2017 Open Championship

The 2017 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 146th Open Championship, held from 20–23 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. It was the tenth Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, which held its first in 1954.[2]

2017 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates20–23 July 2017
LocationSouthport, England
Course(s)Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Organized byThe R&A
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par70
Length7,156 yards (6,543 m)
Field156 players, 77 after cut
Cut145 (+5)
Prize fundUS$10,250,000[1]
€8,935,572
£7,890,000 (est.)
Winner's share$1,845,000
€1,608,403
£1,420,000 (est.)
Champion
Jordan Spieth
268 (−12)
Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Location in England
 Royal Birkdale
 Golf Club
Location in Southport, Merseyside,
north of Liverpool, England

Jordan Spieth shot four rounds under 70 for a score of 268, three strokes ahead of runner-up Matt Kuchar. It was Spieth's second wire-to-wire win at a major, following his 2015 Masters win. In the third round, Branden Grace scored 62, which set a new major championship record.[3]

This was the first year that the prize money was paid in U.S. dollars rather than British pounds.[4]

Media

This was the second Open Championship televised domestically by Sky Sports.[5] In the United States, it is the second Open Championship to be televised by NBC (Golf Channel's parent network).[6]

Venue
Main article: Royal Birkdale Golf Club

The 2017 event was the tenth Open Championship played at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club. Before 2017 the most recent was in 2008, where Pádraig Harrington successfully defended his 2007 title from Carnoustie.

The 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club
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Yardage448422451199346499177458416341640243618349920054243856747337407,156
Par444344344344434354543670

Lengths of the course for previous Opens:[7]

  • 2008: 7,173 yards (6,559 m), par 70
  • 1998: 7,018 yards (6,417 m), par 70
  • 1991: 6,940 yards (6,350 m), par 70
  • 1983: 6,968 yards (6,372 m), par 71
  • 1976: 7,001 yards (6,402 m), par 72
  • 1971: 7,080 yards (6,470 m), par 73
  • 1965: 7,037 yards (6,435 m), par 73
  • 1961: 6,844 yards (6,258 m), par 72[8]
  • 1954: 6,867 yards (6,279 m), par 73[2]

Field

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 23 July 2017

Stewart Cink (2), Darren Clarke (2), John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2), Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington (2), Zach Johnson (2,17), Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Sandy Lyle, Rory McIlroy (2,3,4,5,10,12,17), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4,12,17), Mark O'Meara, Louis Oosthuizen (2,4,5), Henrik Stenson (2,3,4,5,17)

2. The Open Champions for 2007–2016
3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2016 Open Championship

Sergio García (4,5,9,17), Bill Haas (4), Tyrrell Hatton (4,5), J. B. Holmes (4,12,17), Dustin Johnson (4,8,12,17), Andrew Johnston (5), Søren Kjeldsen (5), Steve Stricker

4. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2017

Daniel Berger (12), Wesley Bryan, Rafa Cabrera-Bello (5,17), Paul Casey (12), Kevin Chappell (12), Jason Day (10,11,12), Ross Fisher (5), Matthew Fitzpatrick (5,17), Tommy Fleetwood, Rickie Fowler (11,17), Branden Grace (5), Emiliano Grillo (12), Adam Hadwin, Billy Horschel, Kim Si-woo (11,12), Kevin Kisner (12), Russell Knox (12), Brooks Koepka (8,17), Matt Kuchar (12,17), Marc Leishman, Hideki Matsuyama (12,21), William McGirt (12), Francesco Molinari (5), Ryan Moore (12,17), Alex Norén (5,6), Pat Perez, Thomas Pieters (5,17), Jon Rahm, Patrick Reed (12,17), Justin Rose (8,14,17), Charl Schwartzel (5,12), Adam Scott (9,12), Jordan Spieth (8,9,12,17), Hideto Tanihara (22), Justin Thomas (12), Jimmy Walker (10,12,17), Bubba Watson (9,12), Bernd Wiesberger (5), Danny Willett (5,9,17), Gary Woodland (12)

5. Top 30 on the 2016 Race to Dubai

Richard Bland, Scott Hend (18), David Horsey, Thongchai Jaidee, Martin Kaymer (8,17), Li Haotong, Shane Lowry, Joost Luiten, Thorbjørn Olesen, Andy Sullivan (17), Wang Jeung-hun, Lee Westwood (17), Chris Wood (6,17)

6. Last three BMW PGA Championship winners

An Byeong-hun

7. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2017 Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open

Dylan Frittelli, Pablo Larrazábal, Alexander Lévy, David Lipsky, Fabrizio Zanotti

8. Last five U.S. Open winners
9. Last five Masters Tournament winners
10. Last five PGA Championship winners

Jason Dufner (12)

11. Last three Players Championship winners
12. The 30 qualifiers for the 2016 Tour Championship

Roberto Castro, Kevin Na, Sean O'Hair, Jhonattan Vegas

13. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2017 FedEx Cup points list through the Travelers Championship

