Open qualifier fails to attract full field

A FIELD of just 44 will be chasing three places in July’s Open Championship at St Andrews today and Friday.

The 36-hole international qualifying event at Kingston Heath in Melbourne could have catered for 78 players and was open to anyone with world ranking points.

But 42 Australians and two New Zealanders are the only ones to have entered.

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They include 50-year-old Peter Senior and 44-year-old Craig Parry, both of whom have come fourth in previous Opens, plus the trio who made it through 12 months ago – Michael Wright, Tim Wood and Kiwi Josh Geary.

Like Tiger Woods, Geary missed the cut at Turnberry by just a single stroke. Wood failed by six and Wright by 12.

The next qualifier is in South Africa next Wednesday and Thursday and that features 51 seeking three spots.

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