2014 Open Championship

2014 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates17–20 July 2014
LocationMerseyside, England
Course(s)Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Organized byThe R&A
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par72
Length7,312 yd (6,686 m)
Field156 players, 72 after cut
Cut146 (+2)
Prize fund£5.400 million[1]
€6.776 million
$9.226 million
Winner's share£975,000[1]
€1,223,450
$1,665,788
Champion
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy
271 (−17)
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Hoylake is located in England
Hoylake
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Location in England
Hoylake is located in Merseyside
Hoylake
Hoylake
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Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside, west of Liverpool, England

The 2014 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 143rd Open Championship, held from 17 to 20 July at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Merseyside, England.

Rory McIlroy won his first Open Championship, two strokes ahead of runners-up Rickie Fowler and Sergio García, and became only the sixth to win the championship going wire-to-wire after 72 holes (being the sole leader after each round). It was McIlroy's third major title, having won the U.S. Open in 2011 and the PGA Championship in 2012; he became the first European to win three different majors and joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only three (since the first Masters Tournament in 1934) to win three majors by the age of 25.[2]

Venue

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Main article: Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake

The 2014 event was the twelfth Open Championship played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club.[3] The most recent was in 2006, with Tiger Woods winning his second consecutive Open Championship title, holding off Chris DiMarco with a two-shot victory. The first open at the venue was in 1897, won by amateur Harold Hilton by a stroke ahead of James Braid.

Hole Name Yards Par Hole Name Yards Par
1 17 – Royal 458 4 10  8 – Far 532 5
2 18 – Stand 454 4 11  9 – Punch Bowl 391 4
3  1 – Course 426 4 12 10 – Dee 447 4
4  2 – Road 372 4 13 11 – Alps 194 3
5  3 – Long 528 5 14 12 – Hilbre 454 4
6  4 – New 201 3 15 13 – Rushes 161 3
7  5 – Telegraph 480 4 16 14 – Field 577 5
8  6 – Briars 431 4 17 15 – Lake 458 4
9  7 – Dowie 197 3 18 16 – Dun 551 5
Out 3,547 35 In 3,765 37
Source[4][5][6] Total 7,312 72

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1947):[7]

  • 2006: 7,258 yards (6,637 m), par 72
  • 1967: 6,995 yards (6,396 m), par 72
  • 1956: 6,960 yards (6,364 m), par 71
  • 1947: 6,978 yards (6,381 m), par 68[8]

Field

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Criteria and exemptions

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Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.[9][10]

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 20 July 2014

2. The Open Champions for 2004–2013

3. The Open Champions finishing in the first 10 and tying for 10th place in The Open Championship 2009–2013

4. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2013 Open Championship

5. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2014

6. First 30 in the Race to Dubai for 2013

7. The BMW PGA Championship winners for 2012–2014

8. First 5 European Tour members and any European Tour members tying for 5th place, not otherwise exempt, in the top 20 of the Race to Dubai on completion of the 2014 BMW International Open

9. The U.S. Open Champions for 2010–2014

10. The Masters Tournament Champions for 2010–2014

11. The PGA Champions for 2009–2013

12. The Players Champions for 2012–2014

13. The leading 30 qualifiers for the 2013 Tour Championship

14. First 5 PGA Tour members and any PGA Tour members tying for 5th place, not exempt in the top 20 of the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list for 2014 on completion of the 2014 Travelers Championship

15. Playing members of the 2013 Presidents Cup teams

16. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Asian Tour for 2013

17. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the PGA Tour of Australasia for 2013

18. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Southern Africa PGA Sunshine Tour for 2013

19. The Japan Open Champion for 2013

20. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt, on the Official Money List of the Japan Golf Tour for 2013

21. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, in a cumulative money list taken from all official 2014 Japan Golf Tour events up to and including the 2014 Japan Golf Tour Championship.

22. The Senior Open Champion for 2013

23. The Amateur Champion for 2014

24. The U.S. Amateur Champion for 2013

25. The European Amateur Champion for 2013

26. The Mark H. McCormack Medal winner for 2013

Open Qualifying Series

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Major changes were made to qualification routes.[16] The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) was introduced, consisting of 10 events from the six major tours. This series largely replaced International Final Qualifying. Places were available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finished in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions went to players according to their position in that week's Official World Golf Ranking.

