2014 Open Championship

2014 Open Championship

Tournament information
Dates	17–20 July 2014
Location	Merseyside, England
Course(s)	Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Organized by	The R&A
Tour(s)	European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,312 yd (6,686 m)
Field	156 players, 72 after cut
Cut	146 (+2)
Prize fund	£5.400 million €6.776 million $9.226 million
Winner's share	£975,000 €1,223,450 $1,665,788
Champion
Rory McIlroy
271 (−17)
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Hoylake

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Location in England

Hoylake

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Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside, west of Liverpool, England

Rory McIlroy won his first Open Championship, two strokes ahead of runners-up Rickie Fowler and Sergio García, and became only the sixth to win the championship going wire-to-wire after 72 holes (being the sole leader after each round). It was McIlroy's third major title, having won the U.S. Open in 2011 and the PGA Championship in 2012; he became the first European to win three different majors and joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only three (since the first Masters Tournament in 1934) to win three majors by the age of 25.

The 2014 event was the twelfth Open Championship played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. The most recent was in 2006, with Tiger Woods winning his second consecutive Open Championship title, holding off Chris DiMarco with a two-shot victory. The first open at the venue was in 1897, won by amateur Harold Hilton by a stroke ahead of James Braid.

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1947):

• 2006: 7,258 yards (6,637 m), par 72
• 1967: 6,995 yards (6,396 m), par 72
• 1956: 6,960 yards (6,364 m), par 71
• 1947: 6,978 yards (6,381 m), par 68

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 20 July 2014

• Eligible but did not enter: Ian Baker-Finch, Greg Norman, Nick Price
• Tom Lehman withdrew for family reasons.
• Mark O'Meara withdrew with an elbow injury.
• Mark Calcavecchia (3) withdrew.

2. The Open Champions for 2004–2013

3. The Open Champions finishing in the first 10 and tying for 10th place in The Open Championship 2009–2013

• Tom Watson

4. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2013 Open Championship

5. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2014

• Steve Stricker (13,15) chose not to play.

6. First 30 in the Race to Dubai for 2013

7. The BMW PGA Championship winners for 2012–2014

8. 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 2014 BMW International Open

9. The U.S. Open Champions for 2010–2014

10. The Masters Tournament Champions for 2010–2014

11. The PGA Champions for 2009–2013

• Yang Yong-eun

12. The Players Champions for 2012–2014

13. The leading 30 qualifiers for the 2013 Tour Championship

14. 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 2014 on completion of the 2014 Travelers Championship

15. Playing members of the 2013 Presidents Cup teams

16. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Asian Tour for 2013

• Kiradech Aphibarnrat

17. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the PGA Tour of Australasia for 2013

18. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Southern Africa PGA Sunshine Tour for 2013

• Dawie van der Walt

19. The Japan Open Champion for 2013

• Masanori Kobayashi

20. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt, on the Official Money List of the Japan Golf Tour for 2013

• Kim Hyung-sung

21. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, in a cumulative money list taken from all official 2014 Japan Golf Tour events up to and including the 2014 Japan Golf Tour Championship.

22. The Senior Open Champion for 2013

• Mark Wiebe

23. The Amateur Champion for 2014

• Bradley Neil (a)

24. The U.S. Amateur Champion for 2013

• Matt Fitzpatrick (26) forfeited his exemption by turning professional after the U.S. Open.

25. The European Amateur Champion for 2013

• Ashley Chesters (a)

26. The Mark H. McCormack Medal winner for 2013

Open Qualifying Series

Major changes were made to qualification routes. The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) was introduced, consisting of 10 events from the six major tours. This series largely replaced International Final Qualifying. Places were available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finished in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions went to players according to their position in that week's Official World Golf Ranking.

Final Qualifying

Unlike in previous years, when final qualifying had been held on courses close to the Open Championship venue, events were played at four courses covering Scotland and the North, Central and South regions of England.

Alternates

To make up the full field of 156, additional places were allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking at the time that these places were made available by the Championship Committee. Any places made available after the week 27 rankings issued on 6 July 2014 used these week 27 rankings.

From the Week 26 Official World Golf Ranking:

• Charles Howell III (73) withdrew for family reasons.

