Fourteen LIV Golfers Already Set To Tee-Up In Golf’s Oldest Major

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The number of LIV Golf players exempt into July’s 153rd hosting of the Open Championship has risen to 14 at the close of the Asian Tour’s International Series Macau.

The top-three in Macau were each LIV golfers with Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz booking his Royal Portrush tee-time thanks to his three-shot success in Macau.

Texan and 4Aces team member Patrick Reed, who was T10th when The Open was last held in 2019 in Northern Ireland, was runner-up while American compatroit and LIV Smash GC member Jason Kokrak was third.

Heartache for Spaniard Sergio Garcia who missed a three-footer at the last that would have tied him with Kokrak and seen him also heading to The Open.

By way of contrast there was 18 LIV players who contested last year’s 152nd Open at Royal Troon however there is still a number of roads that can lead to qualifying for this July’s Open Championship, including four Final Qualifying venues in the UK hosing venues on 1st July.

Though the next qualifier is mid-May when the leading player, and not otherwise exempt, at the close of  KOLON Korea Open in South Korea will earn a Royal Portrush tee time.

The full list of the 14 LIV stars currently into The Open are listed hereunder in alphabetical order:

Bryson DeChambeau

Tyrrell Hatton

Brooks Koepka

Jason Kokrak

Marc Leishman

Tom McKibbin

PPhil Mickelson (2013 Open winner)

Joaquin Niemann

Louis Oosthuizen (2010 Open winner)

Carlos Ortiz

Jon Rahm

Patrick Reed

Cam Smith (2022 Open winner)

Henrik Stenson (2016 Open winner)



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