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2019 Open Championship

The 2019 Open Championship was the 148th Open Championship, played 18–21 July at Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It was the second Open Championship at Portrush, which last hosted in 1951, won by Max Faulkner. Royal Portrush saw major alterations in preparation for the tournament, including replacing two of the holes.

2019 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates18–21 July 2019
LocationPortrush, County Antrim,
Northern Ireland
55°12′00″N 6°38′06″W / 55.200°N 6.635°W / 55.200; -6.635
Course(s)Royal Portrush Golf Club
Dunluce Links
Organized byThe R&A
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par71
Length7,344 yards (6,715 m)
Field156 players, 73 after cut
Cut143 (+1)
Prize fund$10,750,000[1]
€9,546,221
Winner's share$1,935,000
€1,718,320
Champion
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry
269 (−15)
Location map
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Location in the United Kingdom
Royal Portrush is located in island of Ireland
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Location in Ireland
Royal Portrush is located in Northern Ireland
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Shane Lowry won his first major title by six strokes over Tommy Fleetwood. Ranked 33rd coming into the tournament, Lowry's previous biggest wins were the 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the 2019 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Lowry became the second player from the Republic of Ireland to win a major after Pádraig Harrington.[2]

Lowry shot 67 in both the first and second rounds to share the lead with J. B. Holmes after 36 holes. He shot a course record (since the 2016 renovation) 63 in the third round to have a four-stroke lead over Tommy Fleetwood going into the final day. After shooting a 72 in challenging conditions on the last day, Lowry was able to convert a four-shot 54-hole lead into major victory, after failing to do the same at the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont. Fleetwood finished solo second for the second time in a major, having previously achieved the feat at the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills.[2]

Major champions Darren Clarke, Graeme McDowell, and Rory McIlroy competed in a major in their native Northern Ireland for the first time. Clarke was given the honour of the opening tee shot and described the event as a watershed moment for Northern Ireland, as hosting was seen as unrealistic during the years when violence ravaged the province.[3] McIlroy was the pre-tournament favourite but shot an 8-over-par 79 in the first round, which included a quadruple bogey eight on the first hole, a double bogey five on the 16th, and a triple bogey seven on the 18th. Despite shooting a 6-under-par 65 in the second round for a two-over-par total, he missed the cut by a single stroke.[4] Clarke also missed the cut, and McDowell finished tied-57th.[2]

Defending champion Francesco Molinari made the cut on the number and finished tied for 11th with a 3-under-par 281. Brooks Koepka finished tied 4th to become the fifth player, after Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods, to finish top-five in all four majors in a single season.[2]

The 36-hole cut was 143 (+1) and better; 73 advanced to the weekend, but no amateurs, so the Silver Medal was not awarded.[2]

Media

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The 2019 Open Championship was televised by the Comcast Group in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland (both on Sky Sports), and the United States (Golf Channel on its cable service on Thursday and Friday, while on NBC its broadcast service on weekends). It was the fourth year of both channels airing the tournament, but the first since Comcast acquired Sky in late 2018, vertically integrating the two. At the 2019 Players Championship, Comcast integrated the two channels' coverage for the first time since the acquisition, and is expected to feature coverage from both networks' commentators.[citation needed]

Venue

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Main article: Royal Portrush Golf Club

Changes to the course for the Open

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The new 7th hole at Royal Portrush

Specialists Mackenzie & Ebert oversaw changes to the course in preparation for the 2019 Open. The work began in 2015 and it was the first major changes to the Harry Colt designed links since the 1930s. Changes included:[5]

  • Removing the 17th and 18th holes. Holes 7 to 16 became holes 9 to 18.
  • Two new holes (the current 7th and 8th), which were created with land taken from the Valley course.
  • Reshaping some of the greens.
  • Nine holes had new tees, there were several new bunkers, and the course was lengthened by 201 yards.

