Blustering weather and a punishing coastal links track have combined to serve up the ultimate test for the game’s best golfers at this week’s Open Championship.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Former Arkansas golfer Jacob Skov Olesen sits atop the leaderboard at one of the most prestigious golf tournaments in the world. A 4-under 67 in the opening round at the 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush puts Olesen in a tie for first with four other players.

The PGA Tour's Open Championship begins on Thursday in Scotland, where the top players on tour will compete at the Royal Portrush Golf Club's Dunluce Course.

The Open Championship takes place July 17-20 at Royal Portrush in Portrush, Northern Ireland. Here’s a look at the full field and how they qualified based on the R&A’s order of exemption criteria (several players would have qualified via multiple categories; a = amateur).

Beach City’s Grant Doggett shot a 5-under-par 67 at BraeBurn Country Club in Houston Monday, to earn a spot at the 2025 U.S. Amateur Championship.

An Alabama golfer is headed to one of the most prestigious events at his level of the sport. Crimson Tide rising sophomore Nick Gross qualified for the 2025 U.S. Amateur Championship after firing a bogey-free 68 on July 14, the university announced Monday. The tournament will be held from August 11-17 at The Olympic Club in San Francisco.

When some of the best male amateur golfers on the planet come to this country for the 120th edition of the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship, presented by BDO, they’ll have the opportunity to tee it up at one of Canada’s most storied layouts.

Final round play at the 95th NYS Women’s Amateur and 16th Women’s Mid-Amateur wrapped up on Tuesday at St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Long Island.

Top-ranked amateur Lottie Woad is living up to her pre-tournament billing and in contention at the halfway point of the Evian Championship.

West Virginia sophomore and 2024 Penn-Trafford graduate Nick Turowski qualified for the U.S. Amateur Championship in San Francisco by placing third in the final local qualifying at The Club at P.B. Dye in Ijamsville,