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153rd Open Championship

Tournament information
Dates	17–20 July 2025
Location	Portrush, 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 by	The R&A
Tours	DP World Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	7,381 yards (6,749 m)
Field	156 players, 70 after cut
Cut	143 (+1)
Prize fund	$17,000,000[1]
Winner's share	$3,100,000
Champion
Scottie Scheffler
267 (−17)
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The 2025 Open Championship, officially the 153rd Open Championship, was a golf tournament played from 17–20 July 2025 at Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The third Open Championship to be held at Portrush, it was the fourth of the four men's major golf championships held in 2025.

Scottie Scheffler recorded four sub-70 rounds, for a total of 267, to win his first Open and fourth major by four strokes over Harris English.^[2]

The 2025 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 (4 rounds) stroke play competition held over four days, with 18 holes played each day. Play will be 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 organizers, with each group having one morning and one afternoon tee time. On the final two days, players will tee off in reverse order of aggregate score, with the leaders last. After 36 holes there will be 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 three-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.^[3]

The 2025 event was the third Open Championship played at Royal Portrush; the club had previously hosted in 1951 and 2019.

Dunluce Links – Championship tees

The Open Championship field is made up of 156 players, who gained entry through various exemption criteria and qualifying tournaments. The criteria include 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, can gain entry through regional and final qualifying events.^{[citation needed]}

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Two-time Open champion Pádraig Harrington hit the opening tee shot at 6:35 a.m. and made the first birdie of the championship by holing an 18-foot putt on the first hole. He ultimately shot a four-over 75.^[5] The afternoon half of the draw had more favourable conditions, with a 72.4 scoring average, around 1.3 strokes easier than those in the morning draw.^[6]

Five players shot 67 to share the lead by one shot: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Harris English, Matt Fitzpatrick, Li Haotong and Jacob Skov Olesen.^[7] The five-way tie for first was the largest since the 1938 Open Championship, when six players shared the first-round lead.^[6]

World number one Scottie Scheffler shot a three-under-par 68. Rory McIlroy, born in nearby Holywood, 2019 champion Shane Lowry, and Genesis Scottish Open champion Chris Gotterup each shot a one-under-par 70, which ended up in a tie for 20th place.

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	67	−4
	Harris English
	Matt Fitzpatrick
	Li Haotong
	Jacob Skov Olesen
T6	Tyrrell Hatton	68	−3
	Matthew Jordan
	Sadom Kaewkanjana
	Scottie Scheffler
T10	Rickie Fowler	69	−2
	Lucas Glover
	Brian Harman
	Nicolai Højgaard
	Rasmus Højgaard
	Tom Kim
	Maverick McNealy
	Aaron Rai
	Justin Rose
	Lee Westwood

Friday, 18 July 2025

Scottie Scheffler shot the low round of the week to that point with a seven-under-par 64 to take the lead by one shot over Matt Fitzpatrick. Scheffler became the first world number one to hold the 36-hole lead at the Open Championship since Tiger Woods in 2006.^[8] 2023 champion Brian Harman shot a bogey-free six-under-par 65 to sit two shots back of the lead alongside first round co-leader Li Haotong.^[9]

Exactly 70 players made the cut in the top 70 and ties format. The cutline was 143 (+1), the same mark as the previous playing of the event at Royal Portrush in 2019. Notables to miss the cut included 2021 champion Collin Morikawa, 2022 champion Cameron Smith, and 5-time major champion Brooks Koepka.^[10] None of the nine amateurs in the field made the cut, which meant that the silver medal would not be awarded for the first time since 2019.^[11]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Scottie Scheffler	68–64=132	−10
2	Matt Fitzpatrick	67–66=133	−9
T3	Brian Harman	69–65=134	−8
	Li Haotong	67–67=134
T5	Harris English	67–70=137	−5
	Chris Gotterup	72–65=137
	Tyrrell Hatton	68–69=137
	Rasmus Højgaard	69–68=137
	Robert MacIntyre	71–66=137
T10	Tony Finau	70–68=138	−4
	Nicolai Højgaard	69–69=138

