2016 Open Championship

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2016 Open Championship
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Tournament information
Dates 14–17 July 2016
Location Ayrshire, Scotland
Course(s) Royal Troon Golf Club
Organized by The R&A
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Statistics
Par 71
Length 7,175 yd (6,561 m)
Field 156 players
Royal Troon Golf Club is located in Scotland
Royal Troon Golf Club
Royal Troon Golf Club
Location in Scotland

The 2016 Open Championship will be the 145th Open Championship, held 14–17 July 2016 at Royal Troon Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland. It will be the 9th Open Championship played at Royal Troon.

Media

The 2016 Open Championship will be the first to be televised domestically by Sky Sports, after it had been televised for free on the BBC through 2015. In the United States, it will be the first Open Championship to be televised by NBC (Golf Channel's parent network), after 55 years of being televised in the U.S. by ESPN/ABC; Golf Channel will furnish the first and second rounds of the tournament, marking the first time that Golf Channel will have coverage of a men's major championship.

Venue

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The 2016 event will be the ninth Open Championship played at the Royal Troon Golf Club. The most recent was in 2004, with Todd Hamilton winning his first Open Championship title and his only major; it was the sixth occasion in a row that an American won the Open Championship at Royal Troon.

Hole Name Yards Par Hole Name Yards Par
1 Seal 370 4 10 Sandhills 438 4
2 Black Rock 391 4 11 The Railway 490 4
3 Gyaws 379 4 12 The Fox 431 4
4 Dunure 560 5 13 Burmah 472 4
5 Greenan 210 3 14 Alton 178 3
6 Turnberry 601 5 15 Crosbie 483 4
7 Tel-el-Kebir 405 4 16 Well 542 5
8 Postage Stamp 123 3 17 Rabbit 222 3
9 The Monk 423 4 18 Craigend 457 4
Out 3,462 36 In 3,713 35
Source:[1] Total 7,175 71

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):[2]

Field

Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.[3] Dates when a qualifying category will be completely determined are indicated in italics.

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 17 July 2016

Mark Calcavecchia, Stewart Cink (2), Darren Clarke (2), Ben Curtis, John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2), Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington (2), Zach Johnson (2,3,4,12,14), Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard, Sandy Lyle, Rory McIlroy (2,4,5,6,10,12), Phil Mickelson (2,4,14), Mark O'Meara, Louis Oosthuizen (2,3,4,5,12,14), Tiger Woods (2)

2. The Open Champions for 2006–2015
3. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2015 Open Championship

Jason Day (4,10,11,12,14), Sergio García (4), Brooks Koepka (4,12), Marc Leishman (4,14), Jordan Niebrugge (a), Justin Rose (4,5,8,12), Adam Scott (4,9,14), Jordan Spieth (4,8,9,12,14), Danny Willett (4,5,9)

4. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2016

An Byeong-hun (5,6), Kiradech Aphibarnrat (5), Daniel Berger (12), Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Paul Casey (12), Kevin Chappell, Matthew Fitzpatrick (5), Rickie Fowler (11,12,14), Jim Furyk (12), Branden Grace (5,14), Emiliano Grillo, Bill Haas (12,14), Charley Hoffman (12), J. B. Holmes (12,14), Billy Horschel, Thongchai Jaidee (5,14), Dustin Johnson (12,14), Kim Kyung-tae (19), Kevin Kisner (12), Søren Kjeldsen (5), Russell Knox, Matt Kuchar (12,14), Danny Lee (12,14), David Lingmerth, Shane Lowry (5), Hideki Matsuyama (12,14), Ryan Moore, Kevin Na (12), Patrick Reed (5,12,14), Charl Schwartzel (5,14), Brandt Snedeker (12), Henrik Stenson (5,12), Andy Sullivan (5), Justin Thomas, Jimmy Walker (12,14), Bubba Watson (9,12,14), Lee Westwood (OQS-Thailand), Bernd Wiesberger (5)

