The Royal & Ancient announced this Monday the names of six more golfers who have qualified for the Open Championship. The tournament, with the exception of the three spots offered by the Scottish Open, is now closed, barring any last-minute withdrawals.
Where do these six come from? Once all the established qualification criteria have been completed, except for the Scottish Open, if there are still spots to fill, they are completed in strict order of world ranking. In other words, the best players in the world as of this Monday who were not already exempt. A total of 156 players will compete in the Open, and there were 147 qualified. This is why there have been six. It reaches the figure of 153, and only the three from Scotland remain.
As it stands, the last to board the Open train are Aldrich Potgieter, Nicolás Echavarría, Brian Campbell (thanks to his victory this Sunday at the John Deere, he made the necessary leap in the world ranking), Michael Kim, Bud Cauley, and Davis Thompson. The latter failed on Sunday in his attempt to win the John Deere for the second consecutive time, but at least he secured a spot in the Open.
If for any reason the three remaining spots in the Scottish Open are not filled (they are awarded to the top three in the standings who are not already exempt, but with the condition that they have made the cut), the world ranking would be used again to reach 156. Currently, the first two reserves are Si Woo Kim and David Riley.
As it stands, the complete list of qualified players for the Open Championship, pending those last three, is as follows:
Ludvig Aberg
Cameron Adam
Mikiya Akutsu
Byeong Hun An
John Axelsen
Daniel Berger
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Akshay Bhatia
George Bloor
Keegan Bradley
Daniel Brown
Dean Burmester
Sam Burns
Brian Campbell
Laurie Canter
Patrick Cantlay
John Catlin
Bud Cauley
Sebastian Cave
K.J. Choi
Stewart Cink
Wyndham Clark
Darren Clarke
Corey Conners
Martin Couvra
Jason Day
Bryson DeChambeau
Thomas Detry
Nicolas Echavarria
Ernie Els
Harris English
Ethan Fang
O.J. Farrell
Darren Fichardt
Tony Finau
Matt Fitzpatrick
Tommy Fleetwood
Rickie Fowler
Ryan Fox
Sergio Garcia
Lucas Glover
Connor Graham
Max Greyserman
Ben Griffin
Julien Guerrier
Harry Hall
Brian Harman
Padraig Harrington
Justin Hastings
Tyrrell Hatton
Russell Henley
Lucas Herbert
Angel Hidalgo
Daniel Hillier
Tom Hoge
Rasmus Hojgaard
Rikuya Hoshino
Viktor Hovland
Mackenzie Hughes
Sungjae Im
Shugo Imahira
Stephan Jaeger
Felip Jakubcik
Dustin Johnson
Zach Johnson
Ryggs Johnston
Frazer Jones
Matthew Jordan
Sadom Kaewkanjana
Takumi Kanaya
Riki Kawamoto
Tom Kim
Michael Kim
Nathan Kimsey
Chris Kirk
Chris Knipes
Brooks Koepka
Jason Kokrak
Romain Langasque
Thriston Lawrence
Min Woo Lee
Marc Leishman
Justin Leonard
Haotong Li
Oliver Lindell
Shane Lowry
Curtis Luck
Robert MacIntyre
Matteo Manassero
Hideki Matsuyama
Denny McCarthy
Matt McCarty
Rory McIlroy
Tom McKibbin
Maverick McNealy
Phil Mickelson
Guido Migliozzi
Francesco Molinari
Collin Morikawa
Dylan Naidoo
Bryan Newman
Joaquin Niemann
Niklas Norgaard
Shaun Norris
Andrew Novak
Thorbjorn Olesen
Jacob Skov Olesen
Louis Oosthuizen
Carlos Ortiz
Matthieu Pavon
Ryan Peake
Taylor Pendrith
Marco Penge
John Perry
J.T. Poston
Aldrich Potgieter
Jon Rahm
Aaron Rai
Patrick Reed
Kristoffer Reitan
Justin Rose
Antoine Rozner
Adrian Saddier
Jacob Sandborg
Xander Schauffele
Scottie Scheffler
Adam Scott
Cameron Smith
Jordan Smith
Elvis Smylie
Sebastian Soderberg
Younghan Song
J.J. Spaun
Jordan Spieth
Henrik Stenson
Sepp Straka
Justin Suh
Jesper Svensson
Nick Taylor
Sahith Theegala
Justin Thomas
Davis Thompson
Richard Tider
Daniel Van Tonder
Jhonattan Vegas
Matt Wallace
Justin Walters
Paul Waring
Lee Westwood
Cameron Young
Daniel Young
Kevin Yu
Sampson Zheng
It should be remembered that Ben Curtis, John Daly, Todd Hamilton, Paul Lawrie, and Tiger Woods could also have played the tournament as former champions, but they have declined to do so.
