2014 Open Championship


The 2014 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 143rd Open Championship, held from 17–20 July at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Merseyside, 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. 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 to win three majors by the age of 25.

Venue

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 :
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

Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke, Ben Curtis, John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els, Nick Faldo, Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington, Paul Lawrie, Justin Leonard, Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson, Louis Oosthuizen, Tiger Woods
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

Zach Johnson, Hunter Mahan, Hideki Matsuyama, Francesco Molinari, Ian Poulter, Adam Scott, Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood
5. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking for Week 21, 2014

Thomas Bjørn, Jonas Blixt, Keegan Bradley, Jason Day, Graham DeLaet, Luke Donald, Jamie Donaldson, Victor Dubuisson, Jason Dufner, Harris English, Matt Every, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Stephen Gallacher, Sergio García, Bill Haas, Russell Henley, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Dustin Johnson, Matt Jones, Martin Kaymer, Chris Kirk, Matt Kuchar, Joost Luiten, Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy, Ryan Moore, Ryan Palmer, Patrick Reed, Justin Rose, Charl Schwartzel, John Senden, Webb Simpson, Brandt Snedeker, Jordan Spieth, Jimmy Walker, Bubba Watson, Gary Woodland
6. First 30 in the Race to Dubai for 2013

Grégory Bourdy, Paul Casey, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Tommy Fleetwood, Branden Grace, David Howell, Mikko Ilonen, Thongchai Jaidee, Matteo Manassero, Brett Rumford, Richard Sterne, Peter Uihlein, Bernd Wiesberger, Chris Wood
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

Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Pablo Larrazábal, Shane Lowry
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

Roberto Castro, Brendon de Jonge, Billy Horschel, D. A. Points, Kevin Streelman, Nick Watney, Boo Weekley
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

Kevin Na, Brendon Todd
15. Playing members of the 2013 Presidents Cup teams

Ángel Cabrera, Marc Leishman
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.

Yūsaku Miyazato, Koumei Oda
22. The Senior Open Champion for 2013

Mark Wiebe
23. The Amateur Champion for 2014

Bradley Neil
24. The U.S. Amateur Champion for 2013
25. The European Amateur Champion for 2013

Ashley Chesters
26. The Mark H. McCormack Medal winner for 2013
Open Qualifying Series
Major changes were made to the qualification categories. There is now an Open Qualifying Series which consists of 10 events from the six major tours. This series largely replaces International Final Qualifying. Places are available to the leading players who finish in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions go to players highest according to that week's OWGR.
LocationTournamentDateSpotsTopQualifiers
AustraliaEmirates Australian Open1 Dec310Rhein Gibson, Bryden Macpherson, John Senden
AfricaJoburg Open9 Feb310George Coetzee, Jin Jeong, Justin Walters
Thailand36-hole qualifier7 Mar4n/aHiroshi Iwata, Pan Cheng-tsung, Yoshinobu Tsukada, Wu Ashun
JapanMizuno Open1 Jun412Jang Dong-kyu, Kim Hyung-tae, Tomohiro Kondo, Juvic Pagunsan
IrelandThe Irish Open22 Jun310Matthew Baldwin, Edoardo Molinari, Danny Willett
USAQuicken Loans National29 Jun412Charley Hoffman, Ben Martin, Brendan Steele, Shawn Stefani
FranceAlstom Open de France6 Jul310Michael Hoey, Robert Karlsson, Victor Riu
USAGreenbrier Classic6 Jul412Billy Hurley III, George McNeill, Chris Stroud, Cameron Tringale
ScotlandScottish Open13 Jul310Kristoffer Broberg, Tyrrell Hatton, Scott Jamieson
USAJohn Deere Classic13 Jul15Brian Harman

Final Qualifying
Unlike in previous years, the Final Qualifying events were played at four courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England and not at four courses near the Open Championship venue.
McKechnie and Singleton had earlier played in Regional Qualifying, at Bruntsfield Links and Mere, respectively.
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. Ten places were made available on 2 July and so ten players were added based on the week 26 rankings.
  1. Kevin Stadler
  2. J. B. Holmes
  3. K. J. Choi
  4. Erik Compton
  5. Charles Howell III – withdrew for family reasons''
  6. Brooks Koepka
  7. Chesson Hadley
  8. Fredrik Jacobson
  9. Anirban Lahiri
  10. Scott Stallings
  11. Thorbjørn Olesen – replaced Charles Howell III
  12. Ryo Ishikawa – replaced Steve Stricker
  13. Ross Fisher – replaced Mark O'Meara
  14. David Hearn – replaced Mark Calcavecchia

    Nationalities in the field

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Missed the cut

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Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 17 July 2014
Rory McIlroy shot a bogey-free round of 66 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. 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.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Rory McIlroy66−6
2Matteo Manassero67−5
T3Jim Furyk68−4
T3Sergio García68−4
T3Brooks Koepka68−4
T3Shane Lowry68−4
T3Edoardo Molinari68−4
T3Francesco Molinari68−4
T3Adam Scott68−4
T10Rickie Fowler69−3
T10Robert Karlsson69−3
T10Marc Leishman69−3
T10Hideki Matsuyama69−3
T10Koumei Oda69−3
T10Yoshinobu Tsukada69−3
T10Jimmy Walker69−3
T10Boo Weekley69−3
T10Tiger Woods69−3

Second round

Friday, 18 July 2014
Rory McIlroy shot a second consecutive round of 66 to post a 132 total and a four-shot lead after 36 holes. Dustin Johnson had the lowest round of the tournament with a 65 to move into second place.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Rory McIlroy66-66=132−12
2Dustin Johnson71-65=136−8
T3Rickie Fowler69-69=138−6
T3Sergio García68-70=138−6
T3Francesco Molinari68-70=138−6
T3Ryan Moore70-68=138−6
T3Louis Oosthuizen70-68=138−6
T3Charl Schwartzel71-67=138−6
T9George Coetzee70-69=139−5
T9Jim Furyk68-71=139−5
T9Marc Warren71-68=139−5

Amateurs: Chesters, Dunne, Pan, Neil.

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 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 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.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Rory McIlroy66-66-68=200−16
2Rickie Fowler69-69-68=206−10
T3Sergio García68-70-69=207−9
T3Dustin Johnson71-65-71=207−9
5Victor Dubuisson74-66-68=208−8
6Edoardo Molinari68-73-68=209−7
T7Jim Furyk68-71-71=210−6
T7Robert Karlsson69-71-70=210−6
T7Matteo Manassero67-75-68=210−6
T7Charl Schwartzel71-67-72=210−6
T7Adam Scott68-73-69=210−6

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, recorded by four players in placid conditions on Sunday.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Rory McIlroy66-66-68-71=271−17975,000
T2Rickie Fowler69-69-68-67=273−15460,000
T2Sergio García68-70-69-66=273−15460,000
4Jim Furyk68-71-71-65=275−13280,000
T5Marc Leishman69-72-70-65=276−12210,500
T5Adam Scott68-73-69-66=276−12210,500
T7Edoardo Molinari68-73-68-68=277−11154,250
T7Charl Schwartzel71-67-72-67=277−11154,250
T9Victor Dubuisson74-66-68-70=278−10112,666
T9Shane Lowry68-75-70-65=278−10112,666
T9Graeme McDowell74-69-68-67=278−10112,666

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Scorecard

Final round
Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par444453443544343545
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
EagleBirdieBogeyDouble bogey

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