SOUTHPORT, England (AP) \u2014 Players who are exempt or have qualified for the 154th British Open at Royal Birkdale on July 16-19. Players listed only in the first category for which they are eligible (a-amateur):<\/p>\n
British Open champions under 60 on July 20<\/p>\n
Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, Xander Schauffele<\/a>, Brian Harman<\/a>, Cameron Smith<\/a>, Collin Morikawa<\/a>, Shane Lowry<\/a>, Francesco Molinari<\/a>, Jordan Spieth<\/a>, Henrik Stenson<\/a>, Rory McIlroy<\/a>, Darren Clarke<\/a>, Louis Oosthuizen<\/a>, Stewart Cink<\/a>, Padraig Harrington<\/a>, David Duval<\/a>.<\/p>\n Top 10 and ties from the 2025 British Open<\/p>\n Harris English, Chris Gotterup<\/a>, Wyndham Clark<\/a>, Matt Fitzpatrick<\/a>, Haotong Li, Robert MacIntyre<\/a>, Corey Conners<\/a>, Russell Henley<\/a>, Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>.<\/p>\n Masters champion (5-year exemption)<\/p>\n Jon Rahm<\/a>.<\/p>\n PGA<\/a> champions (5-year exemption)<\/p>\n Aaron Rai<\/a>, Brooks Koepka<\/a>, Justin Thomas<\/a>.<\/p>\n U.S. Open champion (5-year exemption)<\/p>\n J.J. Spaun<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Players champions (3-year exemption)<\/p>\n Cameron Young<\/a>.<\/p>\n BMW PGA champions (3-year exemption)<\/p>\n Alex Noren<\/a>, Ryan Fox<\/a>.<\/p>\n Top 25 in the 2025 Race to Dubai<\/p>\n Tyrrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood<\/a>, Laurie Canter<\/a>, Kristoffer Reitan<\/a>, Adrien Saddier<\/a>, John Parry<\/a>, Aaron Rai, Keita Nakajima<\/a>, Jordan Smith, Daniel Brown<\/a>, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen<\/a>, Daniel Hiller, Martin Couvra<\/a>, Angel Ayora, Nicolai Hojgaard<\/a>, Justin Rose<\/a>, Joakim Lagergren<\/a>, Rasmus Hojgaard<\/a>.<\/p>\n Top 30 from the 2025 FedEx Cup<\/p>\n Patrick Cantlay, Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns<\/a>, Ben Griffin<\/a>, Viktor Hovland<\/a>, Akshay Bhatia<\/a>, Harry Hall, Nick Taylor<\/a>, Ludvig Aberg<\/a>, Maverick McNealy<\/a>, Andrew Novak<\/a>, Jacob Bridgeman<\/a>, Sungjae Im, Hideki Matsuyama<\/a>, Sepp Straka<\/a>.<\/p>\n Top 50 from the May 25 world ranking<\/p>\n Patrick Reed<\/a>, Kurt Kitayama<\/a>, Min Woo Lee<\/a>, Ryan Gerard<\/a>, Rickie Fowler<\/a>, Jake Knapp<\/a>, Jason Day<\/a>, Alex Smalley<\/a>, Gary Woodland<\/a>, Michael Kim<\/a>, Matt McCarty.<\/p>\n Top 5 from the leading 20 players in the FedEx Cup through the Travelers Championship<\/p>\n Alex Fitzpatrick<\/a>.<\/p>\n Top 5 from the leading 20 players in the Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open<\/p>\n Hennie Du Plessis, Bernd Wiesberger<\/a>, Jayden Schaper, Andy Sullivan<\/a>, Dan Bradbury<\/a>.<\/p>\n Leading player from LIV<\/a> Golf through LIV Golf-Andalucia<\/p>\n Joaquin Niemann.<\/p>\n Top 5 players from the OWGR Federation ranking on May 23, 2026<\/p>\n Travis Smyth<\/a>, Kazuki Higa<\/a>, Kota Kaneko<\/a>, Scott Vincent<\/a>.<\/p>\n U.S. Amateur champion<\/p>\n a-Mason Howell.<\/p>\n Asia-Pacific Amateur champion<\/p>\n a-Fifa Laopakdee.<\/p>\n Latin America Amateur champion<\/p>\n a-Mateo Pulcini.<\/p>\n Africa Amateur champion<\/p>\n a-Jack Buchanan.<\/p>\n British Amateur champion<\/p>\n a-Stuart Gregan.<\/p>\n European Amateur champion<\/p>\n a-Tim Wiedemeyer.<\/p>\n Open Amateur Series winner<\/p>\n a-Lev Grinberg.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Spanish Open<\/p>\n Marco Penge.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Japan Open<\/p>\n Naoyuki Kataoka.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Hong Kong Open<\/p>\n Tom McKibbin.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Australian Open<\/p>\n Michael Hollick, Adam Scott<\/a>, Si Woo Kim<\/a>.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-New Zealand Open<\/p>\n Lucas Herbert.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-South African Open<\/p>\n Casey Jarvis, Francesco Laporta<\/a>, Frederic Lacroix<\/a>.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Argentina Open<\/p>\n Alistair Docherty.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Arnold Palmer Invitational<\/p>\n Daniel Berger.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Singapore Open<\/p>\n Jeongwoo Ham, Cameron John<\/a>.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Korea Open<\/p>\n Jiho Yang.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Mizuno Open<\/p>\n Shaun Norris, Ryutaro Nagano<\/a>, Ren Yonezawa<\/a>.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Memorial<\/p>\n J.T. Poston.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Canadian Open<\/p>\n Bud Cauley, Jesper Svensson<\/a>, Jackson Suber<\/a>.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Italian Open<\/p>\n Eugenio Chacarra.<\/p>\n Open Qualifying Series-Scottish Open<\/p>\n To be determined July 12.<\/p>\n Final qualifying<\/p>\n James Nicholas<\/a>, Caleb Surratt<\/a>, Austen Truslow<\/a>, Tom Sloman, a-Alejandro de Castro Piera, Jack McDonald<\/a>, Matthew Baldwin<\/a>, a-David Howard, Marcus Plunkett<\/a>, a-Nevill Ruiter, Baard Skogen, M.J. Daffue, Matthew Southgate<\/a>, Peter Uihlein<\/a>, Antoine Rozner<\/a>, Sam Bairstow<\/a>, Kazuma Kobori<\/a>, Tiger Christensen<\/a>, Josele Ballester<\/a>, Matthew Jordan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last chance qualifying<\/p>\n To be determined July 13.<\/p>\n To fill the field from the July 5, 2026 world ranking<\/p>\n Sam Stevens<\/a>, Nico Echavarria, Pierceson Coody<\/a>, Ryo Hisatsune<\/a>, Michael Brennan<\/a>, David Puig<\/a>, Tom Kim<\/a>, Eric Cole<\/a>, Keith Mitchell<\/a>, Matt Wallace<\/a>, Sami Valimaki<\/a>, Max Homa<\/a>, Thomas Detry<\/a>, Max Greyserman<\/a>, Sahith Theegala<\/a>.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHPORT, England (AP) \u2014 Players who are exempt or have qualified for the 154th British Open at 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