23 Australasians line up for Open Qualifying
IN: News | European PGA | British Open (2005) | General | 26 Jun 2005
A record twenty three Australasian players lined up at last year's Open Championship and there is a good chance that Australasia will break that record for the second year running, next week. With fourteen players already exempt into the 134th Open Championship, to be held at St Andrews from July 14-17, a further twenty three players will line up for International Final Qualifying (IFQ) tomorrow.
Already this year, record fields of Australasians have lined up at the Majors, with eight players lining up at the US Masters and fifteen players at last week's US Open.
Monday's IFQ will be played in two locations, at Sunningdale England and Canoe Brook, New Jersey, U.S. The field at each course will be 120 players with at least twelve players from each venue qualifying directly into The Open Championship.
Australasian players taking part in IFQ in New Jersey are: Steven Alker (NZL), Steven Allan, Robert Allenby, Aaron Baddeley, Steve Elkington, Scott Hend, Matthew Jones, Stephen Leaney, Michael Long, John Senden, Geoff Ogilvy and Tim Wilkinson (NZL).
Australasians playing in Sunningdale England are: Marcus Fraser, Adam Groom, Brad Kennedy, Jarrod Moseley, Peter O'Malley, Wade Ormsby, Gareth Paddison, Terry Price, Brett Rumford, Stephen Scahill (NZL) and Peter Senior.
Stuart Appleby, David Diaz, Martin Doyle, Nick Flanagan, Peter Fowler, Richard Green, Mark Hensby, Peter Lonard, Richard Moir, Greg Norman, Nick O'Hern, Rod Pampling, Craig Parry, Adam Scott and Euan Walters are the fifteen players already exempt into The Open.
International Final Qualifying (IFQ) events for The Open Championship are held on five continents, giving more players from around the world the chance to gain direct entry into The Open. IFQ events have been played in Africa, Asia and Australasia so far this year with the final events to be held in the USA and Europe on Monday.
The IFQ's in Africa, Asia and Australasia had four qualifying places. Those in America and Europe will have tweleve places.
The starting field for the Open will be 156.
Source - PGA Tour
