2026 Open Final Qualifying results
If you would rather read about the big names who didn’t make it through, you can do so right here.
For now, though, here are the five players that qualified from each of the four venues…
Burnham & Berrow
Caleb Surratt, who plays for Jon Rahm’s LIV Golf team, Legion XIII, was among the five to get through on the Somerset links.
-10 James Nicholas
-9 Caleb Surratt
-8 Tom Sloman
-8 Alejandro de Castro Piera (a)
-8 Austen Truslow
Dundonald Links
Matthew Baldwin, a DP World Tour veteran who was born a pitch and putt from Royal Birkdale, will tee up in just his third Open in his hometown.
-5 Jack McDonald
-4 Matthew Baldwin
-4 David Howard (a)
-3 Nevill Ruiter (a)
-3 Marcus Plunkett
Royal Cinque Ports
Matthew Southgate, who finished T6 the last time The Open was at Birkdale, was among the five to get through in Kent, as was LIV Golf player Peter Uihlein.
-12 Baard Bjoenevik Skogen
-12 MJ Daffue
-10 Matthew Southgate
-9 Peter Uihlein
-8 Antoine Rozner
West Lancashire
There will be a Tiger at Birkdale after all – but it will be Christensen rather than Woods teeing up in Southport. Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs teammate Josele Ballester and DP World Tour players Samuel Bairstow and Matthew Jordan also came through a star-studded line-up at West Lancs.
-10 Samuel Bairstow
-9 Kazuma Kobori
-9 Josele Ballester
-9 Tiger Christensen
-8 Matthew Jordan
You can see all results on the official Open Championship website – and if it’s the big names who missed out at Final Qualifying you’re after, we’ve got you covered on that one.