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2026 The Open Championship – Picks by Group

Group Player Times Selected
1 Jon Rahm 2
1 Rory McIlroy 28
1 Scottie Scheffler 29
2 Matt Fitzpatrick 36
2 Russell Henley 4
2 Tommy Fleetwood 19
3 Collin Morikawa 18
3 Sam Burns 15
3 Xander Schauffele 26
4 Cameron Young 27
4 Ludvig Aberg 28
4 Patrick Cantlay 4
5 J.J. Spaun 2
5 Si Woo Kim 10
5 Viktor Hovland 28
5 Wyndham Clark 19
6 Ben Griffin 3
6 Bryson DeChambeau 6
6 Justin Thomas 7
6 Robert MacIntyre 43
7 Chris Gotterup 27
7 Harris English 1
7 Justin Rose 30
7 Maverick McNealy 1
8 Akshay Bhatia 5
8 Kurt Kitayama 4
8 Shane Lowry 16
8 Tyrrell Hatton 34
9 Aaron Rai 32
9 Alex Noren 9
9 Hideki Matsuyama 12
9 Jake Knapp 2
9 Keegan Bradley 4
10 Adam Scott 12
10 Joaquin Niemann 21
10 Nicolai Hojgaard 14
10 Rickie Fowler 8
10 Ryan Gerard 4
11 Alex Fitzpatrick 15
11 Bud Cauley 2
11 Jacob Bridgeman 3
11 Min Woo Lee 20
11 Patrick Reed 19
12 David Puig 3
12 Harry Hall 12
12 Keith Mitchell 11
12 Kristoffer Reitan 27
12 Nick Taylor 6
13 Alex Smalley 2
13 Corey Conners 15
13 Eric Cole 3
13 J.T. Poston 6
13 Jordan Spieth 25
13 Sahith Theegala 8
14 Brian Harman 23
14 Brooks Koepka 21
14 Gary Woodland 2
14 Jason Day 3
14 Matt Wallace 5
14 Ryan Fox 5
15 Angel Ayora 1
15 Daniel Berger 10
15 Eugenio Chacarra 20
15 Michael Kim 14
15 Pierceson Coody 3
15 Thomas Detry 11
16 Daniel Hillier 1
16 Matt McCarty 0
16 Max Homa 6
16 Michael Thorbjornsen 8
16 Sam Stevens 5
16 Sepp Straka 8
16 Tom Kim 31
17 Andrew Novak 1
17 Cameron Smith 10
17 Jayden Schaper 1
17 John Parry 4
17 Jordan Smith 8
17 Lucas Herbert 1
17 Marco Penge 8
17 Max Greyserman 3
17 Michael Brennan 3
17 Nico Echavarria 1
17 Rasmus Hojgaard 2
17 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen 2
17 Ryo Hisatsune 7
17 Scott Vincent 0
17 Sungjae Im 6
17 Victor Perez 2
18 Aldrich Potgieter 8
18 Antoine Rozner 0
18 Bernd Wiesberger 2
18 Billy Horschel 7
18 Casey Jarvis 2
18 Dan Bradbury 0
18 Dan Brown 0
18 Haotong Li 14
18 Hennie Du Plessis 3
18 Jackson Suber 3
18 Jesper Svensson 3
18 Johnny Keefer 7
18 Jose Luis Ballester 1
18 Keita Nakajima 4
18 Kota Kaneko 0
18 Sami Valimaki 0
18 Tom McKibbin 5
19 Adrien Saddier 4
19 Alistair Docherty 1
19 Andy Sullivan 11
19 Caleb Surratt 1
19 Francesco Laporta 5
19 Joakim Lagergren 1
19 Joe Dean 2
19 Kazuki Higa 0
19 Kazuma Kobori 1
19 Laurie Canter 12
19 Martin Couvra 0
19 Matthew Jordan 13
19 Peter Uihlein 5
19 Ren Yonezawa 1
19 Shaun Norris 1
19 Travis Smyth 1
20 Austen Truslow 0
20 Bard Bjoernevikl Skogen 1
20 Cameron John 0
20 Frederic LaCroix 9
20 Jack McDonald 3
20 James Nicholas 11
20 Jeong Woo Ham 0
20 Jiho Yang 1
20 MJ Daffue 3
20 Marcus Plunkett 1
20 Matthew Baldwin 9
20 Matthew Southgate 12
20 Michael Hollick 3
20 Naoyuki Kataoka 0
20 Ryutaro Nagano 1
20 Sam Bairstow 2
20 Thomas Sloman 0
20 Tiger Christensen 3
21 Darren Clarke 0
21 David Duval 1
21 Francesco Molinari 14
21 Henrik Stenson 6
21 Louis Oosthuizen W/D 0
21 Padraig Harrington 21
21 Stewart Cink 17
22 Alejandro De Castro Piera 13
22 David Howard 4
22 Fifa Laopakdee 2
22 Jack Buchanan 2
22 Liv Grinberg 2
22 Mason Howell 20
22 Mateo Pulcini 5
22 Nevill Ruiter 0
22 Stuart Grehan 5
22 Tim Wiedemeyer 6