From the Week 27 Official World Golf Ranking:

First round

Thursday, 17 July 2014

Rory McIlroy shot a bogey-free round of 66 (−6) to take a one-stroke lead over Matteo Manassero. World number one Adam Scott, Sergio García, brothers Edoardo and Francesco Molinari, Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka and Jim Furyk were another shot further back at 68 (−4). Three-time champion Tiger Woods, playing in his first major championship of the year following back surgery, rebounded from bogeys on his first two holes to post a round of 69 (−3).

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	66	−6
2	Matteo Manassero	67	−5
T3	Jim Furyk	68	−4
	Sergio García
	Brooks Koepka
	Shane Lowry
	Edoardo Molinari
	Francesco Molinari
	Adam Scott
T10	Rickie Fowler	69	−3
	Robert Karlsson
	Marc Leishman
	Hideki Matsuyama
	Koumei Oda
	Yoshinobu Tsukada
	Jimmy Walker
	Boo Weekley
	Tiger Woods

Second round

Friday, 18 July 2014

Rory McIlroy shot a second consecutive round of 66 (−6) to post a 132 total (−12) and a four-shot lead after 36 holes. Dustin Johnson had the lowest round of the tournament with a 65 (−7) to move into second place.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	66-66=132	−12
2	Dustin Johnson	71-65=136	−8
T3	Rickie Fowler	69-69=138	−6
	Sergio García	68-70=138
	Francesco Molinari	68-70=138
	Ryan Moore	70-68=138
	Louis Oosthuizen	70-68=138
	Charl Schwartzel	71-67=138
T9	George Coetzee	70-69=139	−5
	Jim Furyk	68-71=139
	Marc Warren	71-68=139

Amateurs: Chesters (+3), Dunne (+4), Pan (+4), Neil (+11).

Third round

Saturday, 19 July 2014

In anticipation of an approaching severe storm with lightning Saturday afternoon, the R&A announced Friday that the third round would be played off both the 1st and 10th tees in threesomes. Normal play is from only the first tee in pairs. This was the first time that play went off both tees at The Open.

Rickie Fowler, beginning the round six shots behind leader Rory McIlroy, recorded birdies on 7 of his first 12 holes to pull into a tie for the lead at 12-under. Still tied, Fowler made bogey on the 14th, while McIlroy made a 35-foot (11 m) putt for birdie and a two-shot swing which gave him the lead again. At the par-5 16th, Fowler made another bogey to drop into a tie for second with playing partner Sergio García. McIlroy then eagled the hole to take a 5-shot lead after the three-shot swing with Fowler. All three players bogeyed the 17th. At the par-5 18th, García made par and Fowler made birdie, but McIlroy hit his approach to 6 feet (1.8 m) and made another eagle, pushing his lead to six shots after 54 holes. McIlroy was the only person to eagle the 16th and 18th holes in the third round. Going into the closing round, McIlroy was within three shots of both the Open scoring record to par and the record score to par for all major championships, both of which are −19. The severe storms expected never materialized, although heavy showers preceded and followed third round play.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	66-66-68=200	−16
2	Rickie Fowler	69-69-68=206	−10
T3	Sergio García	68-70-69=207	−9
	Dustin Johnson	71-65-71=207
5	Victor Dubuisson	74-66-68=208	−8
6	Edoardo Molinari	68-73-68=209	−7
T7	Jim Furyk	68-71-71=210	−6
	Robert Karlsson	69-71-70=210
	Matteo Manassero	67-75-68=210
	Charl Schwartzel	71-67-72=210
	Adam Scott	68-73-69=210

Final round

Sunday, 20 July 2014

Sergio García applied pressure on the leader Rory McIlroy early, making birdie at three of the first five holes. McIlroy responded with a birdie at the 1st hole, while playing partner Rickie Fowler missed a number of early opportunities for birdie. McIlroy made bogey at both the 5th and the 6th to drop his lead to 3 shots, and came back with a birdie at the 9th. García made an eagle at the 10th, besting McIlroy and Fowler who both made birdie. McIlroy made bogey at 13 to fall to −16 and his lead fell to two shots over García. However, García missed the green at the 15th in a greenside bunker and failed to escape the bunker on his first attempt. He made bogey and dropped into a tie with Fowler at −13. All three players made birdie at 16, and McIlroy missed the green at the 17th. His chip shot rolled to within a foot from the cup, securing par. Fowler and García both made birdie at the 18th. McIlroy made par for a two-shot victory. Jim Furyk finished fourth, as he did in 2006, also at Hoylake.