Brian Harman, Russell Henley, Charley Hoffman, Brendan Steele

14. Winner of the 2016 Olympic Golf Tournament
15. Winner of the 2016 Open de Argentina

Kent Bulle

16. Winner and runner-up from the 2017 Korea Open

Chang Yi-keun, Kim Gi-whan

17. Playing members of the 2016 Ryder Cup teams
18. Winner of the 2016 Asian Tour Order of Merit
19. Winner of the 2016 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Matthew Griffin

20. Winner of the 2016–17 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

Brandon Stone

21. Winner of the 2016 Japan Open
22. Top 2 on the 2016 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List

Yuta Ikeda

23. Top 2, not already exempt, on the 2017 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List through the Japan Golf Tour Championship

Yūsaku Miyazato, Shaun Norris

24. Winner of the 2016 Senior Open Championship

Paul Broadhurst

25. Winner of the 2017 Amateur Championship

Harry Ellis (a)

26. Winner of the 2016 U.S. Amateur

Curtis Luck forfeited his exemption after turning professional in April 2017.

27. Winners of the 2016 and 2017 editions of the European Amateur

Luca Cianchetti (a), Alfie Plant (a)

28. Recipient of the 2016 Mark H. McCormack Medal

Maverick McNealy (a)

Open Qualifying Series

The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) consists of 10 events from the six major tours. Places are available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finish in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions go to players ranked highest according to that week's OWGR.

LocationTournamentDateSpotsTopQualifiers
AustraliaEmirates Australian Open20 Nov310Aaron Baddeley, Ashley Hall, Cameron Smith
SingaporeSMBC Singapore Open22 Jan412Phachara Khongwatmai, Jbe' Kruger, Prayad Marksaeng, Song Young-han
South AfricaJoburg Open26 Feb310Darren Fichardt, Stuart Manley, Paul Waring
JapanMizuno Open28 May412Adam Bland, Michael Hendry, Chan Kim, Kim Kyung-tae
FranceHNA Open de France2 Jul310Alexander Björk, Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Peter Uihlein
United StatesQuicken Loans National2 Jul412Charles Howell III, Kang Sung-hoon, Martin Laird, Kyle Stanley
IrelandDubai Duty Free Irish Open9 Jul310David Drysdale, Ryan Fox, Richie Ramsay
United StatesGreenbrier Classic9 Jul412Jamie Lovemark, Sebastián Muñoz, Xander Schauffele, Robert Streb
ScotlandAberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open16 Jul310Andrew Dodt, Matthieu Pavon, Callum Shinkwin
United StatesJohn Deere Classic16 Jul15Bryson DeChambeau
Final Qualifying

The Final Qualifying events were played on 4 July at five courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England. Three qualifying places were available at each location.

Gailes Links – Ryan McCarthy, Julian Suri, Connor Syme (a)
Hillside – Adam Hodkinson, Nick McCarthy, Haydn McCullen
Notts (Hollinwell) – Laurie Canter, Joe Dean, Mark Foster
Royal Cinque Ports – Austin Connelly, Robert Dinwiddie, Matthew Southgate
Woburn – Shiv Kapur, Ian Poulter, Toby Tree
Alternates

To make up the full field of 156, additional places are allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking at the time that these places are made available by the Championship Committee.

  1. Webb Simpson (ranked 61, week 26)
  2. Scott Piercy (65; declined spot)
  3. Anirban Lahiri (66; replaced Piercy)[11]
  4. Tony Finau (ranked 64, week 27; replaced Ben Curtis)[9]
  5. James Hahn (66; replaced Brandt Snedeker)[10]

Nationalities in the field
North America (54)South America (4)Europe (58)Oceania (13)Asia (18)Africa (9)
 Canada (2) Argentina (1) England (28) Australia (11) China (1) South Africa (9)
 United States (52) Colombia (1) Northern Ireland (2) New Zealand (2) India (2)
 Paraguay (1) Scotland (7) Japan (4)
 Venezuela (1) Wales (1) South Korea (8)
 Ireland (2) Thailand (3)
 Austria (1)
 Belgium (1)
 Denmark (2)
 France (3)
 Germany (1)
 Italy (2)
 Netherlands (1)
 Spain (4)
 Sweden (3)

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 20 July 2017

Three Americans – Brooks Koepka, Matt Kuchar, and Jordan Spieth – shared the lead after the first round on five under par, a shot clear of England's Paul Casey and Charl Schwartzel, with Ian Poulter a further shot back.[12] Reigning champion Henrik Stenson was one under after a 69. Rory McIlroy was five over par after six holes but recovered to finish with a one-over-par 71.[13][14]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
T1Brooks Koepka United States65−5
Matt Kuchar United States
Jordan Spieth United States
T4Paul Casey England66−4
Charl Schwartzel South Africa
T6Richard Bland England67−3
Rafa Cabrera-Bello Spain
Austin Connelly Canada
Charley Hoffman United States
Ian Poulter England
Justin Thomas United States

