2022 Open Championship Explained

150th Open Championship
Dates:14–17 July 2022
Location:St Andrews, Scotland
Course:Old Course
Org:The R&A
Par:72
Yardage:7297yd
Field:156 players, 83 after cut
Cut:144 (E)
Purse:$14,000,000
Winners Share:$2,500,000
Champion: Cameron Smith
Score:268 (−20)
Previous:2021
Next:2023
Map:UK#Scotland#Scotland Fife
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:St Andrews
Coordinates:56.343°N -2.803°W

The 2022 Open Championship, officially the 150th Open Championship, was a golf tournament played 14–17 July on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland. The championship was won by Cameron Smith with a score of 268, 20 under par, one stroke ahead of Cameron Young.

Originally scheduled for 15–18 July 2021, the championship was put back one year after the 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring that the sesquicentennial celebration was at the "home of golf".[1]

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 four-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

See main article: Old Course at St Andrews. The 2022 event was the 30th Open Championship played at the Old Course at St Andrews.[2] 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:[3] Total7,29772
Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):[4]

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.[5] [6]

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

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 DP World Tour Rankings through the BMW International Open

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

14. Winner of the 2021 Visa 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

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

18. Winner of the 2021 Japan Open Golf Championship

19. Winner of the 2022 Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Diamond Cup

20. Top two players on the 2020–21 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

22. Winner of the 2021 Senior Open Championship

23. Winner of the 2022 Amateur Championship

24. Winner of the 2021 U.S. Amateur

25. Winner of the 2022 European Amateur

26. Recipient of the 2021 Mark H. McCormack Medal

27. Winner of the 2021 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship

28. Winner of the 2022 Latin America Amateur Championship

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]

Location Tournament Date Spots Top Qualifiers
South Africa 28 Nov 2021 3 10 Ashley Chesters, Thriston Lawrence, Zander Lombard
Singapore 23 Jan 2022 4 12 Sadom Kaewkanjana, Yuto Katsuragawa, Tom Kim, Sihwan Kim
Australia 13 Feb 2022 3 10 Ben Campbell, Matthew Griffin, Dimitrios Papadatos
United States 6 Mar 2022 3 10 Talor Gooch (4), Chris Kirk
Japan 29 May 2022 4 12 Justin De Los Santos, Brad Kennedy, Anthony Quayle, Scott Vincent
Netherlands 29 May 2022 3 10
Canada 12 Jun 2022 2 8 Wyndham Clark, Keith Mitchell
Korea 26 Jun 2022 2 8 Cho Min-gyu, Kim Min-kyu
Ireland 3 Jul 2022 3 10 John Catlin, David Law, Fabrizio Zanotti
United States 3 Jul 2022 3 10 Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Emiliano Grillo, J. T. Poston
Scotland 10 Jul 2022 3 10 Jamie Donaldson, Kurt Kitayama, Brandon Wu
United States 10 Jul 2022 1 5 Trey Mullinax

Final Qualifying

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

Location Qualifiers
David Carey, Robert Dinwiddie, Lars van Meijel, Alex Wrigley
Barclay Brown (a), Oliver Farr, Richard Mansell, Marco Penge
Jack Floydd, Matt Ford, Ronan Mullarney, Jamie Rutherford
Marcus Armitage, Sam Bairstow (a), Matthew Jordan, John Parry

Additional players added to the field

In order to fill additional places or replace exempt players who had withdrawn prior to the start of the Championship, and maintain the full field of 156, additional players were either taken in ranking order from Official World Golf Ranking at the time they were added, or from Final Qualifying.[6]

From the Week 26 (26 June) Official World Golf Ranking:[9]

From the Week 27 (3 July) Official World Golf Ranking:

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 14 July 2022

PGA Tour rookie Cameron Young had a two-shot lead after a bogey-free round of 8 under par, two shots ahead of pre-tournament favourite Rory McIlroy.[10] Defending champion Collin Morikawa opened with a level-par 72 while three-time winner Tiger Woods double-bogeyed the first and continued to struggle there on, finishing at 6 over.[11]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 64 −8
2 66 −6
T3 67 −5
Cameron Smith
T5 Barclay Brown (a) 68 −4
Talor Gooch
Viktor Hovland
Dustin Johnson
Brad Kennedy
Kurt Kitayama
Scottie Scheffler
Lee Westwood

[12]

Second round

Friday, 15 July 2022

Cameron Smith took the lead on a score of 131, the lowest 36-hole score in Open Championship history at St. Andrews.[13] Cameron Young fell to second place, two strokes behind, after a second-round 69. Viktor Hovland and Rory McIlroy were a further stroke behind in a tie for third place. 83 players made the cut of level par, including four amateurs. Defending champion Collin Morikawa missed the cut by a stroke.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 67-64=131 −13
2 64-69=133 −11
T3 68-66=134 −10
66-68=134
5 68-67=135 −9
T6 70-66=136 −8
68-68=136
T8 70-67=137 −7
68-69=137
72-65=137
69-68=137

