2024 British Open: Ranking the Top 25 Players at Royal Troon

Top 25 Players at Royal Troon – The best players in the world have gathered in Scotland for the final major of the 2024 season, which is taking place at Royal Troon for the 152nd Open Championship. The last time Troon hosted the Open Championship was in 2016. This event featured a unique matchplay-style final round, with Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson pulling away from the field. Eventually, Stenson emerged victorious over Mickelson on the challenging back-nine to win the Claret Jug.

The course has undergone some changes since the last championship. Royal Troon now ♏measures alm💯ost 7,400 yards from the tips and is a Par-71. The course layout starts with a prevailing downwind for the front nine and becomes longer and more challenging on the back nine, where almost every hole aims for a desired outcome of par.

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Keeping the ball in play and positioning it on the fairway is crucial for success at Royal Troon. The club’s motto is “As much by skill as by strength.” Since missing fairways comes with a high penalty, using the driver recklessly can be risky. Especially in potentially windy conditions, shots with too much height and spin can easily get lost in the deep foot-long fescue rough. A poor angle off the tee can also cause low-binding shots to run through the fairway, resulting in the same outcome. The fairway bunkers, strategically placed around the landing area, pose a significant challenge and can lead to a one-stroke penalty.

Many of the fairways are narrow, and pot bunkers come into play around the landing zones on some holes. The contours of the rolling ground often direct balls toward these bunkers, effectively reducing the apparent size of the landing area. During the 2016 Openℱ, both Stenson💮 and Mickelson opted to use 3-wood or iron off the tee for almost every driving hole.

In these conditions, hitting and holding the small greens is difficult, even with a wedge. Precise accuracy will be crucial in potentially tough conditions. Revetted bunkers protect the narrow front entries of the greens on several holes, particularly the par⭕ 5s, while deep bunkers fortify the sides of the putting surface on other holes.

The greens are a combination of native bentgrass and poa annua and are smaller than those found at other Open rotation courses, averaging only 4,500 square feet per hole. Troon’s greens are typically narrower in the front and larger in the rear, so it’s often better to take an extra club and aim for the center, even when the pins are forward. While the putting surfaces are not as undulating as others, they have subtle movement and can be difficult to hold in firm conditions.

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Ranking the Top 25 Players at Royal Troon

Here are the Rabbit Hole stats and conditions used to create :

(12.5%) SG: Total, Last 12 Months

(10%) SG: Total, Last 2 Years

Scoring Conditions “Difficult” and “Very Difficult”

(10%) SG: Total, Last 5 Years

Links Golf Courses

(7.5%) SG: Ball-Striking, Last 3 Years

Off The Tee Club – Less Than Driver

(7.5%) SG: T2G, Last 3 Years

Missed Fairway Penalty – High

(5%) Driving Accuracy, Last 12 Months

(10%) Distance From The Edge Of The Fairway

(15%) SG: APP, Long and Short-term form

7.5% Last 12 months

7.5% Last 24 Rounds

(7.5%) SG: APP, Last 2 Years

Green Size – Small

(5%) SG: Around The Green, Last 50 Rounds

(5%) Bogey Avoidance

Scoring Conditions “Difficult” and “Very Difficult”

(5%) SG: T2G, Last 3 Years

Windy Conditions (Gusts 19 MPH+)

Final Ranking – Top 25 Players at Royal Troon

1. Scottie Scheffler
2. Collin Morikawa
3. Rory McIlroy
4. Xander Schauffele
5. Corey Conners
6. Ludvig Aberg
7. Viktor Hovland
8. Aaron Rai
9. Tony Finau
10. Tommy Fleetwood
11. Shane Lowry
12. Tom Kim
13. Patrick Cantlay
14. Russell Henley
15. Jon Rahm
16. Hideki Matsuyama
17. Brian Harman
18. Tom Hoge
19. Justin Thomas
20. Alex Noren
21. Si Woo Kim
22. Sungjae Im
23. Tyrrell Hatton
24. Cameron Smith
25. Max Homa

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36. Brooks Koepka

39. Bryson DeChambeau