Card of the course

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Dunluce Links – Championship tees

Hole Name Yards Par Hole Name Yards Par
1 Hughie's 421 4 10 Himalayas 447 4
2 Giant's Grave 574 5 11 P.G. Stevenson's 474 4
3 Islay 177 3 12 Dhu Varren 532 5
4 Fred Daly's 482 4 13 Feather Bed 194 3
5 White Rocks 374 4 14 Causeway 473 4
6 Harry Colt's 194 3 15 Skerries 426 4
7 Curran Point 592 5 16 Calamity Corner 236 3
8 Dunluce 434 4 17 Purgatory 408 4
9 Tavern 432 4 18 Babington's 474 4
Out 3,680 36 In 3,664 35
Source:[6] Total 7,344 71

If required a three-hole aggregate playoff, followed by sudden death, would have used the 1st, 13th, and 18th holes.[7]

Length of the course for the previous Open:[8][9]

  • 1951: 6,802 yards (6,220 m), par 72

Field

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The Open Championship field was made up of 156 players, who gained entry through various exemption criteria and qualifying tournaments. The criteria included past Open champions, recent major winners, top ranked players in the world rankings and from the leading world tours, and winners and high finishers from various designated tournaments, including the Open Qualifying Series; the winners of designated amateur events, including The Amateur Championship and U.S. Amateur, also gained exemption provided they remain an amateur. Anyone not qualifying via exemption, and had a handicap of 0.4 or lower, could gain entry through regional and final qualifying events.[10]

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.[a][11]

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 21 July 2019

2. The Open Champions for 2009–2018

3. Top 10 finishers and ties in the 2018 Open Championship

4. Top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2019

5. Top 30 on the 2018 Race to Dubai

6. Last three BMW PGA Championship winners

7. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2019 Race to Dubai through the BMW International Open

8. Last five U.S. Open winners

9. Last five Masters Tournament winners

10. Last six PGA Championship winners

11. Last three Players Championship winners

12. The 30 qualifiers for the 2018 Tour Championship

13. Top 5 players, not already exempt, within the top 20 of the 2019 FedEx Cup points list through the Travelers Championship

14. Winner of the 2018 Open de Argentina

15. Playing members of the 2018 Ryder Cup teams

16. Winner of the 2018 Asian Tour Order of Merit

17. Winner of the 2018 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

18. Winner of the 2018–19 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

19. Winner of the 2018 Japan Open

20. Winner of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup Golf

21. Top 2 on the 2018 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List

22. Top player, not already exempt, on the 2019 Japan Golf Tour Official Money List through the Japan Golf Tour Championship

23. Winner of the 2018 Senior Open Championship

24. Winner of the 2019 Amateur Championship

25. Winner of the 2018 U.S. Amateur

26. Winners of the 2019 European Amateur

27. Recipient of the 2018 Mark H. McCormack Medal

28. Winner of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship

Open Qualifying Series

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The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) consisted of twelve events from the six major tours and the Korean Tour.[18] 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 ranked highest according to that week's OWGR.

Location Tournament Date Spots Top Qualifiers
Australia Emirates Australian Open 18 Nov 3 10 Abraham Ancer, Jake McLeod (17), Dimitrios Papadatos
Africa South African Open 9 Dec 3 10 Romain Langasque, Oliver Wilson
Singapore SMBC Singapore Open 20 Jan 4 12 Yoshinori Fujimoto, Jazz Janewattananond, Prom Meesawat, Mun Do-yeob
United States Arnold Palmer Invitational 10 Mar 3 10 Im Sung-jae, Kang Sung-hoon, Keith Mitchell
Japan Mizuno Open 2 Jun 4 12 Gunn Charoenkul, Yuta Ikeda, Chan Kim, Park Sang-hyun
Canada RBC Canadian Open 9 Jun 3 10 Adam Hadwin, Graeme McDowell
  • Only two eligible players finished in the top 10.
Korea Kolon Korea Open 23 Jun 2 8 Hwang Inn-choon, Jang Dong-kyu
Spain Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters 30 Jun 3 10 Adri Arnaus, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Mike Lorenzo-Vera
United States Rocket Mortgage Classic 30 Jun 2 8 Nate Lashley, Doc Redman
Ireland Dubai Duty Free Irish Open 7 Jul 3 10 Robert Rock, Paul Waring, Bernd Wiesberger
Scotland Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open 14 Jul 3 10 Nino Bertasio, Benjamin Hébert, Andrew Johnston
United States John Deere Classic 14 Jul 1 5 Dylan Frittelli

