Tournaments / 2026
The Open Championship
2026-07-16 · Royal Birkdale Golf Club
- Winner
- Ryan Fox
- Winning score
- -10
- Field
- 151
- Field strength
- +0.488 SG
The 2026 The Open Championship was played at Royal Birkdale Golf Club, starting 16 July 2026. Ryan Fox won at 10 under par (270), 1 stroke ahead of Cameron Young. The winning card was 72, 68, 62 and 68, and the win paid $3,200,000. Cameron Young finished second, and Sam Burns was third. 151 players started the event. The field averaged +0.488 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 54% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 151. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Ryan Fox
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 62
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 270
- Cameron Young
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 271
- Sam Burns
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 272
- Scottie Scheffler
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Casey Jarvis
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 274
- Lucas Herbert
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 274
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 274
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
- Ludvig Åberg
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 275
- Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
- Ryan Gerard
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 275
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 276
- Corey Conners
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Sungjae Im
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
- Bud Cauley
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
- Chris Gotterup
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 78 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.325
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 22.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (50th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.
Who the model liked
Its top 10, and where they finished.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Scottie Scheffler | 1st | 4th |
| Rory McIlroy | 2nd | 40th |
| Collin Morikawa | 3rd | 18th |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 4th | 4th |
| Russell Henley | 5th | 9th |
| Sam Burns | 6th | 3rd |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 7th | 69th |
| Si Woo Kim | 8th | 6th |
| Patrick Cantlay | 9th | 28th |
| Xander Schauffele | 10th | 18th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Lucas Herbert | 76th | 6th(−70) |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 7th | 69th(+62) |
| Casey Jarvis | 65th | 6th(−59) |
| Dan Brown | 75th | 18th(−57) |
| Keegan Bradley | 20th | 74th(+54) |
| Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen | 59th | 9th(−50) |
| Marco Penge | 67th | 18th(−49) |
| Alex Fitzpatrick | 24th | 71st(+47) |
| Justin Thomas | 19th | 65th(+46) |
| Kazuma Kobori | 72nd | 28th(−44) |
One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.
This event in the model
OTIS ranks every field on how well each player's game matches the course, then prices their chances. Both are published in full and graded afterwards.
This week's modelProbabilities and the track recordHow the model works
The venue
This event was played at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, ENG. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
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Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where no value was published, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.