Singapore Open23 Jan 2022412Sadom Kaewkanjana, Yuto Katsuragawa, Kim Joo-hyung, Sihwan Kim
AustraliaVic Open13 Feb 2022310Ben Campbell, Matthew Griffin, Dimitrios Papadatos
United StatesArnold Palmer Invitational6 Mar 2022310Talor Gooch, Chris Kirk[lower-alpha 2]
JapanGateway to The Open Mizuno Open29 May 2022412
NetherlandsDutch Open29 May 2022310
CanadaRBC Canadian Open12 Jun 202228
KoreaKolon Korea Open26 Jun 202228
IrelandHorizon Irish Open3 Jul 2022310
United StatesJohn Deere Classic3 Jul 2022310
ScotlandGenesis Scottish Open10 Jul 2022310
United StatesBarbasol Championship10 Jul 202215

Final Qualifying

Final Qualifying events will be played on 28 June at four locations. Three qualifying places are available at each location, with 72 golfers competing at each.[8]

LocationQualifiers
Fairmont St Andrews
Prince's
Hollinwell
St Anne's Old Links

Notes
  1. Calcavecchia will be 62-years-old, but has been given an exemption into the event following cancellation of the 2020 event and injury in 2021.[6]
  2. Only two players in the top ten were not already qualified.

References
  1. "St. Andrews set to break attendance record for British Open". Associated Press. St. Andrews, Scotland. 26 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  2. "St Andrews – The Old Course". Archived from the original on 21 September 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  3. "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. pp. 19, 203. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  4. "The 150th Open - Exemptions". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  5. "The 150th Open - Entry terms and conditions" (PDF). The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  6. Hall, Mike (20 April 2022). "Mark Calcavecchia Set For Incredible PGA Tour Milestone". Golf Monthly. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  7. "The Open Qualifying Series / All You Need To Know". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  8. "Final Qualifying". The Open Championship. The R&A. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
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