Louis Oosthuizen has been a regular at every Open Championship, except in 2013, when he had to withdraw. On July 13, 2026, the South African player had to withdraw, forced off thefield because of a back injury.

The GOLF.com staff makes its picks to win the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale following Scottie Scheffler's win at the event last year.

In 1930, Bobby Jones won all four majors in a season. And to this day, he remains the only golfer to do so.

The return to Royal Birkdale at least allows him to remember how it felt to walk up to the 18th green with victory secure, sitting on the edge of a pot bunker with the claret jug.

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Louis Oosthuizen didn't say why he was dropping out of the British Open, but fellow South African Aldrich Potgieter benefits as first alternate.

Jordan Spieth has admitted that it has been unusual to return to Royal Birkdale and see some of the changes from when he won The Open Championship in Southport back in 2017. Few would have ever imagined that Spieth would head back to Birkdale still awaiting his fourth major victory.

Though he can't hit two of the greatest shots of his career anymore, Spieth returns to Royal Birkdale fully confident he can hit new ones.