The low round of the day and the championship was 65 (−7), recorded by four players in placid conditions on Sunday.

Final leaderboard

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	Rory McIlroy	66-66-68-71=271	−17	975,000
T2	Rickie Fowler	69-69-68-67=273	−15	460,000
	Sergio García	68-70-69-66=273
4	Jim Furyk	68-71-71-65=275	−13	280,000
T5	Marc Leishman	69-72-70-65=276	−12	210,500
	Adam Scott	68-73-69-66=276
T7	Edoardo Molinari	68-73-68-68=277	−11	154,250
	Charl Schwartzel	71-67-72-67=277
T9	Victor Dubuisson	74-66-68-70=278	−10	112,666
	Shane Lowry	68-75-70-65=278
	Graeme McDowell	74-69-68-67=278

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
T12	Dustin Johnson	71-65-71-72=279	−9	84,667
	Robert Karlsson	69-71-70-69=279
	Ryan Moore	70-68-73-68=279
T15	Stephen Gallacher	70-72-70-68=280	−8	68,667
	David Howell	72-70-70-68=280
	Francesco Molinari	68-70-75-67=280
18	George Coetzee	70-69-74-68=281	−7	61,500
T19	Keegan Bradley	73-71-69-69=282	−6	55,000
	Ángel Cabrera	76-69-70-67=282
	Chris Kirk	71-74-68-69=282
	Matteo Manassero	67-75-68-72=282
T23	Phil Mickelson (c)	74-70-71-68=283	−5	46,167
	Justin Rose	72-70-69-72=283
	Chris Wood	75-70-73-65=283
T26	An Byeong-hun	72-71-69-72=284	−4	38,250
	Thomas Bjørn	70-71-76-67=284
	Darren Clarke (c)	72-72-67-73=284
	Brian Harman	72-73-68-71=284
	Ben Martin	71-73-70-70=284
	Jimmy Walker	69-71-71-73=284
T32	Kristoffer Broberg	70-73-70-72=285	−3	31,000
	David Hearn	70-73-71-71=285
	Hunter Mahan	71-73-72-69=285
	D. A. Points	75-69-72-69=285
T36	Branden Grace	71-72-69-74=286	−2	27,083
	Louis Oosthuizen (c)	70-68-76-72=286
	Jordan Spieth	71-75-67-73=286
T39	Thongchai Jaidee	72-72-72-71=287	−1	21,219
	Hideki Matsuyama	69-74-73-71=287
	Koumei Oda	69-77-74-67=287
	Kevin Stadler	73-72-71-71=287
	Henrik Stenson	72-73-73-69=287
	Brendon Todd	73-73-74-67=287
	Marc Warren	71-68-72-76=287
	Gary Woodland	75-69-72-71=287
T47	Grégory Bourdy	75-69-74-70=288	E	16,013
	Paul Casey	74-71-73-70=288
	Stewart Cink (c)	71-75-73-69=288
	Zach Johnson	71-75-71-71=288
T51	Jason Dufner	70-74-74-71=289	+1	14,650
	Bill Haas	70-72-73-74=289
	Tom Watson (c)	73-73-75-68=289
T54	Matt Jones	71-74-72-73=290	+2	13,925
	Matt Kuchar	73-71-74-72=290
	Kevin Na	76-70-70-74=290
	Kevin Streelman	72-74-69-75=290
T58	Jason Day	73-73-74-71=291	+3	13,350
	Jamie McLeary	73-73-75-70=291
	Ryan Palmer	74-71-76-70=291
	Chris Rodgers	73-71-73-74=291
	John Senden	71-74-75-71=291
	Brandt Snedeker	74-72-71-74=291
T64	Luke Donald	73-73-71-75=292	+4	12,900
	Billy Hurley III	73-72-76-71=292
	Thorbjørn Olesen	75-71-73-73=292
T67	Charley Hoffman	74-72-76-71=293	+5	12,650
	Brooks Koepka	68-77-74-74=293
69	Tiger Woods (c)	69-77-73-75=294	+6	12,500
70	Martin Kaymer	73-72-72-79=296	+8	12,400
71	Matt Every	75-71-73-78=297	+9	12,300
72	Rhein Gibson	72-74-74-78=298	+10	12,200
CUT	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	72-75=147	+3
	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	70-77=147
	Ashley Chesters (a)	70-77=147
	K. J. Choi	72-75=147
