Stage set for LIV Golf players at Final Qualifying for The Open Championship

Ten LIV Golf players are chasing one of golf's most coveted prizes Tuesday, June 30th — a spot in the 154th Open Championship field at Royal Birkdale.

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Spread across three of the four Final Qualifying venues, they'll each need to survive 36 holes of links golf for the chance to compete for the Claret Jug, with five qualifying places up for grabs at each site.

BURNHAM & BERROW

Renowned as one of the finest links layouts in England, the Championship Course at Burnham & Berrow will once more play host to Final Qualifying for The 154th Open. Three LIV Golf players will tee it up in Somerset looking to punch their tickets to Merseyside.

Caleb Surratt arrives at Burnham & Berrow with experience coming through final qualifying. The Legion XIII young gun came through a grueling six-for-one playoff at the U.S. Open qualifier at Dallas Athletic Club, surviving the chaos to claim the final spot and earn the first major start of his career. He made the most of it, too, making the cut at Shinnecock Hills. Now he's back in another qualifier, looking to add a second major championship appearance to his summer schedule.

Anirban Lahiri has quietly been one of the most resilient members of the Crushers GC roster throughout his LIV Golf tenure. He has not made a start in The Open Championship since 2017.

Marc Leishman is perhaps the most compelling story at this venue. The Australian came agonizingly close to lifting the Claret Jug in a playoff 11 years ago at the Old Course at St Andrews, where he shot a 64 in the third round and a 66 in the final round to finish tied for first with Zach Johnson and Southern Guards GC Captain Louis Oosthuizen before the four-hole playoff slipped away from him. He followed that near-miss with a T6 finish at Royal Birkdale two years later — the very course he's now trying to reach. Leishman knows this championship intimately. He knows what it feels like to be this close to the Claret Jug. A return to Birkdale would mean a great deal to him.

ROYAL CINQUE PORTS

Royal Cinque Ports carries a long history of hosting Open qualifying and the venue hosted The Open in 1909 and 1920. Five LIV Golf players headline a loaded field at the Kent links.

Thomas Detry enters this qualifier carrying unfinished business from the major season. The Belgian 4Aces GC star was eliminated in heartbreaking fashion at U.S. Open qualifying at Walton Heath in May after finishing fourth in a playoff. Detry has been one of the standout performers on LIV Golf in 2026, sitting sixth in the season-long standings, and his play feels deserving of another major championship start.

Peter Uihlein should be carrying some confidence into this qualifier. Earlier this year, Uihlein took medalist honors at the U.S. Open qualifier — posting rounds of 67-66 to finish at the top of the leaderboard and claiming one of nine available spots, his first major start since 2018. The RangeGoats Golf Club standout then made the cut at Shinnecock Hills. Uihlein now finds himself with a chance to play in two consecutive majors.

Dean Burmester knows this venue better than most. The South African was the medalist at Royal Cinque Ports at last year's Open qualifying. The Southern Guards GC star is an aggressive player with the length and skill to attack a links layout, and familiarity with the course should prove useful.

Branden Grace lines up alongside his Southern Guards teammate in Kent. Grace has had a consistent season on LIV Golf and brings experience across major championship settings. He was in the field at U.S. Open qualifying earlier this summer and will look to convert here after that near-miss. Grace famously shot a 62 at Royal Birkdale in the third round of the 2017 Open Championship — still one of the great rounds in major history. Getting back to Birkdale clearly means something to him. Grace withdrew from last week’s Open D’Italia so his status is worth monitoring heading into Tuesday.

Luis Masaveu, the 23-year-old Spanish member of Fireballs GC, rounds out the LIV Golf contingent at Royal Cinque Ports. The young Spaniard has been developing steadily since joining the league and will relish the challenge of competing at a venue with this kind of history.

WEST LANCASHIRE

West Lancashire provided one of the standout moments of Final Qualifying in 2025 when Richard Teder holed out from distance to win a playoff and become the first Estonian to reach The Open. Two Fireballs GC teammates will chase their own moments of drama on England's Golf Coast.

Sergio Garcia has played here many times. The Fireballs GC captain has played 24 successive Opens and carries one of the game’s longest relationships with this championship among active players. He has two second-place finishes at The Open, in 2007 and 2014, and he is aiming to make his 27th appearance this summer.

Josele Ballester, Garcia's Fireballs GC teammate, makes the trip to West Lancashire looking to make the first major championship splash of his young career. Still carving out his place among LIV Golf's best, the young Spaniard has shown flashes of a game that could thrive in links conditions. He missed out at U.S. Open qualifying in Dallas earlier in the summer and will look to improve upon that result this week.

IN THE FIELD

Here are the full-time LIV Golf players already in the field and scheduled to compete at The 154th Open: Jon Rahm (Legion XIII), Bryson DeChambeau (Crushers), Joaquin Niemann (Torque), Tyrrell Hatton (Legion XIII), Scott Vincent (HyFlyers GC), Cameron Smith (Ripper), Lucas Herbert (Ripper), Tom McKibbin (Legion XIII), Louis Oosthuizen (Southern Guards), Laurie Canter (Majesticks GC) and Elvis Smylie (Ripper)

FOLLOW FINAL QUALIFYING

The 154th Open Championship takes place at Royal Birkdale from July 16–19. For the first time, the latter stages of Final Qualifying will be broadcast live on The R&A's YouTube channel, with live scoring, FQ Radio and a live blog available across all four venues on The Open website.