150th Open Championship

Tournament information
Dates	14–17 July 2022
Location	St Andrews, Scotland 56°20′35″N2°48′11″W / 56.343°N 2.803°W /56.343; -2.803
Course	Old Course
Organized by	The R&A
Tours	European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,297 yd (6,672 m)
Field	156 players, 83 after cut
Cut	144 (E)
Prize fund	$14,000,000
Winner's share	$2,500,000
Champion
Cameron Smith
268 (−20)
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The2022 Open Championship, officially the 150thOpen Championship, was agolf tournament played 14–17 July on theOld Course at St Andrews, Scotland. The championship was won byCameron Smith with a score of 268, 20 under par, one stroke ahead ofCameron Young.

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

The Open Championship is organised bythe R&A, and is included in thePGA Tour,European Tour, andJapan Golf Tour calendars under themajor 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 acut, 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 aggregateplayoff will be held to determine the winner; this will be followed by sudden-death extra holes if necessary until a winner emerges.

The 2022 event was the 30th Open Championship played at the Old Course at St Andrews.^[2] The most recent was in2015, whenZach Johnson won thefour-hole playoff for his secondmajor title.

Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):^[4]

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 theworld 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, includingThe Amateur Championship andU.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.

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

• Ben Curtis,Todd Hamilton, andJustin Leonard did not play.

2. The Open Champions for 2011–2021

3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the2021 Open Championship

• Daniel Berger (4,12,15) did not play.^[b]

4. Top 50 players in theOfficial World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2022

5. Top 30 in the final2021Race to Dubai standings

• Justin Rose did not play.^[c]

6. Recent winners of theBMW PGA Championship (2018–2021)

7. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the2022 DP World Tour Rankings through theBMW International Open

8. Recent winners of theU.S. Open (2017–2022)

9. Recent winners of theMasters Tournament (2017–2022)

10. Recent winners of thePGA Championship (2016–2022)

• Jimmy Walker did not play.

11. Recent winners of thePlayers Championship (2019–2022)

12. The top 30 players from the2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs

• Erik van Rooyen did not play.^[d]

13. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the2021–22FedEx Cup points list through theTravelers Championship^[e]

14. Winner of the 2021Visa Open de Argentina

15. Playing members of the2021 Ryder Cup teams

16. Winner of the2021–22 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

17. Winner of the2021–22 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

18. Winner of the 2021Japan Open Golf Championship

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

20. Top two players on the2020–21 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List

21. The top player, not already exempt, on the2022 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List through theJapan Golf Tour Championship

22. Winner of the2021 Senior Open Championship

23. Winner of the 2022Amateur Championship

24. Winner of the 2021U.S. Amateur

25. Winner of the 2022European Amateur

26. Recipient of the 2021Mark H. McCormack Medal

27. Winner of the 2021Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship

28. Winner of the 2022Latin America Amateur Championship

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 topn and ties. In the event of ties, positions went to players ranked highest according to that week'sOWGR.^[11]

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.^[12]

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:^[13]

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

Thursday, 14 July 2022

PGA Tour rookieCameron Young had a two-shot lead after a bogey-free round of 8 under par, two shots ahead of pre-tournament favouriteRory McIlroy.^[14] Defending championCollin Morikawa opened with a level-par 72 while three-time winnerTiger Woods double-bogeyed the first and continued to struggle there on, finishing at 6 over.^[15]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Cameron Young	64	−8
2	Rory McIlroy	66	−6
T3	Robert Dinwiddie	67	−5
	Cameron Smith
T5	Barclay Brown (a)	68	−4
	Talor Gooch
	Viktor Hovland
	Dustin Johnson
	Brad Kennedy
	Kurt Kitayama
	Scottie Scheffler
	Lee Westwood

Source:^[16]

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.^[17]Cameron Young fell to second place, two strokes behind, after a second-round 69.Viktor Hovland andRory McIlroy were a further stroke behind in a tie for third place. 83 players made the cut of level par, including four amateurs. Defending championCollin Morikawa missed the cut by a stroke.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Cameron Smith	67-64=131	−13
2	Cameron Young	64-69=133	−11
T3	Viktor Hovland	68-66=134	−10
	Rory McIlroy	66-68=134
5	Dustin Johnson	68-67=135	−9
T6	Tyrrell Hatton	70-66=136	−8
	Scottie Scheffler	68-68=136
T8	Patrick Cantlay	70-67=137	−7
	Talor Gooch	68-69=137
	Adam Scott	72-65=137
	Sahith Theegala	69-68=137

