151st Open Championship

Tournament information
Dates	20–23 July 2023
Location	Hoylake,Merseyside,England 53°23′06″N3°11′24″W / 53.385°N 3.190°W /53.385; -3.190
Course(s)	Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Organized by	The R&A
Tour(s)	European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	7,383 yd (6,751 m)
Field	156 players, 76 after cut
Cut	145 (+3)
Prize fund	US$16,500,000[1]
Winner's share	$3,000,000[1]
Champion
Brian Harman
271 (−13)
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The2023 Open Championship, officially the 151stOpen Championship, was agolf tournament played from 20–23 July 2023 atRoyal Liverpool Golf Club inHoylake,Merseyside,England. This was the 13th time that The Open was played at Royal Liverpool.^[2]

Brian Harman won his first career Open Championship by six shots overJason Day,Tom Kim,Jon Rahm, andSepp Straka. It was Harman's first career major championship and his firstPGA Tour win in six years.^[3]

The 2023 Open Championship was organized bythe R&A, and was included in thePGA Tour,European Tour, andJapan Golf Tour calendars under themajor championships category. The tournament was a 72-hole (4 rounds)stroke play competition held over 4 days, with 18 holes played each day. Play was in groups of three for the first two days, and groups of two in the final two days. Groupings for the first two days were decided by the organizers, with each group having one morning and one afternoon tee time. On the final two days, players teed off in reverse order of aggregate score, with the leaders last. After 36 holes there was acut, after which the top 70 and ties progressed through to compete in the third and fourth rounds. In the event of a tie for the lowest score after four rounds, a three-hole aggregateplayoff would have been held to determine the winner; this would have been followed by sudden-death extra holes if necessary until a winner emerges.^[4]

On 7 December 2020, the R&A announced that the Royal Liverpool Golf Club would host the 2023 edition of the Open, and theRoyal Troon Golf Club will host the 2024 edition.^[5] The 2023 event is the 13th Open Championship played at Royal Liverpool.^[6] The most recent was in2014, whenRory McIlroy won the event by two strokes for his thirdmajor title.

The Royal Liverpool Golf Club underwent a number of changes prior to the 2023 Open, including adding the new seventeenth hole, a par 3, lowering the par of the course to 71. Despite the decrease in par, the overall yardage of the course was increased by 71 yards to a total of 7,383 yards. New bunkers were added to holes one, thirteen, fourteen, and sixteen, the green on the fourth hole was reduced in size and modified to allow for harder pin positions, and longer championship tees were added to the seventh, fifteenth, and eighteenth hole.^[7]

Yardage by round

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.^[11]

Most exemption criteria remained unchanged from previous years; changes included the removal of exemptions for recentRyder Cup andPresidents Cup players,^[12] and a new exemption for amateur golfers.^[13]

Thursday, 20 July 2023

Tommy Fleetwood, who grew up just 20 miles fromRoyal Liverpool, made three straight birdies on the back nine and only one bogey in a five-under round of 66 to share the lead after the first round.^[14]

AmateurChristo Lamprecht chipped in for birdie at the par-4 14th hole and two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th hole to tie Fleetwood for the first-round lead. His 66 was the lowest score by an amateur in the first round of the Open Championship sinceTom Lewis in2011. They were joined atop the leaderboard byEmiliano Grillo, who birdied five of his last eight holes.^[15]

Brian Harman holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th to finish at four-under 67 and part of a group tied for fourth place, along withAdrián Otaegui andAntoine Rozner. ReigningU.S. Open championWyndham Clark began his round with nine straight pars but made four birdies on the back nine to shoot 68 (−3) and end up in a tie for seventh place along with2009 championStewart Cink andMax Homa.^[16]

Defending championCameron Smith made five bogeys in a one-over round of 72.Rory McIlroy, who won the last time the tournament was held at this course, was two-over on his round before consecutive birdies on holes 14–15. He saved par after having to play backwards from a greenside bunker on the 18th to shoot even-par 71.^[17]

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Tommy Fleetwood	66	−5
	Emiliano Grillo
	Christo Lamprecht (a)
T4	Brian Harman	67	−4
	Adrián Otaegui
	Antoine Rozner
T7	Stewart Cink	68	−3
	Wyndham Clark
	Max Homa
	Alex Norén
	Shubhankar Sharma
	Michael Stewart