Saturday, 19 July 2025

Scottie Scheffler, who was looking to win his second major of the season, shot a bogey-free, four-under 67 and established a four-shot lead. This was Scheffler's fourth 54-hole lead in a major championship; he had converted each of the previous three into wins.^[12] Li Haotong, who was ranked 111th in the Official World Golf Ranking entering the week, shot two-under 69 to put himself in solo-second heading into the final round. 2022 U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick shot even-par 71 to fall into third place.^[13]

Rory McIlroy shot five-under 66 to put himself into a tie for fourth place. On the 11th hole of his round, he hit a shot out of the rough which revealed a hidden ball buried beneath his ball. He ultimately bogied the 11th, but bounced back with a 56-foot eagle putt on the par-5 12th.^[14] Harris English, Chris Gotterup and Tyrrell Hatton all shot rounds of three-under 68 to join McIlroy in fourth place. Defending champion Xander Schauffele shot five-under 66 to sit in eighth place. Brian Harman made a double-bogey on his first hole en route to a two-over 73. Twin brothers Nicolai Højgaard and Rasmus Højgaard also tied for ninth place entering the final round, at six-under-par for the tournament.^[15]

John Parry recorded an ace on the 13th hole. It was the first hole-in-one made by any player in the tournament.^[16] The scoring average was 69.97, as the winds were calm and the greens had been softened by rain in the previous days. This was first round of the Open Championship with a scoring average below 70 since the final round of the 2022 Open Championship (69.67).^[12]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Scottie Scheffler	68–64–67=199	−14
2	Li Haotong	67–67–69=203	−10
3	Matt Fitzpatrick	67–66–71=204	−9
T4	Harris English	67–70–68=205	−8
	Chris Gotterup	72–65–68=205
	Tyrrell Hatton	68–69–68=205
	Rory McIlroy	70–69–66=205
8	Xander Schauffele	71–69–66=206	−7
T9	Brian Harman	69–65–73=207	−6
	Russell Henley	72–70–65=207
	Nicolai Højgaard	69–69–69=207
	Rasmus Højgaard	69–68–70=207
	Robert MacIntyre	71–66–70=207

Sunday, 20 July 2025

Scottie Scheffler shot his fourth consecutive round in the 60s with a three-under 68 to maintain his four-shot advantage and win his first Open Championship and second major championship of the year.^[2]

Scheffler, who began the round four ahead of Haotong Li, hit his approach on the par-4 first hole to within two feet for a birdie. He made two more birdies on the front-nine and led by as many as seven shots before finding a bunker off the tee on the eighth hole. His second shot hit the lip and stayed in the bunker, and Scheffler ended up with a double bogey, his first bogey or worse since the 11th hole in the second round, to see his lead cut to four.

Scheffler responded by hitting his approach shot within five feet on the ninth hole for a birdie, taking a five-shot lead into the back-nine. He then got up-and-down from off the green for another birdie on the par-5 12th to reach 17-under and made par on his last six holes.^[17]

No one could get closer to four shots during the round. Scheffler's playing partner, Li, bogeyed two of his first four holes. Five players were tied for second place at 10-under at one point on the front-nine. Chris Gotterup made birdie at the ninth to reach 11-under, while Li made a 27-foot putt from off the green for birdie at the 11th. Gotterup also birdied the 12th, while Harris English holed a 33-foot eagle putt on the same hole to reach 11-under.^[18]

English also made a 42-foot birdie putt at the par-3 16th, then birdied the 17th to shoot a five-under 66 and finish at 13-under for the tournament, the second time he had finished runner-up to Scheffler in a major during the year. Gotterup, who only got into the tournament by winning the Genesis Scottish Open the previous week and was playing on his 26th birthday, parred his last five holes to finish at 12-under and alone in third place.^[19]

Li double-bogeyed the 14th before birdies at the 15th and 17th brought him back to 11-under and a tie for fourth place with Wyndham Clark and Matt Fitzpatrick. Hometown favorite Rory McIlroy was two-under on his front-nine and tied for second until a double bogey at the 10th. He rebounded with two more birdies for a two-under round of 69 and ended up at 10-under, in a tie for seventh place.^[20][21]