Source:^[16]

Saturday, 16 July 2022

Viktor Hovland andRory McIlroy each shot rounds of 66 to tie for first after the third round at −16.Cameron Smith, who shot 73, andCameron 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.^[18]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Viktor Hovland	68-66-66=200	−16
	Rory McIlroy	66-68-66=200
T3	Cameron Smith	67-64-73=204	−12
	Cameron Young	64-69-71=204
T5	Kim Si-woo	69-69-67=205	−11
	Scottie Scheffler	68-68-69=205
7	Dustin Johnson	68-67-71=206	−10
T8	Matt Fitzpatrick	72-66-69=207	−9
	Tommy Fleetwood	72-69-66=207
	Adam Scott	72-65-70=207

Source:^[16]

Sunday, 17 July 2022

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 withTommy Fleetwood. Smith's total of 20 under par tied the to-par record in a major, last reached byDustin Johnson at the2020 Masters Tournament.^[19]

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Cameron Smith	67-64-73-64=268	−20	2,500,000
2	Cameron Young	64-69-71-65=269	−19	1,455,000
3	Rory McIlroy (c)	66-68-66-70=270	−18	933,000
T4	Tommy Fleetwood	72-69-66-67=274	−14	654,000
	Viktor Hovland	68-66-66-74=274
T6	Brian Harman	73-68-68-66=275	−13	465,900
	Dustin Johnson	68-67-71-69=275
T8	Patrick Cantlay	70-67-71-68=276	−12	325,667
	Bryson DeChambeau	69-74-67-66=276
	Jordan Spieth (c)	71-69-68-68=276