5. First 30 in the Race to Dubai for 2015

Kristoffer Broberg, Victor Dubuisson, Ross Fisher, Tommy Fleetwood, David Howell, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Martin Kaymer (8,11), Anirban Lahiri (14,15), James Morrison, Thorbjørn Olesen, Thomas Pieters, Jaco van Zyl, Marc Warren, Chris Wood (6)

6. The BMW PGA Championship winners for 2014–2016
7. First 5 European Tour members and any European Tour members tying for 5th place, not otherwise exempt, in the top 20 of the Race to Dubai on completion of the 2016 BMW International Open

26 June

8. The U.S. Open Champions for 2012–2016

Webb Simpson, 19 June

9. The Masters Tournament Champions for 2012–2016
10. The PGA Champions for 2011–2015

Keegan Bradley, Jason Dufner

11. The Players Champions for 2014–2016
12. Top 30 players from the final 2015 FedEx Cup points list

Steven Bowditch (14), Harris English, Scott Piercy, Robert Streb

  • Bae Sang-moon (14) was unable to compete due to a military obligation in South Korea.
13. First 5 PGA Tour members and any PGA Tour members tying for 5th place, not exempt in the top 20 of the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list for 2016 on completion of the 2016 Quicken Loans National

26 June

14. Playing members of the 2015 Presidents Cup teams

Chris Kirk

15. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Asian Tour for 2015
16. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the PGA Tour of Australasia for 2015

Nathan Holman

17. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Southern Africa PGA Sunshine Tour for 2015

George Coetzee

18. The Japan Open Champion for 2015

Satoshi Kodaira

19. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt, on the Official Money List of the Japan Golf Tour for 2015

Yūsaku Miyazato

20. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, in a cumulative money list taken from all official 2015 Japan Golf Tour events up to and including the 2016 Japan Golf Tour Championship

5 June

21. The Senior Open Champion for 2015

Marco Dawson

22. The Amateur Champion for 2016

18 June

23. The U.S. Amateur Champion for 2015
24. The European Amateur Champion for 2015

Stefano Mazzoli (a)

25. The Mark H. McCormack Medal winner for 2015

Jon Rahm (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.

Location Tournament Date Spots Top Qualifiers
Australia Emirates Australian Open 29 Nov 3 10 Nick Cullen, Matt Jones, Rod Pampling
Thailand Thailand Golf Championship 13 Dec 4 12 Jamie Donaldson, Phachara Khongwatmai, Clément Sordet, Lee Westwood (4)
Africa Joburg Open 17 Jan 3 10 Zander Lombard, Haydn Porteous, Anthony Wall
Japan Mizuno Open 29 May 4 12 Kodai Ichihara, Shugo Imahira, Lee Sang-hee, Hideto Tanihara
Sweden Nordea Masters 5 Jun 1 5
USA FedEx St. Jude Classic 12 Jun 4 12
USA Quicken Loans National 26 Jun 4 12
France Alstom Open de France 3 Jul 4 12
Scotland Scottish Open 10 Jul 4 12
USA Greenbrier Classic 10 Jul 1 5
Final Qualifying

The Final Qualifying events will be played on 28 June at four courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England. Three qualifying places are available at each location.

Gailes Links
Hillside
Royal Cinque Ports
Woburn
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.

Past champions expected in the field

Player Country Year(s) won
Zach Johnson  United States 2015
Rory McIlroy  Northern Ireland 2014
Phil Mickelson  United States 2013
Ernie Els  South Africa 2002, 2012
Darren Clarke  Northern Ireland 2011
Louis Oosthuizen  South Africa 2010
Stewart Cink  United States 2009
Pádraig Harrington  Ireland 2007, 2008
Tiger Woods  United States 2000, 2005, 2006
Todd Hamilton  United States 2004
Ben Curtis  United States 2003
David Duval  United States 2001
Paul Lawrie  Scotland 1999
Mark O'Meara  United States 1998
Justin Leonard  United States 1997
Tom Lehman  United States 1996
John Daly  United States 1995
Mark Calcavecchia  United States 1989
Sandy Lyle  Scotland 1985

References

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External links

Preceded by Major Championships Succeeded by
2016 PGA Championship

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