Final Qualifying

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The Final Qualifying events were played on 2 July at four courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England. Three qualifying places were available at each location, with 72 golfers competing at each.[19] Sam Locke and Ashton Turner were successful at Final Qualifying for the second consecutive year.[20] Brandon Wu was exempt[10] from regional qualifying because he was ranked in the top ten in the World Amateur Golf Ranking,[21] while Tom Thurloway was exempted by winning the 2018 English Amateur closed championship.[22] Other qualifiers were exempted from regional qualifying by virtue of a top 1000 Official World Golf Ranking at the date of entry.[10]

Location Qualifiers[a][b]
Fairmont St Andrews Sam Locke, Connor Syme, Brandon Wu (a)
Notts (Hollinwell) Tom Thurloway (a), Ashton Turner, Andrew Wilson (R)
Prince's Austin Connelly, Curtis Knipes (a) (R), Callum Shinkwin
St Annes Old Links Matthew Baldwin, Garrick Porteous, Jack Senior

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. The first 14 alternates were added using the week 25 rankings on 26 June;[23] two of those declined spots and were replaced by the next two alternates.

From the Week 25 (week ending 23 June) Official World Golf Ranking:
From the Week 27 (week ending 7 July) Official World Golf Ranking:

Weather

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  • Thursday: Mostly cloudy with intermittent showers. High of 64 °F (18 °C). Winds WSW 10–15 mph (16–24 km/h) with gusts of 20–25 mph (32–40 km/h).
  • Friday: Mostly cloudy with occasional rain showers. High of 66 °F (19 °C). Winds NNE 5–10 mph (8–16 km/h).
  • Saturday: Cloudy with periods of sunshine. High of 66 °F (19 °C). Winds WNW 7–10 mph (11–16 km/h) with gusts of 18–22 mph (29–35 km/h).
  • Sunday: Due to expected inclement weather, final round tee times ran from 7:32 a.m. to 1:47 p.m. Rainy with periods of heavy rain. High of 66 °F (19 °C). Winds SSW 17–20 mph (27–32 km/h) with gusts of 30–35 mph (48–56 km/h).[2]

Round summaries

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First round

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Thursday, 18 July 2019

Brooks Koepka, winner of four of the last ten majors, shot a three-under 68 and was two strokes off the lead, tied for third with twelve others. Tiger Woods hit his highest first round score in the Open, a seven-over 78. J. B. Holmes opened with 66 for a one-shot lead over early leader Shane Lowry.[24] It was the second time he'd led in a major championship, the other time being the second round of the 2008 PGA Championship at Oakland Hills. Rory McIlroy shot an 8-over-par 79 which included a quadruple bogey eight on the first hole, a double bogey five on the 16th and a triple bogey seven on the 18th.[25] Two weeks after his win at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, Jon Rahm finished two shots off the first-round lead.[2]

Place Player Score To par
1   J. B. Holmes 66 −5
2   Shane Lowry 67 −4
T3   Kiradech Aphibarnrat 68 −3
  Tony Finau
  Tommy Fleetwood
  Ryan Fox
  Dylan Frittelli
  Sergio García
  Tyrrell Hatton
  Brooks Koepka
  Robert MacIntyre
  Alex Norén
  Jon Rahm
  Webb Simpson
  Lee Westwood
Source:[26]

Second round

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Friday, 19 July 2019

After round two, Shane Lowry and J. B. Holmes shared the lead on eight under. Brooks Koepka sat at tied-8th, the 12th consecutive major he'd been in the top 20. Four players, Justin Harding (T5), Xander Schauffele (T18), Kevin Streelman (T48) and Rory McIlroy (MC), posted a second round 6-under-par 65, the current course record (since renovation). 73 professionals and no amateurs made the cut line of 143 (+1). McIlroy missed the cut by one stroke, for the first time since 2013.[27] Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson both missed the cut, the first time this had happened in 83 majors. Local resident Graeme McDowell, and defending champion, Francesco Molinari, made the cut on number.[2]

Place Player Score To par
T1   J. B. Holmes 66-68=134 −8
  Shane Lowry 67-67=134
T3   Tommy Fleetwood 68-67=135 −7
  Lee Westwood 68-67=135
T5   Justin Harding 71-65=136 −6
  Justin Rose 69-67=136
  Cameron Smith 70-66=136
T8   Dylan Frittelli 68-69=137 −5
  Brooks Koepka 68-69=137
  Andrew Putnam 70-67=137
  Jordan Spieth 70-67=137

