Open champion Scottie Scheffler's winner's check will match what Xander Schauffele received in 2024: a payday of $3.1 million.

It is the first time in major championship history that five or more men, each playing under different flags, were tied for the lead.

Xander Schauffele has bounced back from a poor start to rise into second place in the Ryder Cup standings. He'll be on Team USA. JJ Spaun's US Open win has all but secured him a spot, the first rookie on the projected team. But from there, the standings tighten up.

The 153rd Open Championship, at Royal Portrush, Northern Ireland, runs Thursday, July 17, through Sunday, July 20.

Jon Rahm shrugged off complaints on the pace of play at The Open Championship 2025. The Spaniard downplayed the alleged slow play at Royal Portrush Golf Club after Bryson DeChambeau made harsh comments on the same. Rahm, ahead of the final round of the 153rd British Open, said the delay in play could be credited to the major’s big field.

At the Open Championship at Portrush this week, the players cross onto the Valley course now and again, perhaps without even knowing it.

Many notable players missed the cut including Brooks Keopka, Collin Morikawa, Matthieu Pavon, Joaquin Niemann, Patrick Reed, Tom Hope and more

“I'm not scared, I'm not going to back away,” added the world No. 14 as he strives to become the first Scotsman since Paul Lawrie in 1999 to lift the Claret Jug. “It (Portrush) is completely different to Oakmont. At Oakmont, I couldn't roll the dice. It was never, ‘let's press, let's press’. It was always, ‘right, let's go out here with pars’.