Friday, 21 July 2023

Brian Harman birdied four straight holes on his front nine, then made 12 pars before holing a 15-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th hole to shoot a bogey-free round of 65 (−6). Harman's five-shot lead tied the largest after 36 holes at the Open Championship since 1934.^[18][19]

Tommy Fleetwood, who began the round in a three-way tie for the lead, was one over through nine holes before making a 58-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole. He made two more birdies on the back nine along with two bogeys to shoot an even-par 71 and finish alone in second place behind Harman.Sepp Straka finished his round with six birdies over his last seven holes and moved up to sole possession of third place with a round of 67 (−4). AmateurChristo Lamprecht, tied for the lead at the start of the round, bogeyed five of his first seven holes and did not make a birdie in an eight-over round of 79 to fall to a tie for 61st place.^[20][21]

The cut came at 145 (+3). Notables to miss the cut included2021 championCollin Morikawa,2019 championShane Lowry,2013 championPhil Mickelson, and two-time major championsDustin Johnson andJustin Thomas.^[22]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Brian Harman	67-65=132	−10
2	Tommy Fleetwood	66-71=137	−5
3	Sepp Straka	71-67=138	−4
T4	Jason Day	72-67=139	−3
	Min Woo Lee	71-68=139
	Shubhankar Sharma	68-71=139
T7	Emiliano Grillo	66-74=140	−2
	Adrián Otaegui	67-73=140
	Jordan Spieth	69-71=140
	Cameron Young	72-68=140

Saturday, 22 July 2023

Brian Harman began the round with a five-shot lead but bogeyed two of his first four holes to cut his advantage to two shots. He then made four birdies the rest of his round, including a 20-foot putt on the 12th hole to reach 12 under for the tournament, to shoot a two-under 69 and move back in front by five shots heading to the final round.^[23]

Cameron Young holed a 30-foot birdie putt to open his round and made five more birdies, including both par 5s on the back nine, shooting 66 (−5) to finish alone in second place at seven under.Jon Rahm began the round in 39th place and 12 shots off the lead but made four straight birdies making the turn, playing the back nine in six under for a round of 63 (−8) and moving up to third place, six shots behind Harman. His 63 was the lowest round in an Open Championship atRoyal Liverpool by two shots.^[24]

Tommy Fleetwood, playing in the final group with Harman, birdied the second hole to get within two shots of the lead but didn't make another birdie the rest of his round, shooting an even-par 71 to fall into a tie for fourth place withJason Day,Viktor Hovland,Antoine Rozner, andSepp Straka, seven shots back.^[25]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Brian Harman	67-65-69=201	−12
2	Cameron Young	72-68-66=206	−7
3	Jon Rahm	74-70-63=207	−6
T4	Jason Day	72-67-69=208	−5
	Tommy Fleetwood	66-71-71=208
	Viktor Hovland	70-72-66=208
	Antoine Rozner	67-74-67=208
	Sepp Straka	71-67-70=208
T9	Alex Fitzpatrick	74-70-65=209	−4
	Shubhankar Sharma	68-71-70=209

Sunday, 23 July 2023

Brian Harman shot a one-under 70 to win his first career Open Championship and major championship by six shots.^[26]

Harman began the round with a five-shot lead but bogeyed the par-5 fifth hole after taking a drop from thick bushes off the tee, his second bogey of the round that cut his lead to just three shots. He rebounded with birdies on his next two holes, including from 23 feet on the seventh hole, to reopen his five-shot advantage. After another bogey at the 13th, Harman holed a 40-foot birdie putt on the 14th and got up and down for birdie on the par-5 15th to reach 13-under for the tournament.^[27]He parred his last three holes, playing out of a greenside bunker to seven feet on the 18th and making the putt to clinch the title.^[28]

A group of four players finished at seven under and tied for second place.Tom Kim, playing with a sprained ankle he suffered earlier in the week, eagled the fifth hole after reaching the green in two shots as part of a four-under round of 67.Sepp Straka was three under on his round and alone in second place until a closing bogey at the 18th gave him a 69 (−2).Jon Rahm made a 23-foot birdie putt on the 18th to shoot 70 (−1), whileJason Day holed out for birdie from the rough on the ninth and added another birdie at the 15th for a 69.^[29]

