The R&A’s website calls them debutants, and there’s 37 of them in the field in 2024.
That’s right, there are more than three dozen golfers who are will be playing in the British Open for the first time this year.
It’s the 152nd Open Championship, and it’ll be the 10th time Royal Troon has hosted the event.
The full field has 158 golfers teeing it up starting Thursday, July 18. It’s just the third time since 1995 that the field was larger than 156.
Here’s the list of the 37 debutants for the 2024 Open Championship.