Amateurs: Kanaya (+2), Sugrue (+2), Schmid (+5), Wu (+7), Knipes (+9), Thurloway (+14)

Source:[26]

Third round

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Saturday, 20 July 2019

Shane Lowry shot an 8-under-par 63 to break the course record since it was remodeled in 2016. His 197 set a new 54-hole scoring record at the Open, beating the 198 set by Tom Lehman in 1996 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.[28] He became the 12th player since 2000 to be leading in a major by four or more strokes, with only three of them failing to go on and win, including Lowry himself at the 2016 U.S. Open. Lee Westwood sat tied-6th in his 82nd major start, which is the second highest number of major starts without a victory, with only Jay Haas (87) having more. The light afternoon winds favoured the later starters, and led to lower scores than in the first two days.[2]

Place Player Score To par
1   Shane Lowry 67-67-63=197 −16
2   Tommy Fleetwood 68-67-66=201 −12
3   J. B. Holmes 66-68-69=203 −10
T4   Brooks Koepka 68-69-67=204 −9
  Justin Rose 69-67-68=204
T6   Rickie Fowler 70-69-66=205 −8
  Lee Westwood 68-67-70=205
T8   Tony Finau 68-70-68=206 −7
  Jon Rahm 68-70-68=206
  Jordan Spieth 70-67-69=206
  Danny Willett 74-67-65=206
Source:[26]

Final round

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Sunday, 21 July 2019

Summary

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Sunday's tee times were moved forward due to the adverse weather forecast. The first tee time for the final round at Royal Portrush was at 7:32am BST, with the two leaders beginning their final round at 1:47pm.[29][30] Shane Lowry shot a 1-over-par 72, with only Tony Finau scoring lower (71) out of the players in the top 10 after round 3. It meant Lowry won with a six-shot margin ahead of Tommy Fleetwood, the highest winning margin in a major since Martin Kaymer in the 2014 U.S. Open. Lowry had a clear lead throughout the round, and was generally praised for his composure in testing weather conditions, with some remarking about the similarity to his 2009 Irish Open win when he still had amateur status.[2] J. B. Holmes started the day at 10-under-par in solo third place, he shot a 16-over 87 to finish tied for 67th at 6-over-par.

Final leaderboard

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Champion
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

Note: Top 10 and ties qualify for the 2020 Open Championship; top 4 and ties qualify for the 2020 Masters Tournament

Place Player Score To par Money ($)
1   Shane Lowry 67-67-63-72=269 −15 1,935,000
2   Tommy Fleetwood 68-67-66-74=275 −9 1,120,000
3   Tony Finau 68-70-68-71=277 −7 718,000
T4   Brooks Koepka 68-69-67-74=278 −6 503,500
  Lee Westwood 68-67-70-73=278
T6   Rickie Fowler 70-69-66-74=279 −5 313,000
  Tyrrell Hatton 68-71-71-69=279
  Robert MacIntyre 68-72-71-68=279
  Danny Willett 74-67-65-73=279
10   Patrick Reed 71-67-71-71=280 −4 223,000
Source:[26]

Scorecard

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Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 4 5 3 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 3 4 4
  Lowry −15 −15 −15 −16 −17 −17 −18 −17 −16 −16 −15 −15 −15 −14 −15 −15 −15 −15
  Fleetwood −12 −12 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −11 −11 −10 −10 −11 −11 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9
  Finau −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −8 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7
  Westwood −7 −8 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10 −9 −10 −9 −8 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −6
  Koepka −8 −7 −6 −5 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −7 −6 −6
  MacIntyre −2 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5
  Hatton −3 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5
  Willett −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −8 −8 −7 −8 −7 −6 −5 −5 −5 −5
  Fowler −6 −7 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −7 −7 −7 −6 −5 −6 −6 −5 −5
  Reed −4 −4 −5 −5 −4 −4 −5 −5 −4 −4 −4 −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −4
  Holmes −8 −8 −8 −7 −7 −6 −7 −6 −5 −5 −2 E E +1 +1 +2 +4 +6
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey Triple bogey+

Aftermath

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Reaction from Lowry

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Lowry was interviewed by host broadcaster, Sky Sports, where he discussed his victory:[31]

"It's like an out-of-body experience! I was so calm coming down the last, I cannot believe it. The weather was awful but I had a look around, and everyone was struggling. It became a two-horse race with Tommy, and I just tried to focus on staying ahead."
"I suppose I talked to my caddie Bo a lot today, I said 'I cannot stop thinking about winning, holding the claret jug'. He just said, 'stay focused', and what a job he did today. I cannot wait to wake up tomorrow and feel what it feels like it is phenomenal."