Bryson DeChambeau shot a final round 64, tying the best round of the tournament. DeChambeau finished in a tie for tenth.^[22]

Top 10

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Scottie Scheffler	68–64–67–68=267	−17	3,100,000
2	Harris English	67–70–68–66=271	−13	1,759,000
3	Chris Gotterup	72–65–68–67=272	−12	1,128,000
T4	Wyndham Clark	76–66–66–65=273	−11	730,667
	Matt Fitzpatrick	67–66–71–69=273
	Li Haotong	67–67–69–70=273
T7	Robert MacIntyre	71–66–70–67=274	−10	451,833
	Rory McIlroy (c)	70–69–66–69=274
	Xander Schauffele (c)	71–69–66–68=274
T10	Corey Conners	74–69–66–66=275	−9	304,650
	Bryson DeChambeau	78–65–68–64=275
	Brian Harman (c)	69–65–73–68=275
	Russell Henley	72–70–65–68=275

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T14	Rickie Fowler	69–72–70–65=276	−8	240,000
	Nicolai Højgaard	69–69–69–69=276
T16	Tommy Fleetwood	73–68–69–67=277	−7	185,257
	Tyrrell Hatton	68–69–68–72=277
	Rasmus Højgaard	69–68–70–70=277
	Hideki Matsuyama	74–69–68–66=277
	John Parry	72–71–67–67=277
	Justin Rose	69–71–68–69=277
	Jesper Svensson	71–72–68–66=277
T23	Ludvig Åberg	73–67–68–70=278	−6	138,040
	Lucas Glover	69–72–68–69=278
	Dustin Johnson	73–69–67–69=278
	Maverick McNealy	69–74–69–66=278
	J. J. Spaun	73–69–68–68=278
T28	Harry Hall	73–67–68–71=279	−5	119,950
	Oliver Lindell	72–68–68–71=279
T30	Daniel Berger	72–70–70–68=280	−4	104,850
	Akshay Bhatia	73–68–70–69=280
	Keegan Bradley	72–67–70–71=280
	Kristoffer Reitan	72–68–68–72=280
T34	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	67–73–69–72=281	−3	86,517
	Sergio García	70–73–70–68=281
	Jon Rahm	70–72–69–70=281
	Aaron Rai	69–72–71–69=281
	Justin Thomas	72–69–69–71=281
	Lee Westwood	69–70–69–73=281
T40	Takumi Kanaya	71–72–69–70=282	−2	68,340
	Nathan Kimsey	71–72–68–71=282
	Jason Kokrak	71–70–71–70=282
	Shane Lowry (c)	70–72–74–66=282
	Jordan Spieth (c)	73–69–72–68=282
T45	Sam Burns	70–69–72–72=283	−1	50,463
	Thomas Detry	72–71–70–70=283
	Matthew Jordan	68–72–73–70=283
	Thriston Lawrence	73–70–68–72=283
	Jordan Smith	71–68–72–72=283
	Henrik Stenson (c)	75–68–69–71=283
	Matt Wallace	73–69–66–75=283
T52	Im Sung-jae	71–71–67–75=284	E	44,000
	Marc Leishman	73–68–68–75=284
	Adrien Saddier	72–71–72–69=284
	Sepp Straka	72–71–70–71=284
T56	Tony Finau	70–68–72–75=285	+1	42,333
	Phil Mickelson (c)	70–72–76–67=285
	Jhonattan Vegas	72–70–70–73=285
T59	Justin Leonard (c)	70–73–70–73=286	+2	41,550
	Antoine Rozner	72–70–73–71=286
T61	Dean Burmester	71–71–76–69=287	+3	41,100
	Romain Langasque	71–71–72–73=287
T63	Viktor Hovland	73–69–73–73=288	+4	40,280
	Ryggs Johnston	74–66–74–74=288
	Riki Kawamoto	72–70–78–68=288
	Francesco Molinari (c)	72–71–71–74=288
	Andrew Novak	71–72–74–71=288
68	Jacob Skov Olesen	67–76–73–74=290	+6	39,400
69	Matti Schmid	73–70–79–70=292	+8	39,100
70	Sebastian Söderberg	73–70–75–77=295	+11	38,900
CUT	Jason Day	73–71=144	+2
	Ryan Fox	75–69=144
	Ben Griffin	74–70=144
	Daniel Hillier	71–73=144
	Rikuya Hoshino	74–70=144
