2024 Open Championship

StatisticsPar71Length7,385 yd (6,753 m)Field157 players, 80 after cutCut148 (+6)Prize fund$17,000,000Winner's share$3,100,000Champion Xander Schauffele275 (−9)Location map

The 2024 Open Championship, officially the 152nd Open Championship, was a major golf tournament held 18–21 July 2024 at Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the tenth Open Championship played at the Old Course of Troon. Xander Schauffele shot a final-round 65 to win his second major championship,^[1] two strokes ahead of Justin Rose and 54-hole leader Billy Horschel. With Schauffele's win, Americans won all four majors in the same calendar year for the eleventh time and the first time in 42 years.^[2]

The 2024 Open Championship was organised by the R&A, and was included in the PGA Tour, European Tour, and Japan Golf Tour calendars under the major championships category. The tournament was a 72-hole (4 rounds) stroke play competition held over four days, with 18 holes played each day. Play was in groups of three for the first two days, and groups of two in the final two days. Groupings for the first two days were decided by the organizers, with each group having one morning and one afternoon tee time. On the final two days, players teed 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 progressed through to compete in the third and fourth rounds. In the event of a tie for the lowest score after four rounds, a four-hole aggregate playoff would be held to determine the winner; followed by sudden-death extra holes if necessary.^[3]

The 2024 event was the 11th Open Championship (tenth for men) played at Royal Troon.^[4] The most recent was in 2020, when The R&A only staged the Women's Open Championship (both Open Championships for men were not held in 2020). Sophia Popov scored a major upset in winning her only major by two strokes.^[5] The previous men's Open was in 2016, where Henrik Stenson won the event by three strokes for his only major title.^[6]

The Open Championship field is made up of 157 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.^{[citation needed]}

Most exemption criteria remained unchanged from previous years. The previous Order of Merit exemptions for the Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia, and Sunshine Tour were replaced by a category based on the Official World Golf Ranking's International Federation Ranking List, and a new exemption was added for the winner of the Africa Amateur Championship; it was also announced that winners of the 2024 Open and future editions will remain exempt through age 55, instead of through age 60 as with previous winners.^[7]

Thursday, 18 July 2024

Dan Brown, making his major championship debut after earning a place in the field through final qualifying, claimed the first-round lead following a bogey-free 65. Ranked 272nd in the Official World Golf Ranking, Brown had made only one cut in his last eight tournaments prior to the Open.^[8][9]

Shane Lowry, winner of the 2019 Open Championship, was in second place, and two-time major champion Justin Thomas was in third.^[10][11]

The scoring average was 74.43, more than three strokes over par, and only 17 players broke par on the round as wind and rain created difficult playing conditions.^[12]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Dan Brown	65	−6
2	Shane Lowry	66	−5
3	Justin Thomas	68	−3
T4	Joe Dean	69	−2
	Russell Henley
	Nicolai Højgaard
	Mackenzie Hughes
	Alex Norén
	Justin Rose
	Xander Schauffele

Friday, 19 July 2024

Shane Lowry shot a 2-under 69 to take the lead headed into the weekend. Overnight leader Dan Brown carded a 72 to slide into a tie for second alongside former world number one Justin Rose, who shot 68, the joint-lowest round of the day. Rose was the only player in the early-late tee time groupings to be under par through two rounds, as his side of the draw faced more difficult scoring conditions.^[13][14]

World number one Scottie Scheffler, seeking his seventh win of the season, moved into a share of fourth alongside Dean Burmester and Billy Horschel following a second consecutive 1-under round of 70.^[15]

Joaquín Niemann made a quintuple-bogey 8 at the par-3 8th hole, but bounced back with a 31 on the back nine to post 71 and remain at even par for the championship, seven strokes off the lead.^[16]

The cut came at 148 (six over par). Five of the top ten players in the Official World Golf Ranking failed to make the weekend: Rory McIlroy (no. 2), Ludvig Åberg (no. 4), Wyndham Clark (no. 5), Viktor Hovland (no. 7), and Bryson DeChambeau (no. 9). Among those who also missed the cut were Henrik Stenson, winner of the Open when it was last hosted at Royal Troon in 2016, and three-time Open champion Tiger Woods.^[17][18]