Location Tournament Date Spots Top Qualifiers
Australia Emirates Australian Open 1 Dec 3 10 Rhein Gibson, Bryden Macpherson, John Senden
Africa Joburg Open 9 Feb 3 10 George Coetzee, Jin Jeong, Justin Walters
Thailand 36-hole qualifier 7 Mar 4 n/a Hiroshi Iwata, Pan Cheng-tsung (a), Yoshinobu Tsukada, Wu Ashun
Japan Mizuno Open 1 Jun 4 12 Jang Dong-kyu, Kim Hyung-tae, Tomohiro Kondo, Juvic Pagunsan
Ireland The Irish Open 22 Jun 3 10 Matthew Baldwin, Edoardo Molinari, Danny Willett
USA Quicken Loans National 29 Jun 4 12 Charley Hoffman, Ben Martin, Brendan Steele, Shawn Stefani
France Alstom Open de France 6 Jul 3 10 Michael Hoey, Robert Karlsson, Victor Riu
USA Greenbrier Classic 6 Jul 4 12 Billy Hurley III, George McNeill, Chris Stroud, Cameron Tringale
Scotland Scottish Open 13 Jul 3 10 Kristoffer Broberg, Tyrrell Hatton, Scott Jamieson
USA John Deere Classic 13 Jul 1 5 Brian Harman

Final Qualifying

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Unlike in previous years, when final qualifying had been held on courses close to the Open Championship venue, events were played at four courses covering Scotland and the North, Central and South regions of England.

Location Qualifiers[a][b]
Gailes Links Paul McKechnie (R), Jamie McLeary, Marc Warren
Hillside Oscar Florén, Chris Hanson, John Singleton (R)
Sunningdale[c] An Byeong-hun, Chris Rodgers, Matthew Southgate
Woburn Paul Dunne (a), Rhys Enoch, Oliver Fisher

Alternates

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To make up the full field of 156, additional places were allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking at the time that these places were made available by the Championship Committee. Any places made available after the week 27 rankings issued on 6 July 2014 used these week 27 rankings.[10]

From the Week 26 Official World Golf Ranking:[18][19]

From the Week 27 Official World Golf Ranking:

Round summaries

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First round

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Thursday, 17 July 2014

Rory McIlroy shot a bogey-free round of 66 (−6) to take a one-stroke lead over Matteo Manassero.[21] World number one Adam Scott, Sergio García, brothers Edoardo and Francesco Molinari, Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka and Jim Furyk were another shot further back at 68 (−4).[22] Three-time champion Tiger Woods, playing in his first major championship of the year following back surgery, rebounded from bogeys on his first two holes to post a round of 69 (−3).[23]

Place Player Score To par
1 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 66 −6
2 Italy Matteo Manassero 67 −5
T3 United States Jim Furyk 68 −4
Spain Sergio García
United States Brooks Koepka
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry
Italy Edoardo Molinari
Italy Francesco Molinari
Australia Adam Scott
T10 United States Rickie Fowler 69 −3
Sweden Robert Karlsson
Australia Marc Leishman
Japan Hideki Matsuyama
Japan Koumei Oda
Japan Yoshinobu Tsukada
United States Jimmy Walker
United States Boo Weekley
United States Tiger Woods

Second round

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Friday, 18 July 2014

Rory McIlroy shot a second consecutive round of 66 (−6) to post a 132 total (−12) and a four-shot lead after 36 holes.[24] Dustin Johnson had the lowest round of the tournament with a 65 (−7) to move into second place.[25]

Place Player Score To par
1 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 66-66=132 −12
2 United States Dustin Johnson 71-65=136 −8
T3 United States Rickie Fowler 69-69=138 −6
Spain Sergio García 68-70=138
Italy Francesco Molinari 68-70=138
United States Ryan Moore 70-68=138
South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 70-68=138
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 71-67=138
T9 South Africa George Coetzee 70-69=139 −5
United States Jim Furyk 68-71=139
Scotland Marc Warren 71-68=139

Amateurs: Chesters (+3), Dunne (+4), Pan (+4), Neil (+11).

