2022 Open Championship
The 2022 Open Championship, officially the 150th Open Championship, was a golf tournament played 14–17 July on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland. The championship was won by Cameron Smith with a score of 268, 20 under par, one stroke ahead of Cameron Young.
Originally scheduled for 15–18 July 2021, the championship was put back one year after the 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring that the sesquicentennial celebration was at the "home of golf".
Organisation
The Open Championship is organised by the R&A, and is included in the PGA Tour, European Tour, and Japan Golf Tour calendars under the major championships category. The tournament is a 72-hole stroke play competition held over 4 days, with 18 holes played each day. Play is in groups of three for the first two days, and groups of two in the final two days. Groupings for the first two days are decided by the organisers, with each group having one morning, and one afternoon tee time. On the final two days, players tee off in reverse order of aggregate score, with the leaders last. After 36 holes there was a cut, after which the top 70 and ties progress through to compete in the third and fourth rounds. In the event of a tie for the lowest score after four rounds, a four-hole aggregate playoff will be held to determine the winner; this will be followed by sudden-death extra holes if necessary until a winner emerges.Venue
The 2022 event was the 30th Open Championship played at the Old Course at St Andrews. The most recent was in 2015, when Zach Johnson won the four-hole playoff for his second major title.Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship :
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Field
Criteria and exemptions
Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 17 July 2022
- Mark Calcavecchia
- Stewart Cink
- Darren Clarke
- John Daly
- David Duval
- Ernie Els
- Pádraig Harrington
- Zach Johnson
- Paul Lawrie
- Shane Lowry
- Rory McIlroy
- Phil Mickelson
- Francesco Molinari
- Collin Morikawa
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Jordan Spieth
- Henrik Stenson
- Tiger Woods
- Ben Curtis, Todd Hamilton, and Justin Leonard did not play.
3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2021 Open Championship
- Dylan Frittelli
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Dustin Johnson
- Brooks Koepka
- Robert MacIntyre
- Jon Rahm
- Scottie Scheffler
- Daniel Berger did not play.
- Abraham Ancer
- Keegan Bradley
- Sam Burns
- Patrick Cantlay
- Paul Casey
- Corey Conners
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Harris English
- Tony Finau
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Talor Gooch
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Russell Henley
- Lucas Herbert
- Tom Hoge
- Max Homa
- Billy Horschel
- Viktor Hovland
- Im Sung-jae
- Kevin Kisner
- Jason Kokrak
- Lee Kyoung-hoon
- Marc Leishman
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Kevin Na
- Joaquín Niemann
- Mito Pereira
- Thomas Pieters
- Séamus Power
- Patrick Reed
- Xander Schauffele
- Adam Scott
- Webb Simpson
- Cameron Smith
- Justin Thomas
- Cameron Tringale
- Harold Varner III
- Cameron Young
- Will Zalatoris
- Alexander Björk
- Richard Bland
- Dean Burmester
- Laurie Canter
- Thomas Detry
- Justin Harding
- Garrick Higgo
- Nicolai Højgaard
- Min Woo Lee
- Guido Migliozzi
- Ian Poulter
- Jason Scrivener
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Danny Willett
- Justin Rose did not play.
7. Top five players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2022 DP World Tour Rankings through the BMW International Open
- Adri Arnaus
- Sam Horsfield
- Pablo Larrazábal
- Li Haotong
- Jordan Smith
- Gary Woodland
- Sergio García
- Jimmy Walker did not play.
12. The top 30 players from the 2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs
- Erik van Rooyen did not play.
14. Winner of the 2021 Visa Open de Argentina
- Jorge Fernández-Valdés
- Lee Westwood
- Jediah Morgan
- Shaun Norris
19. Winner of the 2022 Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Diamond Cup
- Shugo Imahira
- Takumi Kanaya
- Chan Kim
- Kazuki Higa
- Stephen Dodd
- Aldrich Potgieter
James Piot
- Filippo Celli
- Keita Nakajima
28. Winner of the 2022 Latin America Amateur Championship
- Aaron Jarvis
Open Qualifying Series
| Location | Tournament | Date | Spots | Top | Qualifiers |
| South Africa | Joburg Open | 28 Nov 2021 | 3 | 10 | Ashley Chesters, Thriston Lawrence, Zander Lombard |
| Singapore | SMBC Singapore Open | 23 Jan 2022 | 4 | 12 | Sadom Kaewkanjana, Yuto Katsuragawa, Tom Kim, Sihwan Kim |
| Australia | Vic Open | 13 Feb 2022 | 3 | 10 | Ben Campbell, Matthew Griffin, Dimitrios Papadatos |
| United States | Arnold Palmer Invitational | 6 Mar 2022 | 3 | 10 | Talor Gooch, Chris Kirk |
| Japan | Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open | 29 May 2022 | 4 | 12 | Justin De Los Santos, Brad Kennedy, Anthony Quayle, Scott Vincent |
| Netherlands | Dutch Open | 29 May 2022 | 3 | 10 | Ryan Fox, Adrian Meronk, Victor Perez |
| Canada | RBC Canadian Open | 12 Jun 2022 | 2 | 8 | Wyndham Clark, Keith Mitchell |
| Korea | Kolon Korea Open | 26 Jun 2022 | 2 | 8 | Cho Min-gyu, Kim Min-kyu |
| Ireland | Horizon Irish Open | 3 Jul 2022 | 3 | 10 | John Catlin, David Law, Fabrizio Zanotti |
| United States | John Deere Classic | 3 Jul 2022 | 3 | 10 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Emiliano Grillo, J. T. Poston |
| Scotland | Genesis Scottish Open | 10 Jul 2022 | 3 | 10 | Jamie Donaldson, Kurt Kitayama, Brandon Wu |
| United States | Barbasol Championship | 10 Jul 2022 | 1 | 5 | Trey Mullinax |
Final Qualifying
Final Qualifying events were played on 28 June at four locations. Four qualifying places were available at each location, with 72 golfers competing at each.| Location | Qualifiers |
| Fairmont St Andrews | David Carey, Robert Dinwiddie, Lars van Meijel, Alex Wrigley |
| Hollinwell | Barclay Brown, Oliver Farr, Richard Mansell, Marco Penge |
| Prince's | Jack Floydd, Matt Ford, Ronan Mullarney, Jamie Rutherford |
| St Annes Old Links | Marcus Armitage, Sam Bairstow, Matthew Jordan, John Parry |
Additional players added to the field
In order to fill additional places or replace exempt players who had withdrawn prior to the start of the Championship, and maintain the full field of 156, additional players were either taken in ranking order from Official World Golf Ranking at the time they were added, or from Final Qualifying.- Aaron Wise
- Brian Harman
- Sebastián Muñoz
- Sepp Straka
- Luke List
- Kim Si-woo
- Sahith Theegala
- Rikuya Hoshino
- Aaron Rai
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, 14 July 2022PGA Tour rookie Cameron Young had a two-shot lead after a bogey-free round of 8 under par, two shots ahead of pre-tournament favourite Rory McIlroy. Defending champion Collin Morikawa opened with a level-par 72 while three-time winner Tiger Woods double-bogeyed the first and continued to struggle there on, finishing at 6 over.
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 |  |