The scoring average was again more than three strokes over par, at 74.36, as wind gusts reached 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) during the round.^[19]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Shane Lowry	66-69=135	−7
T2	Dan Brown	65-72=137	−5
	Justin Rose	69-68=137
T4	Dean Burmester	71-69=140	−2
	Billy Horschel	72-68=140
	Scottie Scheffler	70-70=140
T7	Patrick Cantlay	73-68=141	−1
	Corey Conners	71-70=141
	Jason Day	73-68=141
	Xander Schauffele	69-72=141

Saturday, 20 July 2024

Billy Horschel established a 54-hole lead in a major championship for the first time in his career with a 2-under 69. Horschel and Xander Schauffele, winner of the 2024 PGA Championship, were the only players from the final 12 groupings to shoot under par in the third round, as weather conditions worsened throughout the day. The scoring average for the final 12 groupings was 73.92, compared to 71.46 for the prior 12 groupings.^[20]

Teeing off earlier in the day when the weather was sunny and calm, Thriston Lawrence and Sam Burns shot rounds of 65 to vault into contention. Russell Henley also moved into a six-way tie for second following a 66.^[21]

36-hole leader Shane Lowry carded a 6-over 77 to fall into ninth place, while Dan Brown double bogeyed his final hole to post 73. Scottie Scheffler shot even-par 71 to remain in contention. In an interview after his round, Scheffler described the back nine, with its cold, rainy, and windy conditions, as "probably the hardest nine holes that I'll ever play."^[22]

As one of the early players on the course, Kim Si-woo made a hole-in-one at the par-3 17th hole. This was the first ace made in championship history at that hole, and at 238 yards (218 m) it became the longest hole-in-one in the recorded history of the Open championship.^[20]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Billy Horschel	72-68-69=209	−4
T2	Dan Brown	65-72-73=210	−3
	Sam Burns	76-69-65=210
	Russell Henley	69-75-66=210
	Thriston Lawrence	71-74-65=210
	Justin Rose	69-68-73=210
	Xander Schauffele	69-72-69=210
8	Scottie Scheffler	70-70-71=211	−2
9	Shane Lowry	66-69-77=212	−1
T10	Matthew Jordan	71-71-71=213	E
	Adam Scott	70-77-66=213
	Justin Thomas	68-78-67=213

Sunday, 21 July 2024

Xander Schauffele shot the lowest round of the day, a bogey-free 65, to post a winning score of 9-under 275 and win the Claret Jug. This was his second major championship of the year, making him the first since Brooks Koepka in 2018 to win two majors in a calendar year.^[23][2]

Playing alongside Schauffele, Justin Rose shot 67 to finish as runner-up at 7-under. 54-hole leader Billy Horschel birdied the final three holes to tie Rose in second place.^[24] Thriston Lawrence made four birdies and no bogeys on the front nine to hold the solo lead at 7-under, before faltering with a 1-over 36 on the back nine to finish fourth.^[25] World number one and pre-tournament favourite Scottie Scheffler was at 4-under for the tournament after eight holes, but four-putted for double bogey on the 9th hole, fell out of contention, and finished eight strokes back.^[26]

Of the twelve amateurs, four made the cut.^[27] Calum Scott, from Nairn in the Highlands of Scotland, won the Silver Medal as low amateur with a score of 8-over 292.^[28]

Champion

Silver Medal winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Xander Schauffele	69-72-69-65=275	−9	3,100,000
T2	Billy Horschel	72-68-69-68=277	−7	1,443,500
	Justin Rose	69-68-73-67=277
4	Thriston Lawrence	71-74-65-68=278	−6	876,000
5	Russell Henley	69-75-66-69=279	−5	705,000
6	Shane Lowry (c)	66-69-77-68=280	−4	611,000
T7	Im Sung-jae	76-72-66-69=283	−1	451,833
	Jon Rahm	73-70-72-68=283
	Scottie Scheffler	70-70-71-72=283
T10	Dan Brown	65-72-73-74=284	E	317,533
	Matthew Jordan	71-71-71-71=284
	Adam Scott	70-77-66-71=284

