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) 374,342.15
3 Justin ROSE (Eng) 366,958.38
4 Darren CLARKE (N.Ire) 298,978.20
5 Eduardo ROMERO (Arg) 275,528.40
6 Ian POULTER (Eng) 235,833.65
7 Phillip PRICE (Wal) 229,249.16
8 Søren HANSEN (Den) 220,704.64
9 Carlos RODILES (Sp) 164,903.80
10 Nick FALDO (Eng) 134,716.20
Michael CAMPBELL (NZ) 134,716.20
12 Gary EVANS (Eng) 133,209.19
13 Jarrod MOSELEY (Aus) 116,514.80
14 Raphaël JACQUELIN (Fr) 80,612.54
15 Greg OWEN (Eng) 80,522.68
16 David CARTER (Eng) 76,685.88
17 David GILFORD (Eng) 76,272.62
18 Mark ROE (Eng) 73,566.99
19 Sam TORRANCE (Scot) 72,917.79
20 Barry LANE (Eng) 72,309.17
21 Peter O'MALLEY (Aus) 67,252.34
22 Niclas FASTH (Swe) 66,728.74
23 Gregory HAVRET (Fr) 65,012.69
24 Wei-Tze YEH (C.Tai) 63,620.16
25 Nick DOUGHERTY (Eng) 61,341.37
26 Sandy LYLE (Scot) 61,299.78
27 John BICKERTON (Eng) 58,716.12
28 Peter BAKER (Eng) 56,267.73
29 Fredrik ANDERSSON (Swe) 54,900.03
30 Roger WESSELS (SA) 54,541.72
31 Maarten LAFEBER (Hol) 53,135.69
Stephen LEANEY (Aus) 53,135.69
33 Paul LAWRIE (Scot) 53,028.02
34 Greg TURNER (NZ) 43,777.46
35 Bradley DREDGE (Wal) 43,064.80
36 Steen TINNING (Den) 39,941.51
37 Ignacio GARRIDO (Sp) 38,363.95
38 Jamie SPENCE (Eng) 38,276.91
39 Sam WALKER (Eng) 37,584.48
40 Trevor IMMELMAN (SA) 37,325.23
