Sixteen LIV Golf players have made it to the final field for the 2024 Open Championship. The fourth and final Major of the year will be played at Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland, from July 18 to 21, 2024.
This will be the maximum number of LIV Golf players in a Majors field equivalent to the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club. Thirteen LIV players played at the 2024 Masters Tournament and 12 played at US Open 2024.
The 16 LIV Golf players to qualify for the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon are as follows:
- Abraham Ancer
- Dean Burmester
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Sam Horsfield
- Brooks Koepka
- Dustin Johnson
- Adrian Meronk
- Phil Mickelson
- Joaquin Niemann
- Andy Ogletree
- Louis Oosthuizen
- David Puig
- Jon Rahm
- Cameron Smith
- Henrik Stenson
Among the 16 LIV golfers, Abraham Ancer and Sam Horsfield qualified for the Open Championship through final qualifying event. 11 LIV Golf players competed at four different venues to qualify for the fourth Major.
Abraham Ancer qualified from Burnham & Berrow whereas Sam Horselfield qualified from West Lancashire. Notably, LIV golfer Sergio Garcia failed to qualify for the tournament after he carded 71 and 70 in the two rounds at Liverpool's West Lancashire Golf Club. He had failed to qualify for the event last year as well.
After failing to qualify, Garcia said (via ESPN):
"I come here and I try my hardest to get into The Open. It would be nice to make The Open my 100th Major, but it was tough conditions and sometimes things don't go your way. ... I tried everything that I could and that's all I can ask myself for."
Kieran Vincent, Carlos Ortiz, Peter Uihlein, Laurie Canter, Anirban Lahiri, Graeme McDowell, Eugenio Chacarra, and Branden Grace failed to advance to the tournament through qualifying event.
A look at the 16 LIV Golf players' performance at the Open Championship
Four of the 16 LIV Golf players - Phil Mickelson, Louis Oosthuizen, Henrik Stenson, and Cameron Smith - have won the Open Championship in the past. Whereas, Andy Ogletree and David Puig will be appearing at the tournament for the first time this year.
Let's take a look at the performance of the remaining LIV Golf players at the Open Championship in the past:
Abraham Ancer
Abraham Ancer has played the tournament five times. His best performance was in 2022 where he finished T11. Let's take a look at his performances at the Open Championship.
- 2018: CUT
- 2019: CUT
- 2021: T59
- 2022: T11
- 2023: T49
Dean Burmester
Dean Burmester will be playing his third tournament this year. In 2021, he finished T40 whereas in 2020 he finished T11.
Sam Horsfield
Sam Horsfield has participated twice, in 2021 he finished T67 and in 2022 he failed to make the cut.
Adrian Meronk
Adrian Meronk has also played in the tournament twice. In 2022, he finished as T42 whereas in 2023 he finished as T23.
Bryson DeChambeau
In six appearances, Bryson DeChambeau finished best in 2022 as T8. Let's take a look at his performances at the Open Championship:
- 2017: CUT
- 2018: T51
- 2019: CUT
- 2021: T33
- 2022: T8
- 2023: T60
Tyrrell Hatton
Tyrrell Hatton has made the cut in six of his 12 appearances at the tournament. His best performance came in 2016 where he finished T5.
- 2010: CUT
- 2013: CUT
- 2014: CUT
- 2015: CUT
- 2016: T5
- 2017: CUT
- 2018: T51
- 2019: T6
- 2020: NT
- 2021: CUT
- 2022: T11
- 2023: T20
Brooks Koepka
Brooks Koepka's best performance came in 2019 where he finished T4. He has a pair of T6 in 2017 and 2021.
- 2013: CUT
- 2014: T67
- 2015: T10
- 2017: T6
- 2018: T39
- 2019: T4
- 2020: NT
- 2021: T6
- 2022: CUT
- 2023: T64
Dustin Johnson
Dustin Johnson is a veteran at the tournament and finished as the runner-up in 2011.
- 2009: CUT
- 2010: T14
- 2011: T2
- 2012: T9
- 2013: T32
- 2014: T12
- 2015: T49
- 2016: T9
- 2017: T54
- 2018: CUT
- 2019: T51
- 2020: NT
- 2021: T8
- 2022: T6
- 2023: CUT
Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson is the most veteran LIV Golf player at the tournament. He won the Open Championship in 2013. However, he has failed to make the cut in five of his last six starts.
- 1991: T73
- 1994: CUT
- 1995: T40
- 1996: T41
- 1997: T24
- 1998: 79
- 1999: CUT
- 2000: T11
- 2001: T30
- 2002: T66
- 2003: T59
- 2004: 3
- 2005: T60
- 2006: T22
- 2007: CUT
- 2008: T19
- 2010: T48
- 2011: T2
- 2012: CUT
- 2013: 1
- 2014: T23
- 2015: T20
- 2016: 2
- 2017: CUT
- 2018: T24
- 2019: CUT
- 2021: CUT
- 2022: CUT
- 2023: CUT
Joaquin Niemann
Joaquin Niemann's best performance in his four appearances came in 2022 where he finished T53.
- 2019: CUT
- 2021: T59
- 2022: T53
- 2023: CUT
Louis Oosthuizen
Oosthuizen won the Open Championship in 2010. The LIV Golf player finished as the runner-up in 2015 and as T3 in 2021.
- 2004: CUT
- 2006: CUT
- 2009: CUT
- 2010: 1
- 2011: T54
- 2012: T19
- 2013: WD
- 2014: T36
- 2015: T2
- 2016: CUT
- 2017: CUT
- 2018: T28
- 2019: T20
- 2021: T3
- 2022: CUT
- 2023: T23
Jon Rahm
Jon Rahm finished as the runner-up in his last appearance in 2023.
- 2016: T59
- 2017: T44
- 2018: CUT
- 2019: T11
- 2020: NT
- 2021: T3
- 2022: T34
- 2023: T2
Cameron Smith
Cameron Smith won the tournament in 2022.
- 2017: CUT
- 2018: 78
- 2019: T20
- 2021: T33
- 2022: 1
- 2023: T33
Henrik Stenson
Henrik Stenson, the 48-year-old LIV Golf player, won the tournament in 2016. He was the runner-up in 2013.
- 2001: CUT
- 2005: T34
- 2006: T48
- 2007: CUT
- 2008: T3
- 2009: T13
- 2010: T3
- 2011: 68
- 2013: 2
- 2014: T39
- 2015: T40
- 2016: 1
- 2017: T11
- 2018: T35
- 2019: T20
- 2020: NT
- 2021: CUT
- 2022: CUT
- 2023: T13