2023 Open Championship: Brian Harman wins at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Brian Harman won the 2023 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England with 271 (−13), by 6 strokes over Jason Day and Tom Kim and Jon Rahm and Sepp Straka.
Updated October 23, 2026
See 2023 in The Open room, or every year on The Open winners list.
- Dates
- 20 July 2023 to 23 July 2023
- Course
- Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England
- Edition
- 151st Open Championship
- Format
- 72 holes of stroke play
- Par
- 71 · 7,383 yards
- Purse
- $16,500,000 · winner's share $3,000,000
- Trophy
- Claret Jug (replica to winner)
- Champion
- Brian Harman · age 36 · USA · born Savannah, USA
- Champion's title
- 1st Open title
- World ranking entering
- No. 26
- Winning score
- 67-65-69-70 = 271 (−13) · won by 6 strokes
- Runners-up
- Jason Day (277), Tom Kim (277), Jon Rahm (277), Sepp Straka (277)
- 54-hole leader
- Brian Harman (201)
- Final-day weather
- wet: Harman won by six (13 under), "making light of the heavy rain that fell on the final day".
- Low amateur
- Christo Lamprecht (295)
Top 12 as recorded
| Pos. | Player | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Harman | 67 | 65 | 69 | 70 | 271 | −13 |
| T2 | Tom Kim | 74 | 68 | 68 | 67 | 277 | −7 |
| T2 | Sepp Straka | 71 | 67 | 70 | 69 | 277 | −7 |
| T2 | Jason Day | 72 | 67 | 69 | 69 | 277 | −7 |
| T2 | Jon Rahm | 74 | 70 | 63 | 70 | 277 | −7 |
| T6 | Emiliano Grillo | 66 | 74 | 70 | 68 | 278 | −6 |
| T6 | Rory McIlroy | 71 | 70 | 69 | 68 | 278 | −6 |
| T8 | Shubhankar Sharma | 68 | 71 | 70 | 70 | 279 | −5 |
| T8 | Cameron Young | 72 | 68 | 66 | 73 | 279 | −5 |
| T10 | Max Homa | 68 | 73 | 70 | 69 | 280 | −4 |
| T10 | Matthew Jordan | 69 | 72 | 69 | 70 | 280 | −4 |
| T10 | Tommy Fleetwood | 66 | 71 | 71 | 72 | 280 | −4 |
What happened at the 2023 Open Championship
Harman's second-round 65 gave him a five-shot lead after 36 holes, and he led after every round from then on.
Jon Rahm's third-round 63 was the lowest score in an Open at Hoylake.
No source reached names a deciding hole; Harman led by five after 36 holes and won by six.
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's The Open data. A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the organizer's own record is used.
Data: the-open.json (The Open room's data), with GNN's Open Championship addendum tables L (top ten by round), H (deciding hole), W (final-day weather) and D (confirmed dates).
Sources
- R&A 2023
- PGA Tour course stats
- Golf Business News (R&A announcement)
- R&A dates page