Rory McIlroy, the2014 Open champion at Royal Liverpool, birdied three consecutive holes on his front nine to get within four shots of Harman's lead but was even par the rest of his round, finishing at six under and tied for sixth place withEmiliano Grillo.Cameron Young, playing in the final group with Harman, was three over on his round until a birdie at the 18th gave him a 73 (+2), dropping him into a tie for eighth place.Matthew Jordan, a member at Royal Liverpool, hit his approach on the 18th to six feet and made the birdie putt to finish at four under and in a tie for 10th place.^[30]

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Brian Harman	67-65-69-70=271	−13	3,000,000
T2	Jason Day	72-67-69-69=277	−7	1,084,625
	Tom Kim	74-68-68-67=277
	Jon Rahm	74-70-63-70=277
	Sepp Straka	71-67-70-69=277
T6	Emiliano Grillo	66-74-70-68=278	−6	551,250
	Rory McIlroy (c)	71-70-69-68=278
T8	Shubhankar Sharma	68-71-70-70=279	−5	403,350
	Cameron Young	72-68-66-73=279
T10	Tommy Fleetwood	66-71-71-72=280	−4	308,400
	Max Homa	68-73-70-69=280
	Matthew Jordan	69-72-69-70=280

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T13	Thomas Detry	74-69-67-71=281	−3	241,633
	Viktor Hovland	70-71-66-73=281
	Hideki Matsuyama	70-72-69-70=281
	Henrik Stenson (c)	73-68-71-69=281
T17	Laurie Canter	71-70-73-68=282	−2	192,575
	Alex Fitzpatrick	74-70-65-73=282
	Xander Schauffele	70-74-68-70=282
T20	Tyrrell Hatton	71-73-68-71=283	−1	163,067
	Im Sung-jae	70-74-67-72=283
	Antoine Rozner	67-74-67-75=283
T23	An Byeong-hun	73-70-69-72=284	E	121,490
	Stewart Cink (c)	68-73-71-72=284
	Rickie Fowler	72-73-67-72=284
	Nicolai Højgaard	71-70-69-74=284
	Adrian Meronk	72-71-74-67=284
	Alex Norén	68-75-71-70=284
	Louis Oosthuizen (c)	74-70-71-69=284
	Scottie Scheffler	70-75-72-67=284
	Matthew Southgate	71-70-74-69=284
	Jordan Spieth (c)	69-71-71-73=284
T33	Richard Bland	70-71-71-73=285	+1	84,113
	Patrick Cantlay	70-75-67-73=285
	Wyndham Clark	68-73-71-73=285
	Romain Langasque	70-74-67-74=285
	Patrick Reed	70-74-68-73=285
	Adam Scott	72-73-71-69=285
	Cameron Smith (c)	72-72-68-73=285
	Oliver Wilson	69-74-71-71=285
T41	Alexander Björk	69-73-70-74=286	+2	58,725
	Matt Fitzpatrick	72-72-67-75=286
	Min Woo Lee	71-68-72-75=286
	Hurly Long	72-72-71-71=286
	Victor Perez	74-71-71-70=286
	J. T. Poston	71-73-69-73=286
	Marcel Siem	71-71-74-70=286
	Jordan Smith	71-72-71-72=286
T49	Abraham Ancer	72-71-71-73=287	+3	45,933
	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	73-71-71-72=287
	Brendon Todd	74-70-69-74=287
T52	Corey Conners	73-71-68-76=288	+4	43,433
	Ryan Fox	78-67-69-74=288
	Michael Stewart	68-73-71-76=288
T55	Zach Johnson (c)	75-69-71-74=289	+5	41,375
	Adrián Otaegui	67-73-77-72=289
	Andrew Putnam	73-72-72-71=289
	Gary Woodland	73-71-73-72=289
59	Brandon Robinson-Thompson	73-73-73-73=290	+6	40,500
T60	Bryson DeChambeau	74-70-74-73=291	+7	40,200
	Rikuya Hoshino	75-69-70-77=291
	Kurt Kitayama	72-72-72-75=291
	Scott Stallings	74-71-75-71=291
T64	Pádraig Harrington (c)	74-71-73-74=292	+8	39,400
	Brooks Koepka	70-75-72-75=292
	Guido Migliozzi	69-72-71-80=292
	Richie Ramsay	73-72-71-76=292
T68	David Lingmerth	70-75-70-78=293	+9	38,300
