The Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews have provided exemptions from Regional and Final Qualifying for the 131st Open Golf Championship at The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, Muirfield, July 18-21 to the first seven and anyone tying for seventh place, who are not otherwise exempt, in the top 25 of a cumulative money list taken from all European Tour events from the Volvo PGA Championship up to and including The Barclays Scottish Open.
Bold Type Denotes Already Exempt
1 Anders HANSEN (Den) 528,708.10
2 Colin MONTGOMERIE (Scot) 375,400.46
3 Justin ROSE (Eng) 366,958.38
4 Darren CLARKE (N.Ire) 349,183.50
5 Nick FALDO (Eng) 328,262.60
6 Eduardo ROMERO (Arg) 275,528.40
7 Sergio GARCIA (Sp) 267,272.70
8 Ian POULTER (Eng) 235,833.65
9 Phillip PRICE (Wal) 229,249.16
10 Søren HANSEN (Den) 220,704.64
11 Padraig HARRINGTON (Ire) 176,942.80
12 Carlos RODILES (Sp) 164,903.80
13 Michael CAMPBELL (NZ) 135,774.51
14 Gary EVANS (Eng) 133,209.19
15 Peter LONARD (Aus) 126,317.00
16 Jarrod MOSELEY (Aus) 116,514.80
17 Niclas FASTH (Swe) 95,073.53
18 Paul LAWRIE (Scot) 90,745.23
19 Thomas LEVET (Fr) 88,020.01
20 Raphaël JACQUELIN (Fr) 80,612.54
21 Greg OWEN (Eng) 80,522.68
22 David CARTER (Eng) 76,685.88
23 David GILFORD (Eng) 76,272.62
24 Mark ROE (Eng) 73,566.99
25 Sam TORRANCE (Scot) 72,917.79
26 Barry LANE (Eng) 72,309.17
27 Peter O'MALLEY (Aus) 68,310.65
28 Gregory HAVRET (Fr) 65,012.69
29 Wei-Tze YEH (C.Tai) 63,620.16
30 Thomas BJÖRN (Den) 63,345.61
