Augusta National Golf Club and the R&A announced Monday they will continue pathways into next year\u2019s Masters and Open Championship via select national opens.<\/p>\n
Augusta National added the six national open champions \u2013 Spanish Open, Japan Open, Hong Kong Open, Australian Open, South African Open and Scottish Open, which already offered a spot into the Masters for the winner as a co-sanctioned PGA Tour event \u2013 to its list of Masters invitees this year, a move that aligned the club with the R&A.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Masters Tournament has a longstanding history of assembling an international field, so we embrace this opportunity to highlight the global nature of the game of golf,\u201d Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s announcement reinforces our shared commitment with the R&A to offer pathways for players from around the world to earn their place in the Masters and The Open.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 19-event Open Qualifying Series for next year\u2019s Open at St. Andrews will be announced Tuesday. The R&A began the qualifying series in 2013.<\/p>\n
The Masters normally has fewer than 100 invitees and the smallest field among the majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Augusta National Golf Club and the R&A announced Monday they will continue pathways into next year\u2019s Masters and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-855785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}