	Sami Välimäki	76-68-70-79=293
	Danny Willett	73-72-75-73=293
T71	Joost Luiten	71-72-71-80=294	+10	37,675
	Robert MacIntyre	74-71-73-76=294
	Thomas Pieters	70-73-71-80=294
T74	Christo Lamprecht (a)	66-79-76-74=295	+11	0
	Thriston Lawrence	71-70-75-79=295		37,300
76	Zack Fischer	71-73-75-78=296	+13	37,175
CUT	Keegan Bradley	70−76=146	+4
	Ben Griffin	75−71=146
	Kang Kyung-nam	78−68=146
	Pablo Larrazábal	72−74=146
	Taylor Moore	76−70=146
	Collin Morikawa (c)	78−68=146
	Séamus Power	78−68=146
	Kazuki Yasumori	73−73=146
	José Luis Ballester (a)	73−74=147	+5
	Harris English	75−72=147
	Lucas Herbert	71−76=147
	Tom Hoge	72−75=147
	Joaquín Niemann	78−69=147
	Yannik Paul	77−70=147
	Sahith Theegala	79−68=147
	Sam Burns	73−75=148	+6
	Tony Finau	73−75=148
	Kazuki Higa	73−75=148
	Billy Horschel	73−75=148
	Kim Bi-o	74−74=148
	Michael Kim	75−73=148
	Chris Kirk	78−70=148
	Lee Kyoung-hoon	75−73=148
	Francesco Molinari (c)	73−75=148
	Trey Mullinax	75−73=148
	Keita Nakajima	72−76=148
	Davis Riley	78−70=148
	Justin Rose	73−75=148
	Kalle Samooja	73−75=148
	Nick Taylor	73−75=148
	Matt Wallace	75−73=148
	Dan Bradbury	76−73=149	+7
	Nacho Elvira	72−77=149
	Ewen Ferguson	74−75=149
	Mateo Fernández de Oliveira (a)	77−72=149
	Talor Gooch	74−75=149
	Russell Henley	73−76=149
	Rasmus Højgaard	78−71=149
	Kim Si-woo	69−80=149
	Shane Lowry (c)	72−77=149
	Charl Schwartzel	77−72=149
	Ockie Strydom	72−77=149
	Connor Syme	74−75=149
	Darren Clarke (c)	73−77=150	+8
	Seungsu Han	76−74=150
	Thorbjørn Olesen	73−77=150
	Marco Penge	74−76=150
	Travis Smyth	78−72=150
	Haydn Barron	74−77=151	+9
	Tiger Christensen (a)	77−74=151
	Daniel Hillier	78−73=151
	Phil Mickelson (c)	77−74=151
	Ernie Els (c)	75−77=152	+10
	Branden Grace	73−79=152
	Alex Maguire (a)	72−80=152
	David Micheluzzi	77−75=152
	Taiga Semikawa	77−75=152
	Callum Shinkwin	78−74=152
	Lee Hodges	76−77=153	+11
	Takumi Kanaya	73−80=153
	Connor McKinney	76−77=153
	Justin Thomas	82−71=153
	Marc Warren	79−74=153
	Alejandro Cañizares	75−79=154	+12
John Daly (c)	77−77=154
Oliver Farr	74−80=154
Denny McCarthy	76−78=154
Graeme Robertson	75−79=154
Adam Schenk	79−75=154
Dustin Johnson	74−81=155	+13
Martin Rohwer	73−82=155
Kyle Barker	76−80=156	+14
Jorge Campillo	82−74=156
Harrison Crowe (a)	76−80=156
Hiroshi Iwata	77−79=156
Kensei Hirata	75−81=156
Gunner Wiebe	79−79=158	+16
Kho Taichi	83−77=160	+18
Adri Arnaus	82−81=163	+21
Jazz Janewattananond	81−83=164	+22

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	3	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	3	5
Harman	−12	−11	−11	−11	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13
Day	−5	−5	−4	−4	−5	−5	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7
Kim	−2	−1	−1	−2	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7
Rahm	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7
Straka	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−7
McIlroy	−3	−3	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−6	−6
Grillo	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6
Young	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

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