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T13	An Byeong-hun	75-71-68-71=285	+1	248,667
	Jason Day	73-68-76-68=285
	Alex Norén	69-75-71-70=285
T16	John Catlin	76-70-69-71=286	+2	202,700
	Mackenzie Hughes	69-74-75-68=286
	Collin Morikawa (c)	73-70-72-71=286
T19	Dean Burmester	71-69-76-71=287	+3	176,367
	Daniel Hillier	76-71-68-72=287
	Shubhankar Sharma	76-72-67-72=287
T22	Ewen Ferguson	74-73-70-71=288	+4	151,067
	Pádraig Harrington (c)	72-73-71-72=288
	Sepp Straka	70-74-73-71=288
T25	Laurie Canter	71-74-70-74=289	+5	124,583
	Patrick Cantlay	73-68-75-73=289
	Corey Conners	71-70-80-68=289
	Joe Dean	69-77-71-72=289
	Ryan Fox	73-73-76-67=289
	Jordan Spieth (c)	71-74-74-70=289
T31	Sam Burns	76-69-65-80=290	+6	90,220
	Eric Cole	72-73-72-73=290
	Dustin Johnson	74-69-72-75=290
	Kim Min-kyu	73-71-72-74=290
	Chris Kirk	70-76-69-75=290
	Matteo Manassero	73-73-70-74=290
	Guido Migliozzi	73-75-71-71=290
	Justin Thomas	68-78-67-77=290
	Brendon Todd	73-73-70-74=290
	Cameron Young	73-73-71-73=290
T41	Kurt Kitayama	77-69-74-71=291	+7	70,050
	Matt Wallace	70-77-71-73=291
T43	Jorge Campillo	80-68-73-71=292	+8	57,200
	Emiliano Grillo	71-74-72-75=292
	Max Homa	76-72-70-74=292
	Kim Si-woo	76-71-71-74=292
	Brooks Koepka	70-73-78-71=292
	Thorbjørn Olesen	72-73-76-71=292
	Calum Scott (a)	71-75-70-76=292		0
T50	Sean Crocker	72-74-69-78=293	+9	45,238
	Harris English	76-71-72-74=293
	Matt Fitzpatrick	70-78-73-72=293
	Robert MacIntyre	72-75-72-74=293
	Richard Mansell	75-71-74-73=293
	Adrian Meronk	73-72-73-75=293
	Matthieu Pavon	72-72-77-72=293
	Gary Woodland	76-68-72-77=293
T58	Abraham Ancer	73-75-70-76=294	+10	42,150
	Joaquín Niemann	71-71-76-76=294
T60	Brian Harman (c)	73-73-72-77=295	+11	41,325
	Rasmus Højgaard	74-72-74-75=295
	Phil Mickelson (c)	73-74-72-76=295
	Tommy Morrison (a)	75-73-74-73=295		0
	Jacob Skov Olesen (a)	76-71-72-76=295
	Wang Jeung-hun	72-72-77-74=295		41,325
T66	Austin Eckroat	73-73-72-78=296	+12	40,280
	Nicolai Højgaard	69-75-75-77=296
	Hideki Matsuyama	75-72-75-74=296
	Tom McKibbin	73-72-77-74=296
	Davis Thompson	74-73-71-78=296
71	Rickie Fowler	79-69-74-75=297	+13	39,700
T72	Tom Hoge	74-70-74-80=298	+14	39,233
	Marcel Siem	73-71-77-77=298
	Song Young-han	71-76-77-74=298
T75	Alex Čejka	73-74-72-80=299	+15	38,525
	Darren Clarke (c)	77-71-76-75=299
	Aaron Rai	73-74-75-77=299
78	Luis Masaveu (a)	73-75-78-76=302	+18	0
79	Andy Ogletree	75-72-79-77=303	+19	38,400
80	Darren Fichardt	77-71-80-78=306	+22	38,275
CUT	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	75-74=149	+7
	Akshay Bhatia	76-73=149
	Keegan Bradley	74-75=149
	Nacho Elvira	76-73=149
	Yuto Katsuragawa	76-73=149
	Kazuma Kobori	73-76=149
	Jack McDonald	76-73=149
	Vincent Norrman	78-71=149
	Victor Perez	74-75=149
