{"id":772278,"date":"2026-07-01T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772278\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:22:08","slug":"2026-open-final-qualifying-results-whos-birkdale-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772278\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Open Final Qualifying results: Who&#8217;s Birkdale bound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Open Final Qualifying results<\/p>\n<p>If you would rather read about the big names who didn\u2019t make it through, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/majors\/the-open-championship\/big-names-failed-final-qualifying-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you can do so right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, here are the five players that qualified from each of the four venues\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Burnham &amp; Berrow<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Surratt, who plays for Jon Rahm\u2019s LIV Golf team, Legion XIII, was among the five to get through on the Somerset links.<\/p>\n<p>-10 James Nicholas<\/p>\n<p>-9 Caleb Surratt<\/p>\n<p>-8 Tom Sloman<\/p>\n<p>-8 Alejandro de Castro Piera (a)<\/p>\n<p>-8 Austen Truslow<\/p>\n<p>Dundonald Links<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>-5 Jack McDonald<\/p>\n<p>-4 Matthew Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>-4 David Howard (a)<\/p>\n<p>-3 Nevill Ruiter (a)<\/p>\n<p>-3 Marcus Plunkett<\/p>\n<p>Royal Cinque Ports<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>-12 Baard Bjoenevik Skogen<\/p>\n<p>-12 MJ Daffue<\/p>\n<p>-10 Matthew Southgate<\/p>\n<p>-9 Peter Uihlein<\/p>\n<p>-8 Antoine Rozner<\/p>\n<p>West Lancashire<\/p>\n<p>There will be a Tiger at Birkdale after all \u2013 but it will be Christensen rather than Woods teeing up in Southport. Sergio Garcia\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>-10 Samuel Bairstow<\/p>\n<p>-9 Kazuma Kobori<\/p>\n<p>-9 Josele Ballester<\/p>\n<p>-9 Tiger Christensen<\/p>\n<p>-8 Matthew Jordan<\/p>\n<p>You can see all results on the official Open Championship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/qualification\/final-qualifying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a> \u2013 and if it\u2019s the big names who missed out at Final Qualifying you\u2019re after, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/majors\/the-open-championship\/big-names-in-2026-final-qualifying\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we\u2019ve got you covered on that one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Open Final Qualifying results If you would rather read about the big names who didn\u2019t make it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-772278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}