{"id":685108,"date":"2026-07-10T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685108\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:32:10","slug":"last-chance-qualifier-the-154th-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685108\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-Chance Qualifier | The 154th Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        The field<\/p>\n<p>A total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/latest\/last-chance-qualifier-players-wesley-bryan-aldrich-potgieter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12 players<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 including a\u00a0former Amateur Champion and a YouTube star \u2013 will be  competing for the final Royal Birkdale place at the inaugural Last-Chance Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>All players competing earned their places  after meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theopen.com\/latest\/last-chance-qualifier-criteria-royal-birkdale-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the exemption criteria<\/a> set out by The R&amp;A in December.<\/p>\n<p>Aldrich Potgieter, who claimed The Amateur Championship as a 17-year-old in 2022, and Wesley Bryan, one half of the popular Bryan Bros YouTube channel, are among those teeing it up on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The full field is as follows: Aldrich Potgieter, Matti Schmid, Matt Moloney (a), Joe Dean, Sam Easterbrook (a), Adri Arnaus, John Gough, Angel Hidalgo, Charles Huntzinger, Andrew Wilson, Wesley Bryan, Frazer Jones (a).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The field A total of 12 players\u00a0\u2013 including a\u00a0former Amateur Champion and a YouTube star \u2013 will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685108","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\/685108","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=685108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}