Augusta National Golf Club and The R&A on Tuesday announced jointly a plan to align aspects of the qualifying criteria for their acclaimed tournaments, the Masters and The Open. Beginning in 2026, ...

July 1 - The R&A is adopting a last-chance qualifier to pit a maximum of 12 players in a playoff for a final spot in the 2026 Open Championship next year at Royal Birkdale. Mimicking the once-popular ...

For decades, the field for The Open has been populated largely through a mixture of exemptions, previous champions, top-ranked players, recent big-tournament winners, and a set of international and ...

The Masters has updated its qualification criteria to include winners of several national opens while eliminating exemptions for winners of PGA Tour fall events. The new list of pathways into the ...