Second round

Friday, 21 July 2017

In difficult conditions, Jordan Spieth followed his first round 65 with a 69 to lead by two strokes from Matt Kuchar.[15] Only eight players scored under par for their second rounds, Zach Johnson's 66 being the best round of the day. Alfie Plant was the only amateur to make the cut. He eagled the par-five 15th on his way to a 73 and a 36-hole total of 144.[16]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Jordan Spieth United States65-69=134−6
2Matt Kuchar United States65-71=136−4
T3Brooks Koepka United States65-72=137−3
Ian Poulter England67-70=137
5Richie Ramsay Scotland68-70=138−2
T6Richard Bland England67-72=139−1
Austin Connelly Canada67-72=139
Rory McIlroy Northern Ireland71-68=139
Gary Woodland United States70-69=139
T10Kent Bulle United States68-72=140E
Rafa Cabrera-Bello Spain67-73=140
Charley Hoffman United States67-73=140
Russell Henley United States70-70=140
Chan Kim United States72-68=140
Jamie Lovemark United States71-69=140
Joost Luiten Netherlands68-72=140
Hideki Matsuyama Japan68-72=140
Alex Norén Sweden68-72=140
Bubba Watson United States68-72=140

Amateurs: Plant (+4), Syme (+9), Cianchetti (+11), Ellis (+12), McNealy (+12)

Third round

Saturday, 22 July 2017

Jordan Spieth shot a 65 to take a three-stroke lead over Matt Kuchar, who shot a 66. On an easier day of scoring, Branden Grace scored 62, breaking the long-standing men's major championship record of 63.[17] There were also low rounds from Dustin Johnson, with a 64, and Henrik Stenson, with a 65, both getting into a tie for 7th place.[18]

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Jordan Spieth United States65-69-65=199−11
2Matt Kuchar United States65-71-66=202−8
T3Austin Connelly Canada67-72-66=205−5
Brooks Koepka United States65-72-68=205
T5Branden Grace South Africa70-74-62=206−4
Hideki Matsuyama Japan68-72-66=206
T7Rafa Cabrera-Bello Spain67-73-67=207−3
Dustin Johnson United States71-72-64=207
Chan Kim United States72-68-67=207
Henrik Stenson Sweden69-73-65=207

Branden Grace scorecard
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Par444344344443435454
Grace−1−1−1−2−3−3−3−4−5−5−5−5−5−6−6−7−8−8
Birdie

Final round

Sunday, 23 July 2017

Summary

Beginning the round with a three-shot lead, Jordan Spieth bogeyed three of his first four holes to fall into a tie with Matt Kuchar.[19] A birdie at the 5th combined with a bogey by Kuchar at the 6th allowed Spieth to re-open a two-stroke advantage, but a bogey-birdie swing at the 9th evened the score heading to the back-nine. The score remained level until the 13th, when Spieth hit his tee shot well to the right of the fairway. Forced to take an unplayable lie and drop from the practice area, he managed to get up-and-down to save bogey while Kuchar took the lead by making par.[20] At the par-3 14th, however, Spieth nearly holed his tee shot and converted the birdie attempt to tie Kuchar.[21] Then at the par-5 15th, Spieth made a 48-foot (15 m) eagle putt to take the lead once again. With birdies on the next two holes Spieth played 14–17 in five-under to take a two-stroke lead heading to the last. When Kuchar found a greenside bunker and made bogey, Spieth was able to tap in for par and win the championship by three strokes.[22] Li Haotong birdied his last four holes for 63 (−7) and jump into third place at 274 (−6), the best finish for an Asian player at the Open Championship since Lu Liang-Huan in 1971, also at Royal Birkdale.[23] With the victory, Spieth joined Jack Nicklaus as the only golfers to win three legs of the career Grand Slam before the age of 24.[24]

Final leaderboard
Champion
Silver Medal winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

Note: Top 10 and ties qualify for the 2018 Open Championship; top 4 and ties qualify for the 2018 Masters Tournament

PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney ($)
1Jordan Spieth United States65-69-65-69=268−121,845,000
2Matt Kuchar United States65-71-66-69=271−91,067,000
3Li Haotong China69-73-69-63=274−6684,000
T4Rafa Cabrera-Bello Spain67-73-67-68=275−5480,000
Rory McIlroy (c) Northern Ireland71-68-69-67=275
T6Branden Grace South Africa70-74-62-70=276−4281,000
Brooks Koepka United States65-72-68-71=276
Marc Leishman Australia69-76-66-65=276
Alex Norén Sweden68-72-69-67=276
Matthew Southgate England72-72-67-65=276

Source:[25]

Scorecard

Final round

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Par444344344443435454
Spieth−10−10−9−8−9−9−9−9−8−8−8−8−7−8−10−11−12−12
Kuchar−8−9−8−8−8−7−7−7−8−8−8−8−8−8−9−9−10−9
Li+1+1+1+1+1+1+1E−1−1−1−2−2−2−3−4−5−6
Cabrera-Bello−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−4−4−4−3−4−4−4−4−4−5−5
McIlroy−2−2−2−2−2−2−2−2−3−3−4−4−4−4−3−3−5−5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey

Source:[25]

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2017 U.S. Open		 Major Championships Succeeded by
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