There were 13 LIV Golfers at the 2024 Masters, 16 at the PGA Championship, 13 at the US Open – before Jon Rahm withdrew – and there will be 14 teeing it up at Royal Troon in the 152nd Open.
The LIV contingent is headlined by US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, who is amongst the bookmakers’ favorites after also finishing T6th at The Masters and 2nd at the PGA Championship.
DeChambeau’s 13 colleagues include 2021 Champion Golfer of the Year Cameron Smith, two-time Major winner Rahm, five-time Major champion Brooks Koepka and 2016 Troon winner Henrik Stenson.
Here we list all 14 LIV Golfers in The Open field in alphabetical order and how they qualified:
Abraham Ancer
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Ancer makes his first Major start of 2024 and sixth consecutive Open appearance after coming through Final Qualifying.
The Mexican, who won the LIV Golf Hong Kong event earlier this year, edged out fellow LIV player Anirban Lahiri in a playoff at Burnham and Berrow.
Ancer has six professional wins all over the world including the Australian Open, WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational and Saudi International.
Dean Burmester
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Burmester is having an incredible run of form over the past 12 months and is in the field thanks to his Joburg Open victory on the DP World Tour last year.
He went on to win the South African Open the very next week and also picked up his maiden LIV Golf League win earlier this year in Miami.
This will be his third Open appearance, having also played in 2021 and 2022.
Bryson DeChambeau
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DeChambeau is among the favorites to win the Claret Jug after sealing his second Major win last month, where he hit a sensational bunker shot on the 72nd hole to get up-and-down for par to pip Rory McIlroy by a single stroke.
The American is in The Open for the next five years thanks to that victory – although he was qualified for this year’s championship anyway thanks to his 2020 US Open win.
He is playing the best golf of his career right now and will fancy picking off at least one more Major title over the coming years.
Tyrrell Hatton
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Hatton is another highly fancied to lift the Claret Jug, having recently picked up his first LIV Golf win in Nashville.
The Englishman has an exceptional links record with two victories…
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