{"id":900389,"date":"2026-09-21T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900389\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:46:13","slug":"australian-open-winner-will-again-book-masters-spot-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900389\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open winner will again book Masters spot \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winner of the Australian Open will earn a place in the Masters field after the Augusta tournament confirmed they will again award invitations to winners of six select national opens.<\/p>\n

The deal is part of an alignment with The Open Championship\u2019s Qualifying Series that also means a spot in the British Open for December\u2019s Australian champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Masters Tournament has a longstanding history of assembling an international field, so we embrace this opportunity to \u200chighlight the global nature of the game of golf,\u201d Masters chairman Fred Ridley said. \u201cToday\u2019s announcement reinforces our shared commitment with The R&A to offer pathways for \u200cplayers from around the world to earn their place in the Masters and The Open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Players who qualified for this year\u2019s Masters through the criteria include Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Australian Open), Chris Gotterup (Scottish Open), Marco Penge (Spanish Open), Naoyuki Kataoka (Japan Open), Tom McKibbin (Hong Kong Open) and Casey Jarvis (South African Open).<\/p>\n

\"AugustaA place at Augusta Masters is guaranteed for the winner of the Australian Open. (AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Winners of each of those six national opens will again earn invitations to the Masters. Kataoka entered the Japan Open ranked 500th in the world before earning his first invitation to play at \u200cAugusta.<\/p>\n

Players can earn \u200cspots in The Open \u2060at St Andrews next year through the 19 events in 15 countries that are included in The Open \u200bQualifying Series.<\/p>\n

The Australian Open is at Royal Melbourne GC from December 4-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winner of the Australian Open will earn a place in the Masters field after the Augusta tournament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,405163,85,2614],"class_list":["post-900389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-overseas-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}