Third round

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Saturday, 19 July 2014

In anticipation of an approaching severe storm with lightning Saturday afternoon, the R&A announced Friday that the third round would be played off both the 1st and 10th tees in threesomes. Normal play is from only the first tee in pairs. This was the first time that play went off both tees at The Open.[26]

Rickie Fowler, beginning the round six shots behind leader Rory McIlroy, recorded birdies on 7 of his first 12 holes to pull into a tie for the lead at 12-under. Still tied, Fowler made bogey on the 14th, while McIlroy made a 35-foot (11 m) putt for birdie and a two-shot swing which gave him the lead again. At the par-5 16th, Fowler made another bogey to drop into a tie for second with playing partner Sergio García.[27] McIlroy then eagled the hole to take a 5-shot lead after the three-shot swing with Fowler. All three players bogeyed the 17th. At the par-5 18th, García made par and Fowler made birdie, but McIlroy hit his approach to 6 feet (1.8 m) and made another eagle, pushing his lead to six shots after 54 holes. McIlroy was the only person to eagle the 16th and 18th holes in the third round. Going into the closing round, McIlroy was within three shots of both the Open scoring record to par and the record score to par for all major championships, both of which are −19. The severe storms expected never materialized, although heavy showers preceded and followed third round play.[28]

Place Player Score To par
1 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 66-66-68=200 −16
2 United States Rickie Fowler 69-69-68=206 −10
T3 Spain Sergio García 68-70-69=207 −9
United States Dustin Johnson 71-65-71=207
5 France Victor Dubuisson 74-66-68=208 −8
6 Italy Edoardo Molinari 68-73-68=209 −7
T7 United States Jim Furyk 68-71-71=210 −6
Sweden Robert Karlsson 69-71-70=210
Italy Matteo Manassero 67-75-68=210
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 71-67-72=210
Australia Adam Scott 68-73-69=210

Final round

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Sunday, 20 July 2014

Sergio García applied pressure on the leader Rory McIlroy early, making birdie at three of the first five holes. McIlroy responded with a birdie at the 1st hole, while playing partner Rickie Fowler missed a number of early opportunities for birdie. McIlroy made bogey at both the 5th and the 6th to drop his lead to 3 shots, and came back with a birdie at the 9th. García made an eagle at the 10th, besting McIlroy and Fowler who both made birdie.[29] McIlroy made bogey at 13 to fall to −16 and his lead fell to two shots over García. However, García missed the green at the 15th in a greenside bunker and failed to escape the bunker on his first attempt. He made bogey and dropped into a tie with Fowler at −13.[30] All three players made birdie at 16, and McIlroy missed the green at the 17th. His chip shot rolled to within a foot from the cup, securing par. Fowler and García both made birdie at the 18th. McIlroy made par for a two-shot victory.[31] Jim Furyk finished fourth, as he did in 2006, also at Hoylake.[32]

The low round of the day and the championship was 65 (−7), recorded by four players in placid conditions on Sunday.[33]

Final leaderboard

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Champion
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Place Player Score To par Money (£)
1 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 66-66-68-71=271 −17 975,000
T2 United States Rickie Fowler 69-69-68-67=273 −15 460,000
Spain Sergio García 68-70-69-66=273
4 United States Jim Furyk 68-71-71-65=275 −13 280,000
T5 Australia Marc Leishman 69-72-70-65=276 −12 210,500
Australia Adam Scott 68-73-69-66=276
T7 Italy Edoardo Molinari 68-73-68-68=277 −11 154,250
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 71-67-72-67=277
T9 France Victor Dubuisson 74-66-68-70=278 −10 112,666
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry 68-75-70-65=278
Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell 74-69-68-67=278

Source:[34][35]

Scorecard

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Final round

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 4 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 3 5 4 4 3 4 3 5 4 5
Northern Ireland McIlroy −17 −17 −17 −17 −16 −15 −15 −15 −16 −17 −17 −17 −16 −16 −16 −17 −17 −17
United States Fowler −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −13 −14 −14 −15
Spain García −10 −10 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −14 −14 −14 −14 −14 −13 −14 −14 −15
United States Furyk −6 −6 −6 −6 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10 −11 −12 −12 −13
Australia Leishman −5 −5 −5 −6 −7 −8 −8 −9 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −12
Australia Scott −6 −7 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −7 −7 −8 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −11 −11 −12

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey

Source:[34][35]

Notes

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  1. ^ (a) – indicates the player was an amateur.
  2. ^ (R) – indicates a golfer who came through Regional Qualifying.
  3. ^ Sunningdale replaced Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club after it received significant damage following winter storms.[17]
  4. ^ Olesen replaced Charles Howell III.[20]
  5. ^ Ishikawa replaced Steve Stricker.[14]
  6. ^ Fisher replaced Mark O'Meara.[12]
  7. ^ Hearn replaced Mark Calcavecchia.[13]

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