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Third round

Saturday, 16 July 2022

Viktor Hovland and Rory McIlroy each shot rounds of 66 to tie for first after the third round at −16. Cameron Smith, who shot 73, and Cameron Young, who shot 71, dropped back to four strokes behind at −12. McIlroy was trying for his second Open title and first major victory in eight years while Hovland was looking for his first major.[14]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 68-66-66=200 −16
66-68-66=200
T3 67-64-73=204 −12
64-69-71=204
T5 69-69-67=205 −11
68-68-69=205
7 68-67-71=206 −10
T8 72-66-69=207 −9
72-69-66=207
72-65-70=207

[12]

Final round

Sunday, 17 July 2022

Summary

Cameron Smith came from four strokes behind to win the Open. He made eight birdies in his round of 64, which was joint low round of the tournament, and was the lowest final round score by a champion at St Andrews. Cameron Young made an eagle on the final hole to finish one stroke back. Rory McIlroy, third round co-leader, managed only two birdies in his round and finished a further stroke behind. Viktor Hovland, the other third round co-leader, shot a two-over-par 74 to finish tied for fourth with Tommy Fleetwood. Smith's total of 20 under par tied the to-par record in a major, last reached by Dustin Johnson at the 2020 Masters Tournament.[15]

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Medal winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10!Place!!Player!!Score!!To par!!Money ($)
1 Cameron Smith 67-64-73-64=268 −20 2,500,000
2 64-69-71-65=269 −19 1,455,000
3 Rory McIlroy (c) 66-68-66-70=270 −18 933,000
T4 72-69-66-67=274 −14 654,000
68-66-66-74=274
T6 73-68-68-66=275 −13 465,900
68-67-71-69=275
T8 70-67-71-68=276 −12 325,667
69-74-67-66=276
Jordan Spieth (c) 71-69-68-68=276

[12]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718
Par4 4 4 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 4 4
Smith −12 −13 −13 −13 −14 −14 −14 −14 −14 −15 −16 −17 −18 −19 −19 −19 −19 −20
Young −11 −11 −12 −13 −14 −14 −15 −15 −14 −15 −15 −15 −16 −17 −17 −17 −17 −19
McIlroy −16 −16 −16 −16 −17 −17 −17 −17 −17 −18 −18 −18 −18 −18 −18 −18 −18 −18
Hovland −16 −16 −16 −15 −15 −15 −15 −15 −15 −15 −15 −16 −15 −15 −15 −14 −14 −14

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

EagleBirdieBogey

[12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Open Championship canceled for fourth time in 150-year history due to coronavirus . Golf.com . 10 October 2022.
  2. News: Brian . McLauchlin . George . O'Neill . The Open: Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Jon Rahm on St Andrews Old Course . 17 July 2022 . . 12 July 2022.
  3. Web site: St Andrews – The Old Course . 19 February 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120921212811/http://www.standrews.org.uk/golf/the_courses/old_course.html . 21 September 2012.
  4. Web site: Media guide . The Open Championship . 2011 . 19, 203 . 30 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120418224641/http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx . 18 April 2012.
  5. Web site: The 150th Open - Exemptions . The Open Championship . 28 March 2022.
  6. Web site: The 150th Open - Entry terms and conditions . The Open Championship . 28 March 2022.
  7. Web site: The Open Qualifying Series / All You Need To Know . The Open Championship . 28 March 2022.
  8. Web site: Final Qualifying . The Open Championship . 27 June 2022.
  9. Dempster . Martin . Six players secure places in 150th Open through OWGR . 1542789669821317122 . DempsterMartin . 1 July 2022.
  10. News: Rory McIlroy's carefree 66 at the Open shows a player in control of his game . 14 July 2022 . The Guardian . Andy . Bull . 15 July 2022.
  11. News: The 150th Open - round one as it happened at St Andrews . 14 July 2022 . BBC Sport . 15 July 2022.
  12. Web site: The Open Championship: Leaderboard . ESPN . 17 July 2022.
  13. News: 16 July 2022 . Open Championship lowest score: Cameron Smith chases Tiger Woods' historic two-decade old record . Sporting News . 16 July 2022.
  14. News: Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland avoid blunders, share lead at Open Championship . ESPN . Associated Press . 16 July 2022.
  15. News: Cameron Smith wins Open Championship ahead of Cameron Young, Rory McIlroy . ESPN . Associated Press . 17 July 2022.

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