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The 2024 British Open field is filling up. See who’s set for Royal Troon

The 152nd Open Championship is right around the corner.

The 152nd Open Championship is right around the corner and the 156-man field is still filling up with just a couple weeks left.

There was a final day of qualifying on Tuesday, July 2, with 288 golfers competing in a 36-hole final at one of four venues. The R&A website reported that there will be “a minimum of four qualifying places available at each venue”. With all four sites completed, there are now just nine open spots to be filled before they tee it up at Royal Troon for the first round on July 18.

There are also a couple of events on the PGA Tour and DP World Tour that can provide a pathway.

With that, here’s the full list of 147 golfers currently in the field (as of 4:13 p.m. on July 2).

Players in the 152nd Open Championship

Ludvig Aberg

Byeong Hun An

Abraham Ancer

Mason Andersen

Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Akshay Bhatia

Alexander Bjork

Denwit Boriboonsub

Dan Bradbury

Keegan Bradley

Daniel Brown

Dean Burmester

Sam Burns

Jorge Campillo

Patrick Cantlay

John Catlin

Alex Cejka

Stewart Cink

Wyndham Clark

Darren Clarke

Dominic Clemons (a)

Eric Cole

Corey Conners

Sean Crocker

John Daly

Jason Day

Santiago de la Fuente (a)

Joe Dean

Bryson DeChambeau

Matthew Dodd-Berry (a)

David Duval

Austin Eckroat

Ernie Els

Harris English

Jaime Montojo Fernandez (a)

Darren Fichardt

Tony Finau

Matt Fitzpatrick

Tommy Fleetwood

Rickie Fowler

Ryan Fox

Lucas Glover

Ben Griffin

Emiliano Grillo

Adam Hadwin

Todd Hamilton

Brian Harman

Padraig Harrington

Tyrrell Hatton

Michael Hendry

Russell Henley

Angel Hidalgo

Daniel Hillier

Ryo Hisatsune

Tom Hoge

Nicolai Hojgaard

Rasmus Hojgaard

Max Homa

Billy Horschel

Sam Horsfield

Rikuya Hoshino

Viktor Hovland

Mackenzie Hughes

Sam Hutsby

Sungjae Im

Aguri Iwasaki

Stephan Jaeger

Dustin Johnson

Zach Johnson

Matthew Jordan

Masahiro Kawamura

Yuto Katsuragawa

Tom Kim

Si Woo Kim

Minkyu Kim

Ryosuke Kinoshita

Chris Kirk

Kurt Kitayama

Kazuma Kobori

Brooks Koepka

Gun-Taek Koh

Romain Langasque

Thriston Lawrence

Min Woo Lee

Justin Leonard

Charlie Lindh

Shane Lowry

Joost Luiten

Robert MacIntyre

Luis Masaveu (a)

Hideki Matsuyama

Denny McCarthy

Jack McDonald

Rory McIlroy

Tom McKibbin

Maverick McNealy

Adrian Meronk

Phil Mickelson

Guido Migliozzi

Francesco Molinari

Taylor Moore

Collin Morikawa

Keita Nakajima

Joaquin Niemann

Liam Nolan (a)

Vincent Norrman

Andy Ogletree

Thorbjorn Olesen

Jacob Skov Olesen (a)

Louis Oosthuizen

Yannik Paul

Matthieu Pavon

Victor Perez

.J.T. Poston

David Puig

Jon Rahm

Justin Rose

Gordon Sargent (a)

Xander Schauffele

Scottie Scheffler

Adam Schenk

Adam Scott

Shubhankar Sharma

Marcel Siem

Jordan Smith

Cameron Smith

Elvis Smylie

Sebastian Soderberg

Younghan Song

Matthew Southgate

Jordan Spieth

Henrik Stenson

Sepp Straka

Jasper Stubbs (a)

Nick Taylor

Sahith Theegala

Justin Thomas

Brendon Todd

Sami Valimaki

Altin van der Merwe (a)

Ryan Van Velzen

Matt Wallace

Jeung-Hun Wang

Gary Woodland

Tiger Woods

Cameron Young

Will Zalatoris

Qualified but not playing

Ben Curtis and Paul Lawrie

Why did Sergio Garcia snap back about a slow-play warning (and why he might have been right)

Garcia can be heard snapping back at the officials by saying, “You’re always right, we’re always wrong.”

After missing last year’s Open Championships, Sergio Garcia is attempting to get into this year’s event through local qualifying at West Lancashire Golf Club.

Since 1998, Garcia has made 24 starts at the Open, missing just four cuts and totaling 12 top-20 finishes, 10 of which were top 10s. His career-best finish came at Carnoustie in 2007 where he earned the silver medal. He finished T-68 in his most recent appearance, during the 2022 Open Championship at St. Andrews.

But on Tuesday, Garcia’s group was flagged by officials with a slow-play warning.

Garcia, through a Tweet from Bunkered’s Ben Parsons, can be heard snapping back at the officials by saying, “You’re always right, we’re always wrong.”

To be fair, Garcia’s complaint was that his group repeatedly had to wait because officials were having an issue clearing people out of the way, and his contention appears true by various images and videos.

Also, his group was one of 10 to be put on the clock, according to Parsons.

Garcia had mentioned before his round that playing in qualifiers offers a “unique perspective,” and added that it “drives you to give even more when you qualify.”

Of course, Garcia has had issues with officials before, including one at the 2022 Wells Fargo Championship, when Garcia blew his tee shot way left of the 10th fairway into a hazard. After several minutes of searching, he finally found his ball.

A rules official said he took too long. The official said he started the timer once Garcia arrived at the general location of his golf ball, while the Spaniard argued it should have started once he crossed the river as he knew his ball was on the other side and he was just looking for a way to cross.

Despite his persistence, Garcia was forced to take a drop.

After waving his hand in disgust, he said under his breath, “I can’t wait to leave this tour.”

His rant would continue.

“Can’t wait to get outta here. … just a couple more weeks until I don’t have to deal with you anymore.”

He left for LIV Golf soon after.