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2017 Open Championship

2017 Open Championship
Dates 20–23 July 2017
Location Southport, England
Course(s) Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Organized by The R&A
Tour(s)
Par 70
Length 7,173 yards (6,559 m)
Field 156 players
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The 2017 Open Championship will be the 146th Open Championship, held 20–23 July 2017 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England.
It will be the 10th Open Championship played at Royal Birkdale.

The 2017 Open Championship will be the second to be televised domestically by Sky Sports. In the United States, it will be the second Open Championship to be televised by NBC (Golf Channel's parent network).

The 2017 event will be the tenth Open Championship played at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club. The most recent was in 2008, where Pádraig Harrington successfully defended his 2007 Open Championship title from Carnoustie.

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):

Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.

Mark Calcavecchia, Stewart Cink (2), Darren Clarke (2), Ben Curtis, John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2), Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington (2), Zach Johnson (2,17), Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard, Sandy Lyle, Rory McIlroy (2,3,5,6,10,12,17), Phil Mickelson (2,3,12,17), Mark O'Meara, Louis Oosthuizen (2,5), Henrik Stenson (2,3,5,17), Tiger Woods


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