The DP World Tour returns to Scotland for the much-loved Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, where the Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns will play centre stage.
The Home of Golf served up the finest drama when it hosted the 150th Open Championship just a few short months ago, when Cameron Smith chased down Rory McIlroy to secure his maiden Major title. It proved to be a pivotal moment in the Australian's career, with his switch to the Greg Norman-fronted LIV Golf Series finalised shortly after.
For McIlroy, it marked eight years since his last Major success. Although a concern on the face of it, the Northern Irishman posted top-3 finishes at the Masters and Open Championship alongside a T5 at the US Open and solo eighth at the PGA Championship; rising to World No.2 in the process.
The 33-year-old headlines the field this week and will be joined by recently-crowned US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick. With his victory at the Country Club in Brookline, the Englishman joined Jack Nicklaus as the only player to win the US Amateur and US Open at the same venue.
Fitzpatrick followed his Major success with a T6 finish at the Scottish Open, T5 at the FedEx St. Jude Championship and a second place finish at the Italian Open. The 28-year-old's form has catapulted him to a career high 10th in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Francesco Molinari will make a return to Carnoustie, the scene of his 2018 Open Championship victory. With a T15 at the Open Championship at St Andrews and T9 at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, the Italian is looking to build on his form as he targets a return to the Ryder Cup team in Rome.
Billy Horschel will tee it up in Europe for the second time in three weeks and will do so having played a key role in the United States Presidents Cup victory at Quail Hollow. The American formed an electric partnership with Max Homa as team USA resisted a spirited fightback to win the Presidents Cup.
The name on the lips of many this week is two-time Dunhill Links champion Tyrrell Hatton. The Englishman won by four in 2016 and successfully defended his title with a convincing three-shot victory. He looked set to make it a hattrick in 2018 but finished second having held the overnight lead. It was a similar story last year, with the 30-year-old leading the way at the halfway stage before being pipped by Danny Willett.
Willett is looking to become the first player since Hatton to defend the title, fresh from an agonising second place finish at the Fortinet Championship. The Englishman three-putted for bogey from inside 4 feet on the final green at Silverado Resort after Max Homa chipped in for birdie moments earlier. The unsuspected two-shot swing handed the American victory in the PGA Tour season opener in California.
Former Masters champion and LIV Golf defector Patrick Reed was set to tee it up this week but was forced to withdraw after reportedly developing a bad back caused by an unsupportive mattress at last week's French Open. Fellow LIV Golf member Talor Gooch will be joined by 2010 Open champion Louis Oosthuizen and fellow South Africans Charl Schwartzel, Shaun Norris and Branden Grace.
Richard Bland, Laurie Canter, Peter Uihlein and Jed Morgan round out the final LIV players that will compete at three of the best golf courses in Scotland.
2022 ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD
- Jaco Ahlers
- Thomas Aiken
- Maverick Antcliff
- Kiradech Aphibarnrat
- Marcus Armitage
- Josh Armstrong
- Adri Arnaus
- Zheng-Kai Bai
- Nathan Barbieri
- Austin Bautista
- Oliver Bekker
- Lucas Bjerregaard
- Thomas Bjørn
- Richard Bland
- Kristoffer Broberg
- Steven Brown
- Julien Brun
- Christiaan Burke
- Rafa Cabrera Bello
- Jonathan Caldwell
- Jorge Campillo
- Alejandro Cañizares
- Laurie Canter
- John Catlin
- Russell Chrystie
- Aaron Cockerill
- George Coetzee
- Nicolas Colsaerts
- Sean Crocker
- Louis De Jager
- Louis Dobbelaar
- Jamie Donaldson
