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By\u00a0The Associated Press\n <\/p>\n
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) \u2014 Players who are exempt or have qualified for the 154th British Open at Royal Birkdale on July 16-19. Players listed only in the first category for which they are eligible (a-amateur):<\/p>\n
British Open champions under 60 on July 20<\/p>\n
Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Brian Harman, Cameron Smith, Collin Morikawa, Shane Lowry, Francesco Molinari, Jordan Spieth, Henrik Stenson, Rory McIlroy, Darren Clarke, Louis Oosthuizen, Stewart Cink, Padraig Harrington, David Duval.<\/p>\n
Top 10 and ties from the 2025 British Open<\/p>\n
Harris English, Chris Gotterup, Wyndham Clark, Matt Fitzpatrick, Haotong Li, Robert MacIntyre, Corey Conners, Russell Henley, Bryson DeChambeau.<\/p>\n
Masters champion (5-year exemption)<\/p>\n
PGA champions (5-year exemption)<\/p>\n
Aaron Rai, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas.<\/p>\n
U.S. Open champion (5-year exemption)<\/p>\n
The Players champions (3-year exemption)<\/p>\n
BMW PGA champions (3-year exemption)<\/p>\n
Top 25 in the 2025 Race to Dubai<\/p>\n
Tyrrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood, Laurie Canter, Kristoffer Reitan, Adrien Saddier, John Parry, Aaron Rai, Keita Nakajima, Jordan Smith, Daniel Brown, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Daniel Hiller, Martin Couvra, Angel Ayora, Nicolai Hojgaard, Justin Rose, Joakim Lagergren, Rasmus Hojgaard.<\/p>\n
Top 30 from the 2025 FedEx Cup<\/p>\n
Patrick Cantlay, Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns, Ben Griffin, Viktor Hovland, Akshay Bhatia, Harry Hall, Nick Taylor, Ludvig Aberg, Maverick McNealy, Andrew Novak, Jacob Bridgeman, Sungjae Im, Hideki Matsuyama, Sepp Straka.<\/p>\n
Top 50 from the May 25 world ranking<\/p>\n
Patrick Reed, Kurt Kitayama, Min Woo Lee, Ryan Gerard, Rickie Fowler, Jake Knapp, Jason Day, Alex Smalley, Gary Woodland, Michael Kim, Matt McCarty.<\/p>\n
Top 5 from the leading 20 players in the FedEx Cup through the Travelers Championship<\/p>\n
Top 5 from the leading 20 players in the Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open<\/p>\n
Hennie Du Plessis, Bernd Wiesberger, Jayden Schaper, Andy Sullivan, Dan Bradbury.<\/p>\n
Leading player from LIV Golf through LIV Golf-Andalucia<\/p>\n
Top 5 players from the OWGR Federation ranking on May 23, 2026<\/p>\n
Travis Smyth, Kazuki Higa, Kota Kaneko, Scott Vincent.<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific Amateur champion<\/p>\n
Latin America Amateur champion<\/p>\n
European Amateur champion<\/p>\n
Open Amateur Series winner<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Spanish Open<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Japan Open<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Hong Kong Open<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Australian Open<\/p>\n
Michael Hollick, Adam Scott, Si Woo Kim.<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-New Zealand Open<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-South African Open<\/p>\n
Casey Jarvis, Francesco Laporta, Frederic Lacroix.<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Argentina Open<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Arnold Palmer Invitational<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Singapore Open<\/p>\n
Jeongwoo Ham, Cameron John.<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Korea Open<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Mizuno Open<\/p>\n
Shaun Norris, Ryutaro Nagano, Ren Yonezawa.<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Memorial<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Canadian Open<\/p>\n
Bud Cauley, Jesper Svensson, Jackson Suber.<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Italian Open<\/p>\n
Open Qualifying Series-Scottish Open<\/p>\n
To be determined July 12.<\/p>\n
James Nicholas, Caleb Surratt, Austen Truslow, Tom Sloman, a-Alejandro de Castro Piera, Jack McDonald, Matthew Baldwin, a-David Howard, Marcus Plunkett, a-Nevill Ruiter, Baard Skogen, M.J. Daffue, Matthew Southgate, Peter Uihlein, Antoine Rozner, Sam Bairstow, Kazuma Kobori, Tiger Christensen, Josele Ballester, Matthew Jordan.<\/p>\n
To be determined July 13.<\/p>\n
To fill the field from the July 5, 2026 world ranking<\/p>\n
Sam Stevens, Nico Echavarria, Pierceson Coody, Ryo Hisatsune, Michael Brennan, David Puig, Tom Kim, Eric Cole, Keith Mitchell, Matt Wallace, Sami Valimaki, Max Homa, Thomas Detry, Max Greyserman, Sahith Theegala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"flag wire: true flag sponsored: false article_type: pubinfo.section: cms.site.custom.site_domain : thestar.com sWebsitePrimaryPublication : publications\/toronto_star bHasMigratedAvatar : false firstAuthor.avatar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[5789,49,48,588,9469,55403,622,3007,127417,82],"class_list":["post-784514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-england","tag-field","tag-glf","tag-golf","tag-open","tag-southport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784514","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=784514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}