2022 Open Championship


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".

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 [golf">Men's major golf championships">major [golf championships|major championships] category. The tournament is a 72-hole 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

The 2022 event was the 30th Open Championship played at the Old Course at St Andrews. The most recent was in 2015, when Zach Johnson won the four-hole playoff for his second major title.
Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship :
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.
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 for Week 21, 2022
5. Top 30 in the final 2021 Race to Dubai standings
6. Recent winners of the BMW PGA Championship
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
9. Recent winners of the Masters Tournament
10. Recent winners of the PGA Championship
11. Recent winners of the Players Championship
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
The Open Qualifying Series for the 2022 Open Championship consists of 12 events. Places are available to the leading players 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.
LocationTournamentDateSpotsTopQualifiers
South AfricaJoburg Open28 Nov 2021310Ashley Chesters, Thriston Lawrence, Zander Lombard
SingaporeSMBC Singapore Open23 Jan 2022412Sadom Kaewkanjana, Yuto Katsuragawa, Tom Kim, Sihwan Kim
AustraliaVic Open13 Feb 2022310Ben Campbell, Matthew Griffin, Dimitrios Papadatos
United StatesArnold Palmer Invitational6 Mar 2022310Talor Gooch, Chris Kirk
JapanGateway to The Open Mizuno Open29 May 2022412Justin De Los Santos, Brad Kennedy, Anthony Quayle, Scott Vincent
NetherlandsDutch Open29 May 2022310Ryan Fox, Adrian Meronk, Victor Perez
CanadaRBC Canadian Open12 Jun 202228Wyndham Clark, Keith Mitchell
KoreaKolon Korea Open26 Jun 202228Cho Min-gyu, Kim Min-kyu
IrelandHorizon Irish Open3 Jul 2022310John Catlin, David Law, Fabrizio Zanotti
United StatesJohn Deere Classic3 Jul 2022310Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Emiliano Grillo, J. T. Poston
ScotlandGenesis Scottish Open10 Jul 2022310Jamie Donaldson, Kurt Kitayama, Brandon Wu
United StatesBarbasol Championship10 Jul 202215Trey 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.
LocationQualifiers
Fairmont St AndrewsDavid Carey, Robert Dinwiddie, Lars van Meijel, Alex Wrigley
HollinwellBarclay Brown, Oliver Farr, Richard Mansell, Marco Penge
Prince'sJack Floydd, Matt Ford, Ronan Mullarney, Jamie Rutherford
St Annes Old LinksMarcus Armitage, Sam Bairstow, 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.

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. 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.
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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. 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.
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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.
PlacePlayerScoreTo par
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Final round

''Sunday, 17 July 2022''

Summary

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.

Final leaderboard

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Scorecard

Final round
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