- David Drysdale
- Hennie Du Plessis
- Victor Dubuisson
- Nacho Elvira
- Ewen Ferguson
- Darren Fichardt
- Oliver Fisher
- Ross Fisher
- Alex Fitzpatrick
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Grant Forrest
- Ryan Fox
- Daniel Gale
- Stephen Gallacher
- Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez
- Alfredo Garcia-Heredia
- Daniel Gavins
- Talor Gooch
- Ricardo Gouveia
- Branden Grace
- Julien Guerrier
- Chase Hanna
- Joachim B. Hansen
- Padraig Harrington
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Marcus Helligkilde
- Scott Hend
- Calum Hill
- Nicolai Højgaard
- Rasmus Højgaard
- Billy Horschel
- David Horsey
- David Howell
- Scott Jamieson
- Jazz Janewattananond
- Casey Jarvis
- Matthew Jordan
- Takumi Kanaya
- Rikard Karlberg
- Maximilian Kieffer
- Marcus Kinhult
- Søren Kjeldsen
- Alexander Knappe
- Espen Kofstad
- Frederic Lacroix
- Joakim Lagergren
- Romain Langasque
- Francesco Laporta
- Pablo Larrazábal
- David Law
- Thriston Lawrence
- Hugo Leon
- Tom Lewis
- Steve Lewton
- Zander Lombard
- Hurly Long
- Shane Lowry
- Joost Luiten
- Robert Macintyre
- Richard Mansell
- Rory Mcilroy
- Adrian Meronk
- David Micheluzzi
- Guido Migliozzi
- Francesco Molinari
- Jediah Morgan
- James Morrison
- Lukas Nemecz
- Wilco Nienaber
- Alex Noren
- Shaun Norris
- Sean O'Hair
- Geoff Ogilvy
- Thorbjørn Olesen
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Adrian Otaegui
- Chris Paisley
- Yannik Paul
- Andrea Pavan
- Matthieu Pavon
- Eddie Pepperell
- Victor Perez
- Paul Peterson
- Trent Phillips
- Thomas Pieters
- Aaron Pike
- Tapio Pulkkanen
- Richie Ramsay
- Jovan Rebula
- Patrick Reed
- Robert Rock
- Antoine Rozner
- Kalle Samooja
- Neil Schietekat
- Marcel Schneider
- Charl Schwartzel
- Jack Senior
- Shubhankar Sharma
- Callum Shinkwin
- Jack Singh Brar
- Jordan Smith
- Sebastian Soderberg
- Matthew Southgate
- Richard Sterne
- Brandon Stone
- Tristen Strydom
- Connor Syme
- Santiago Tarrio
- Peter Uihlein
- Sami Välimäki
- Darius Van Driel
- Daniel Van Tonder
- Johannes Veerman
- Albert Venter
- Nicolai Von Dellingshausen
- Martin Vorster
- Matt Wallace
- Justin Walters
- Marc Warren
- Dale Whitnell
- Danny Willett
- Oliver Wilson
- Blake Windred
- Jeff Winther
- Jordan Zunic
2022 ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP PRIZE MONEY BREAKDOWN
| Position | Prize Money |
|---|---|
| 1 | $800,000 |
| 2 | $533,330 |
| 3 | $300,480 |
| 4 | $240,000 |
| 5 | $203,520 |
| 6 | $168,000 |
| 7 | $144,000 |
| 8 | $120,000 |
| 9 | $107,520 |
| 10 | $96,000 |
| 11 | $88,320 |
| 12 | $82,560 |
| 13 | $77,280 |
| 14 | $73,440 |
| 15 | $70,560 |
| 16 | $67,680 |
| 17 | $64,800 |
| 18 | $61,920 |
| 19 | $59,520 |
| 20 | $57,600 |
| 21 | $55,680 |
| 22 | $54,240 |
| 23 | $52,800 |
| 24 | $51,360 |
| 25 | $49,920 |
| 26 | $48,480 |
| 27 | $47,040 |
| 28 | $45,600 |
| 29 | $44,160 |
| 30 | $42,720 |
| 31 | $41,280 |
| 32 | $39,840 |
| 33 | $38,400 |
| 34 | $36,960 |
| 35 | $36,000 |
| 36 | $35,040 |
| 37 | $34,080 |
| 38 | $33,120 |
| 39 | $32,160 |
| 40 | $31,200 |
| 41 | $30,240 |
| 42 | $29,280 |
| 43 | $28,320 |
| 44 | $27,360 |
| 45 | $26,400 |
| 46 | $25,440 |
| 47 | $24,480 |
| 48 | $23,520 |
| 49 | $22,560 |
| 50 | $21,600 |
| 51 | $20,640 |
| 52 | $19,680 |
| 53 | $18,720 |
| 54 | $17,760 |
| 55 | $16,800 |
| 56 | $15,840 |
| 57 | $14,880 |
| 58 | $14,400 |
| 59 | $13,920 |
| 60 | $13,440 |
WHO WON THE 2021 ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP?
2016 Masters champion Danny Willett secured victory at the 2021 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The Englishman, who was celebrating his 34th birthday, raced to a three-shot lead ahead of the final round before a closing 68 to win by two from Tyrrell Hatton and Joakim Lagergren of Sweden.
WHERE IS THE ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP BEING PLAYED?
The Alfred Dunhill Links will be contested at three venues - the Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns.
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