Draft:2024 Open Championship Field

This page lists the criteria used to determine the field for the 2024 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 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.

Sunshine tour and Australasia tour Order merit winners were removed from exemptions. Replaced by 5 players from a ranking of players from Asian Tour, the Japan Golf Tour, the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Sunshine Tours. An added exemption for the Africa amateur champion. From 2024 onward, champions will be exempt to age 55.

Criteria and exemptions
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 21 July 2024


 * Stewart Cink
 * Darren Clarke
 * Ben Curtis
 * John Daly
 * David Duval
 * Ernie Els
 * Todd Hamilton
 * Brian Harman (3, 4, 5, 13)
 * Pádraig Harrington
 * Zach Johnson (3)
 * Paul Lawrie
 * Justin Leonard
 * Shane Lowry (3,5,7)
 * Rory McIlroy (3,4,5,6,13)
 * Phil Mickelson (3,11)
 * Francesco Molinari (3)
 * Collin Morikawa (3,5,11,13)
 * Louis Oosthuizen
 * Cameron Smith (3,12)
 * Jordan Spieth (3,5,13)
 * Henrik Stenson (3)
 * Tiger Woods (10)

2. The Open Champions aged 55 or under on 21 July 2024 (for all Champions from 2024)

3. The Open Champions for 2013–2023

4. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2023 Open Championship


 * Jason Day (5,13)
 * Tommy Fleetwood (5,6,13)
 * Emiliano Grillo (13)
 * Max Homa (5.13)
 * Matthew Jordan
 * Tom Kim (5,6,13)
 * Jon Rahm (5, 6, 9, 10)
 * Shubhankar Sharma
 * Sepp Straka (12)
 * Cameron Young (5)

5. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2024


 * Ludvig Åberg
 * An Byeong-hun
 * Akshay Bhatia
 * Keegan Bradley (13)
 * Sam Burns (13)
 * Patrick Cantlay (13)
 * Wyndham Clark (9,13)
 * Eric Cole
 * Corey Conners (13)
 * Bryson DeChambeau (9)
 * Austin Eckroat
 * Harris English
 * Tony Finau (13)
 * Matt Fitzpatrick (8)
 * Rickie Fowler (13)
 * Lucas Glover (13)
 * Tyrrell Hatton (6,13)
 * Russell Henley (13)
 * Nicolai Højgaard (6)
 * Viktor Hovland (6,13)
 * Im Sung-jae (13)
 * Stephan Jäger
 * Kim Si-woo (13)
 * Chris Kirk
 * Kurt Kitayama
 * Brooks Koepka (11)
 * Min Woo Lee (6)
 * Robert MacIntyre
 * Hideki Matsuyama (10)
 * Denny McCarthy
 * Matthieu Pavon (6)
 * J. T. Poston
 * Jon Rahm (5,8,9,12)
 * Xander Schauffele (11,13)
 * Scottie Scheffler (10,12,13)
 * Adam Schenk (13)
 * Nick Taylor(13)
 * Sahith Theegala (12)
 * Justin Thomas (11)
 * Will Zalatoris

6. Top 30 in the final 2023 Race to Dubai Rankings


 * Alexander Björk
 * Jorge Campillo
 * Ryan Fox (7)
 * Daniel Hillier
 * Ryo Hisatsune
 * Rasmus Højgaard
 * Romain Langasque
 * Thriston Lawrence
 * Joost Luiten
 * Adrian Meronk
 * Vincent Norrman
 * Thorbjørn Olesen
 * Yannik Paul
 * Victor Perez
 * Marcel Siem
 * Jordan Smith
 * Sebastian Söderberg
 * Sami Välimäki
 * Matt Wallace

7. Recent winners of the BMW PGA Championship (2021–2023)
 * Billy Horschel

8. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2024 Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open

9. Recent winners of the U.S. Open (2019–2024)
 * Gary Woodland

10. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament (2019–2024)
 * Dustin Johnson

11. Recent winners of the PGA Championship (2017–2024)

12. Recent winners of The Players Championship (2021–2024)

13. The top 30 players from the 2023 FedEx Cup points list
 * Taylor Moore

14. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2024 FedEx Cup points list through the Travelers Championship

15. Winner of the 2024 Visa Open de Argentina
 * Mason Andersen

16. The first 5 players on the 2024 Federations Ranking List as of closing date


 * Kazuma Kobori
 * Andy Ogletree
 * David Puig
 * Keita Nakajima
 * Ryan van Velzen

17. Winner of the 2023 Japan Open Golf Championship
 * Aguri Iwasaki

18. Winner of the 2023 Senior Open Championship
 * Alex Čejka

19. Winner of the 2024 Amateur Championship

20. Winner of the 2023 U.S. Amateur

21. Winner of the 2024 European Amateur

22. Recipient of the 2023 Mark H. McCormack Medal
 * Gordon Sargent (a)

23. Winner of the 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship
 * Jasper Stubbs (a)

24. Winner of the 2024 Latin America Amateur Championship
 * Santiago de la Fuente

25. Winner of the 2024 Open Amateur Series

26. Africa Amateur Champion
 * Altin Van der Merwe

27. Medical exemption
 * Michael Hendry

Open Qualifying Series
The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) for the 2024 Open Championship consists of 12 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 in previous years, if a player who has qualified through OQS becomes exempt through other criteria before 1 June, the next highest non-exempt finisher from that OQS event will become exempt.

Final Qualifying
Final qualifying will be played on 2 July at four locations, with players who advanced from regional qualifying events (held on 24 June at 15 locations) as well as those exempt from regional qualifying.