Media and sporting reaction

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Lowry's victory was widely covered in Ireland, and was featured on the front page of newspapers in both the Republic and Northern Ireland.

As Lowry advanced towards victory, the crowds gathered at Croke Park for the 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final double header received updates on the big screens in the stadium.[32]

Statistics

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Course

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Hardest three holes
Easiest three holes
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Par 4 5 3 4 4 3 5 4 4 36 4 4 5 3 4 4 3 4 4 35 71
Yards 421 574 177 482 374 194 592 434 432 3,664 447 474 532 194 473 426 236 408 474 3,680 Total
Average score to par
1st round +0.21 −0.37 +0.02 +0.24 −0.10 +0.24 +0.12 +0.06 +0.22 +0.64 −0.03 +0.40 −0.22 −0.04 +0.16 +0.26 +0.24 +0.20 +0.37 +1.35 +1.99
2nd round +0.15 −0.12 +0.04 +0.24 −0.09 −0.12 −0.35 +0.12 +0.12 −0.09 +0.04 +0.19 −0.48 −0.03 +0.53 −0.05 +0.19 −0.03 +0.19 +0.47 +0.39
3rd round +0.08 −0.67 −0.10 +0.15 −0.04 +0.25 −0.07 −0.03 +0.00 −0.42 +0.00 +0.32 −0.48 +0.07 +0.33 +0.11 +0.25 −0.19 +0.10 +0.49 +0.07
4th round +0.34 −0.32 −0.01 +0.10 −0.30 +0.03 −0.26 +0.32 +0.36 +0.25 +0.03 +0.62 −0.12 +0.16 +0.38 +0.12 +0.37 +0.29 +0.14 +1.99 +2.23
Tournament +0.19 −0.32 −0.03 +0.20 −0.12 +0.09 −0.13 +0.11 +0.17 +0.10 −0.02 +0.35 −0.34 +0.01 +0.35 +0.11 +0.25 +0.07 +0.23 +1.08 +1.18

Source:[33]

Player

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The leading player in each category were:

Fairways hit
1st round Park Sang-hyun 92.86%
2nd round Adam Hadwin
Matt Kuchar
Xander Schauffele
Kevin Streelman		 92.86%
3rd round Paul Waring 92.86%
4th round Lee Westwood 92.86%
Tournament Brian Harman
Takumi Kanaya		 82.14%
Greens in regulation
1st round Shane Lowry 88.89%
2nd round Yuki Inamori
Xander Schauffele		 94.44%
3rd round Shane Lowry 94.44%
4th round Francesco Molinari 88.89%
Tournament Shane Lowry 79.17%
Average number of putts
1st round Ryan Palmer 1.33
2nd round Jack Senior 1.28
3rd round Danny Willett 1.39
4th round Matt Fitzpatrick
Jim Furyk
Patrick Reed		 1.39
Tournament Zach Johnson
Jack Senior		 1.44
Longest drives (yards)
1st round Callum Shinkwin 381
2nd round Luke List
Bubba Watson		 351
3rd round Alex Norén 335
4th round Louis Oosthuizen 343
Tournament Callum Shinkwin 381

Source:[34]

Driver conformity issues

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Before the start of the championship, The R&A made random inspections of players' clubs and found four drivers out of 30 tested did not comply with the characteristic time (CT) test requirements, including that of Xander Schauffele.[35] It was also reported that 15 drivers had failed similar testing in May 2019 at the Diamond Cup Golf event on the Japan Golf Tour.[36]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b (a) – indicates the player was an amateur.
  2. ^ (R) – indicates a golfer who came through Regional Qualifying.
  3. ^ a b c d Piercy and Moore did not play; they were replaced by Pavan and Korhonen.
  4. ^ Niemann replaced Todd Hamilton.[13]
  5. ^ Streelman replaced John Daly.[12][13]
  6. ^ Sabbatini replaced Kevin Na.[14]
  7. ^ Harman replaced Charles Howell III.[15]

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