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T11	Abraham Ancer	71-68-73-65=277	−11	231,000
	Dean Burmester	71-73-67-66=277
	Tyrrell Hatton	70-66-73-68=277
	Sadom Kaewkanjana	71-67-74-65=277
T15	Lucas Herbert	70-68-73-67=278	−10	165,583
	Kim Si-woo	69-69-67-73=278
	Francesco Molinari (c)	73-71-66-68=278
	Anthony Quayle	74-69-68-67=278
	Xander Schauffele	69-70-72-67=278
	Adam Scott	72-65-70-71=278
T21	Matt Fitzpatrick	72-66-69-72=279	−9	120,286
	Billy Horschel	73-69-70-67=279
	Kevin Kisner	74-70-65-70=279
	Min Woo Lee	69-69-73-68=279
	Shane Lowry (c)	72-68-69-70=279
	Trey Mullinax	71-73-66-69=279
	Scottie Scheffler	68-68-69-74=279
T28	Corey Conners	71-71-71-67=280	−8	90,917
	Tony Finau	73-71-70-66=280
	Dylan Frittelli	70-71-69-70=280
	Thomas Pieters	75-67-67-71=280
	Harold Varner III	73-67-72-68=280
	Will Zalatoris	73-67-71-69=280
T34	Thomas Detry	70-69-74-68=281	−7	68,906
	Talor Gooch	68-69-75-69=281
	Robert MacIntyre	70-74-69-68=281
	Victor Perez	71-69-71-70=281
	Jon Rahm	73-67-71-70=281
	Sahith Theegala	69-68-74-70=281
	Lee Westwood	68-71-73-69=281
	Aaron Wise	72-67-71-71=281
T42	Sam Burns	72-69-77-64=282	−6	51,000
	Chris Kirk	75-68-69-70=282
	Jason Kokrak	72-70-72-68=282
	Thriston Lawrence	69-71-73-69=282
	Adrian Meronk	75-68-70-69=282
T47	Filippo Celli (a)	74-67-71-71=283	−5
	Garrick Higgo	72-69-76-66=283		40,600
	Yuto Katsuragawa	71-68-75-69=283
	Tom Kim	69-71-72-71=283
	Patrick Reed	72-68-76-67=283
	Jordan Smith	73-71-72-67=283
T53	Paul Casey	71-72-71-70=284	−4	35,656
	Robert Dinwiddie	67-77-71-69=284
	Nicolai Højgaard	73-67-71-73=284
	Brad Kennedy	68-72-72-72=284
	Joaquín Niemann	69-74-73-68=284
	Justin Thomas	72-70-72-70=284
	Jason Scrivener	72-71-71-70=284
	Lars van Meijel	74-70-71-69=284
	Danny Willett	69-73-73-69=284
T62	David Carey	72-67-73-73=285	−3	33,625
	Russell Henley	70-72-68-75=285
	Sebastián Muñoz	73-71-71-70=285
	John Parry	69-74-70-72=285
	Ian Poulter	69-72-70-74=285
	Cameron Tringale	71-71-74-69=285
T68	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	73-71-68-74=286	−2	32,525
	Sergio García	75-66-72-73=286
	Richard Mansell	73-71-68-74=286
	Hideki Matsuyama	71-72-76-67=286
T72	Kurt Kitayama	68-73-73-73=287	−1	32,013
	David Law	72-69-77-69=287
T74	Marcus Armitage	71-72-71-74=288	E	31,763
	Justin De Los Santos	71-73-70-74=288
T76	Adri Arnaus	74-70-73-72=289	+1	31,513
	Wyndham Clark	71-73-76-69=289
	Aaron Jarvis (a)	75-69-72-73=289
T79	Barclay Brown (a)	68-70-77-75=290	+2
	Laurie Canter	72-70-74-74=290		31,325
T81	Sam Bairstow (a)	72-72-79-69=292	+4
	Im Sung-jae	71-73-74-74=292		31,200
83	Jamie Rutherford	73-70-78-75=296	+8	31,075
CUT	Ben Campbell	74-71=145	+1
	Jamie Donaldson	76-69=145
	Ernie Els (c)	70-75=145
	Justin Harding	74-71=145
	Max Homa	73-72=145
	Takumi Kanaya	74-71=145
	Zander Lombard	77-68=145
	Keith Mitchell	76-69=145
	Collin Morikawa (c)	72-73=145
	Louis Oosthuizen (c)	71-74=145
	Webb Simpson	71-74=145
	Henrik Stenson (c)	75-70=145
	Scott Vincent	69-76=145
	Brandon Wu	71-74=145
	Alexander Björk	75-71=146	+2
	Richard Bland	78-68=146
	Ryan Fox	71-75=146
	Matthew Griffin	74-72=146
	Emiliano Grillo	78-68=146
	Matthew Jordan	74-72=146
	Chan Kim	74-72=146
	Lee Kyoung-hoon	69-77=146
	J. T. Poston	73-73=146
	Keegan Bradley	76-71=147	+3
	John Catlin	74-73=147
	John Daly (c)	73-74=147
	Matt Ford	71-76=147
	Pádraig Harrington (c)	69-78=147
	Zach Johnson (c)	72-75=147
	Guido Migliozzi	73-74=147
	Keita Nakajima (a)	72-75=147
	Shaun Norris	74-73=147
	Aaron Rai	75-72=147
	Ashley Chesters	75-73=148	+4
	Cho Min-gyu	75-73=148
	Rikuya Hoshino	75-73=148
	Mackenzie Hughes	73-75=148
	Brooks Koepka	73-75=148
	Kevin Na	72-76=148
	Séamus Power	73-75=148
	Bernd Wiesberger	72-76=148
	Stewart Cink (c)	78-71=149	+5
	Kazuki Higa	73-76=149
	Sihwan Kim	76-73=149
	Li Haotong	73-76=149
	Luke List	76-73=149
	Phil Mickelson (c)	72-77=149
	Marco Penge	76-73=149
	Mito Pereira	75-74=149
	Fabrizio Zanotti	72-77=149
	Harris English	76-74=150	+6
	Oliver Farr	76-74=150
	Tom Hoge	74-76=150
	Kim Min-kyu	73-77=150
	Marc Leishman	76-74=150
	Aldrich Potgieter (a)	74-76=150
	Gary Woodland	74-76=150
	Stephen Dodd	77-74=151	+7
	Jorge Fernández-Valdés	74-77=151
	Paul Lawrie (c)	74-77=151
	Ronan Mullarney	73-78=151
	Dimitrios Papadatos	77-74=151
	Sam Horsfield	76-76=152	+8
	Shugo Imahira	80-72=152
Sepp Straka	81-72=153	+9
Tiger Woods (c)	78-75=153
Darren Clarke (c)	79-75=154	+10
Jack Floydd	75-79=154
Jediah Morgan	79-76=155	+11
Alex Wrigley	82-73=155
David Duval (c)	82-74=156	+12
Pablo Larrazábal	75-81=156
Mark Calcavecchia (c)	83-82=165	+21

Source:^[16]

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	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

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Source:^[16]

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