A former Amateur Champion and a YouTube star will be among the 12 players competing for the final Royal Birkdale place at the inaugural Last-Chance Qualifier.<\/p>\n
This year, for the first time ever, a dramatic qualification showdown will take place in the week of The Open<\/a>, with one coveted spot at golf\u2019s original championship on offer.<\/p>\n The stroke play event will get under way at 7.30am BST on Monday 13 July, contested over 18 holes on the famous Southport links.<\/p>\n Aldrich Potgieter, who won The Amateur Championship<\/a> as a 17-year-old in 2022 and has since played in The Open twice, Matti Schmid, who finished tied fourth at May’s PGA Championship, and Wesley Bryan, one half of the popular Bryan Bros YouTube channel, are among those competing.<\/p>\n Joe Dean, Adri Arnaus, Andrew Wilson and Angel Hidalgo have all previously played in The Open and are aiming to earn a return to the Championship.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Charles Huntzinger, John Gough and Marcus Helligkilde are each bidding to make their Open debut after narrowly missing out at Final Qualifying<\/a>.<\/p>\n The field also includes two amateurs – Matt Moloney, runner-up at this year\u2019s Amateur Championship<\/a>, and England\u2019s Sam Easterbrook.<\/p>\n The full field is as follows:<\/p>\n \u2022 Aldrich Potgieter<\/p>\n \u2022 Matti Schmid<\/p>\n \u2022 Matt Moloney (a)<\/p>\n \u2022 Joe Dean<\/p>\n \u2022 Sam Easterbrook (a)<\/p>\n \u2022 Adri Arnaus<\/p>\n \u2022 John Gough<\/p>\n \u2022 Angel Hidalgo<\/p>\n \u2022 Charles Huntzinger<\/p>\n \u2022 Marcus Helligkilde<\/p>\n \u2022 Andrew Wilson<\/p>\n \u2022 Wesley Bryan<\/p>\n All players earned their places in the Last-Chance Qualifier after meeting the exemption criteria<\/a> set out by The R&A<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n Last-Chance Qualifier has been introduced as part of a series of enhancements intended to elevate the experience of those attending The Open, with spectators on-site able to follow all the drama as it happens.\n<\/p>\n Live scores and updates will also be available on TheOpen.com throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Amateur Champion and a YouTube star will be among the 12 players competing for the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}