	Sami Välimäki	73-76=149
	Will Zalatoris	76-73=149
	Tyrrell Hatton	73-77=150	+8
	Sam Horsfield	75-75=150
	Masahiro Kawamura	72-78=150
	Charlie Lindh	75-75=150
	Louis Oosthuizen (c)	78-72=150
	J. T. Poston	78-72=150
	Henrik Stenson (c)	77-73=150
	Nick Taylor	75-75=150
	Ludvig Åberg	75-76=151	+9
	Bryson DeChambeau	76-75=151
	Tommy Fleetwood	76-75=151
	Ryo Hisatsune	76-75=151
	Zach Johnson (c)	76-75=151
	Min Woo Lee	71-80=151
	Joost Luiten	75-76=151
	Denny McCarthy	73-78=151
	Francesco Molinari (c)	73-78=151
	Pan Cheng-tsung	79-72=151
	Adam Schenk	74-77=151
	Jordan Smith	76-75=151
	Elvis Smylie	76-75=151
	Matthew Southgate	73-78=151
	Matthew Dodd-Berry (a)	72-80=152	+10
	Tony Finau	71-81=152
	Adam Hadwin	75-77=152
	Michael Hendry	74-78=152
	Rikuya Hoshino	79-73=152
	Viktor Hovland	75-77=152
	Ryosuke Kinoshita	75-77=152
	Maverick McNealy	71-81=152
	Taylor Moore	78-74=152
	Yannik Paul	77-75=152
	Jasper Stubbs (a)	80-72=152
	Stewart Cink (c)	76-77=153	+11
	Ben Griffin	79-74=153
	Ángel Hidalgo	77-76=153
	Stephan Jäger	74-79=153
	Tom Kim	76-77=153
	Rory McIlroy (c)	78-75=153
	Jesper Svensson	72-81=153
	Altin van der Merwe (a)	79-74=153
	Alexander Björk	73-81=154	+12
	Sam Hutsby	74-80=154
	Cameron Smith (c)	80-74=154
	Dominic Clemons (a)	77-78=155	+13
	Lucas Glover	77-78=155
	Jaime Montojo (a)	74-81=155
	Liam Nolan (a)	78-77=155
	David Puig	80-75=155
	Gordon Sargent (a)	80-75=155
	Ryan van Velzen	79-76=155
	Mason Andersen	76-80=156	+14
	Santiago de la Fuente (a)	78-78=156
Sahith Theegala	77-79=156
Tiger Woods (c)	79-77=156
Denwit Boriboonsub	78-80=158	+16
Wyndham Clark	78-80=158
Justin Leonard (c)	80-78=158
Keita Nakajima	80-79=159	+17
Dan Bradbury	83-77=160	+18
Koh Gun-taek	81-79=160
Todd Hamilton (c)	82-80=162	+20
Aguri Iwasaki	74-91=165	+23
WD	John Daly (c)	82
	Ernie Els (c)	82
	Romain Langasque

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	5	3	5	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	3	4
Schauffele	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9
Horschel	−5	−5	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−6	−7
Rose	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7
Lawrence	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6
Henley	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5
Lowry	−1	−1	E	−1	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4
Scheffler	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−2	−3	−4	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−1
Brown	−2	−3	−3	−2	−1	E	−1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	−1	E
Burns	−3	−3	−2	−1	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−1	+1	+4	+4	+4	+5	+5	+6	+6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

Source:^[29]

• Official website