	Graham DeLaet	71-76=147
	Oliver Fisher	72-75=147
	Oscar Florén	73-74=147
	Hiroshi Iwata	70-77=147
	Justin Leonard (c)	74-73=147
	Paul McKechnie	76-71=147
	Ian Poulter	73-74=147
	Shawn Stefani	73-74=147
	Yoshinobu Tsukada	69-78=147
	Dawie van der Walt	71-76=147
	Nick Watney	72-75=147
	Lee Westwood	71-76=147
	Erik Compton	71-77=148	+4
	Ben Curtis (c)	74-74=148
	John Daly (c)	77-71=148
	Brendon de Jonge	78-70=148
	Paul Dunne (a)	75-73=148
	Harris English	72-76=148
	Ross Fisher	74-74=148
	Billy Horschel	73-75=148
	Mikko Ilonen	70-78=148
	Ryo Ishikawa	74-74=148
	Freddie Jacobson	70-78=148
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	75-73=148
	Kim Hyung-sung	72-76=148
	Kim Hyung-tae	75-73=148
	Pan Cheng-tsung (a)	74-74=148
	Brett Rumford	75-73=148
	John Singleton	78-70=148
	Cameron Tringale	74-74=148
	Bubba Watson	76-72=148
	Boo Weekley	69-79=148
	Danny Willett	74-74=148
	Rhys Enoch	73-76=149	+5
	George McNeill	76-73=149
	Yūsaku Miyazato	72-77=149
	Juvic Pagunsan	76-73=149
	Patrick Reed	78-71=149
	Scott Stallings	75-74=149
	Matthew Baldwin	76-74=150	+6
	Jonas Blixt	75-75=150
	Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño	74-76=150
	Tommy Fleetwood	74-76=150
	Anirban Lahiri	75-75=150
	Jamie Donaldson	79-72=151	+7
	Chesson Hadley	79-72=151
	Todd Hamilton (c)	77-74=151
	J. B. Holmes	74-77=151
	Masanori Kobayashi	78-73=151
	Victor Riu	74-77=151
	Justin Walters	77-74=151
	Bernd Wiesberger	72-79=151
	Wu Ashun	75-76=151
	Yang Yong-eun	75-76=151
	David Duval (c)	73-79=152	+8
	Ernie Els (c)	79-73=152
	Pádraig Harrington (c)	74-78=152
	Tyrrell Hatton	75-77=152
	Pablo Larrazábal	75-77=152
	Richard Sterne	73-79=152
Nick Faldo (c)	76-77=153	+9
Tomohiro Kondo	76-77=153
Webb Simpson	76-77=153
Scott Jamieson	77-77=154	+10
Paul Lawrie (c)	79-75=154
Brendan Steele	74-80=154
Roberto Castro	74-81=155	+11
Chris Hanson	81-74=155
Russell Henley	75-80=155
Jin Jeong	77-78=155
Bradley Neil (a)	79-76=155
Matthew Southgate	80-76=156	+12
Chris Stroud	79-77=156
Peter Uihlein	77-79=156
Jang Dong-kyu	78-79=157	+13
Joost Luiten	81-76=157
Mark Wiebe	79-78=157
Sandy Lyle (c)	82-84=166	+22
Bryden Macpherson	90-80=170	+26
WD	Michael Hoey	75	+3

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Scorecard

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	3	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	5
McIlroy	−17	−17	−17	−17	−16	−15	−15	−15	−16	−17	−17	−17	−16	−16	−16	−17	−17	−17
Fowler	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−14	−14	−15
García	−10	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−13	−14	−14	−15
Furyk	−6	−6	−6	−6	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−13
Leishman	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−8	−8	−9	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−12
Scott	−6	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−7	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−12

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

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