	Matteo Manassero	73–71=144
	Joaquín Niemann	70–74=144
	Justin Suh	73–71=144
	Cameron Adam (a)	73–72=145	+3
	John Axelsen	70–75=145
	George Bloor	73–72=145
	Brian Campbell	73–72=145
	Patrick Cantlay	73–72=145
	Ethan Fang (a)	75–70=145
	Max Greyserman	78–67=145
	Julien Guerrier	73–72=145
	Ángel Hidalgo	70–75=145
	Zach Johnson (c)	70–75=145
	Kim Si-woo	74–71=145
	Tom Kim	69–76=145
	Denny McCarthy	74–71=145
	Matt McCarty	71–74=145
	Tom McKibbin	72–73=145
	Carlos Ortiz	75–70=145
	Taylor Pendrith	75–70=145
	Elvis Smylie	75–70=145
	Nick Taylor	77–68=145
	Kevin Yu	79–66=145
	John Catlin	78–68=146	+4
	Stewart Cink (c)	75–71=146
	Nico Echavarría	72–74=146
	O. J. Farrell	74–72=146
	Lucas Herbert	74–72=146
	Michael Kim	74–72=146
	Dylan Naidoo	74–72=146
	Niklas Nørgaard	77–69=146
	Thorbjørn Olesen	72–74=146
	Marco Penge	74–72=146
	Jesper Sandborg	72–74=146
	Song Young-han	73–73=146
	Cameron Young	74–72=146
	Daniel Young	75–71=146
	An Byeong-hun	76–71=147	+5
	Bud Cauley	72–75=147
	Sadom Kaewkanjana	68–79=147
	Chris Kirk	73–74=147
	Min Woo Lee	74–73=147
	Shaun Norris	72–75=147
	Matthieu Pavon	76–71=147
	Aldrich Potgieter	70–77=147
	Patrick Reed	77–70=147
	Laurie Canter	74–74=148	+6
	Darren Clarke (c)	75–73=148
	Justin Hastings (a)	74–74=148
	Stephan Jäger	72–76=148
	Filip Jakubčík (a)	75–73=148
	Curtis Knipes	73–75=148
	Louis Oosthuizen (c)	77–71=148
	Davis Thompson	73–75=148
	Dan Brown	76–73=149	+7
	Darren Fichardt	78–71=149
	Mackenzie Hughes	79–70=149
	Brooks Koepka	75–74=149
	Collin Morikawa (c)	75–74=149
J. T. Poston	72–77=149
Sahith Theegala	75–74=149
Frazer Jones (a)	77–73=150	+8
Curtis Luck	80–70=150
Ryan Peake	77–73=150
Cameron Smith (c)	72–78=150
Richard Teder (a)	74–76=150
Justin Walters	73–77=150
Sampson Zheng	77–73=150
Mikiya Akutsu	78–73=151	+9
Martin Couvra	78–73=151
Pádraig Harrington (c)	75–76=151
Shugo Imahira	76–75=151
Davis Riley	77–74=151
Adam Scott	72–79=151
Connor Graham (a)	73–79=152	+10
Sebastian Cave (a)	76–77=153	+11
Tom Hoge	81–73=154	+12
Guido Migliozzi	77–77=154
K. J. Choi	81–74=155	+13
Daniel van Tonder	79–77=156	+14
Bryan Newman (a)	82–75=157	+15

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
Scheffler	−15	−15	−15	−16	−17	−17	−17	−15	−16	−16	−16	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17
English	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−9	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−13	−13
Gotterup	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12
Clark	−5	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−7	−8	−7	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11
Fitzpatrick	−9	−9	−8	−8	−9	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−10	−11	−11
Li	−11	−10	−10	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−10	−11	−11	−11	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par^[15]

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

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