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Scroll below for The 150th Open Championship field list which will be played at St. Andrews. Check here for updates. Abraham Ancer Marcus Armitage Adri Arnaus Sam Bairstow (A) Christiaan Bezuidenhout Alexander Bjork Richard Bland Keegan Bradley Barclay Brown (A) Dean Burmester Sam Burns Mark Calcavecchia Ben Campbell Laurie Canter Patrick Cantlay David Carey Paul Casey John Catlin Filippo Celli (A) Ashley Chesters Mingyu Cho Stewart Cink Wyndham Clark Darren Clarke Corey Conners John Daly Justin De Los Santos Bryson Dechambeau Thomas Detry Robert Dinwiddie Stephen Dodd David Duval Ernie Els Harris English Oliver Farr Jorge Fernandez-Valdes Tony Finau Matthew Fitzpatrick Tommy Fleetwood Jack Floydd Matthew Ford Ryan Fox Dylan Frittelli Sergio Garcia Talor Gooch Matthew Griffin Emiliano Grillo Justin Harding Brian Harman Padraig Harrington Tyrrell Hatton Russell Henley Lucas Herbert Kazuki Higa Garrick Higgo Tom Hoge Nicolai Hojgaard Max Homa Billy Horschel Sam Horsfield Viktor Hovland Mackenzie Hughes Sungjae Im Shugo Imahira Aaron Jarvis (A) Dustin Johnson Zach Johnson Matthew Jordan Sadom Kaewkanjana Takumi Kanaya Yuto Katsuragawa Brad Kennedy Minkyu Kim Joo-Hyung Kim Si-Woo Kim Chan Kim Sihwan Kim Chris Kirk Kevin Kisner Brooks Koepka Jason Kokrak Pablo Larrazabal David Law Thriston Lawrence Paul Lawrie Min Woo Lee K.H. Lee Marc Leishman Haotong Li Luke List Zander Lombard Shane Lowry Robert Macintyre Richard Mansell Hideki Matsuyama Rory Mcilroy Adrian Meronk Phil Mickelson Guido Migliozzi Keith Mitchell Francesco Molinari Jediah Morgan Collin Morikawa Ronan Mullarney Sebastian Munoz Kevin Na Keita Nakajima (A) Joaquin Niemann Shaun Norris Louis Oosthuizen Dimitrios Papadatos John Parry Marco Penge Mito Pereira Victor Perez Thomas Pieters J.T. Poston Aldrich Potgieter (A) Ian Poulter Seamus Power Anthony Quayle Jon Rahm Patrick Reed Justin Rose Jamie Rutherford Xander Schauffele Scottie Scheffler Adam Scott Jason Scrivener Webb Simpson Jordan Smith Cameron Smith Jordan Spieth Henrik Stenson Sepp Straka Sahith Theegala Justin Thomas Cameron Tringale Lars Van Meijel Erik Van Rooyen Harold Varner III Scott Vincent Lee Westwood Bernd Wiesberger Danny Willett Aaron Wise Gary Woodland Tiger Woods Alex Wrigley Cameron Young Will Zalatoris

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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Moving on from a devastating summer of losing his child, Camilo Villegas made a 10-foot birdie putt on his final hole Thursday for a 6-under 64 and a share of the lead with Matt Wallace in The RSM Classic. RELATED: Final leaderboard | The healing has begun for Camilo and Maria Villegas Villegas and Wallace each finished on the Seaside course at Sea Island with big putts. Villegas capped off a bogey-free round on the ninth hole for his lowest score on the PGA TOUR in four years. Wallace hit into a hazard on the 18th and saved par with a 30-foot putt. They were a shot ahead of eight players, a group that included Sea Island resident Patton Kizzire and Robert Streb, who won his only PGA TOUR title at Sea Island five years ago. They each had 5-under 67 on the Plantation course, which played about three-quarters of a shot harder. Villegas was trying to return from a shoulder injury that kept him out all of 2019 when he and wife learned early this year their 2-year-old daughter, Mia, had tumors developing on her brain and spine. She was going through chemotherapy when she died in July. He’s trying to move on and hang on to memories, and he had one immediately while warming up with his brother, Manny, working as his caddie. "Got on the range and see a little rainbow out there. I start thinking about Mia and said, ‘Hey, let's have a good one.’ Nice to have Manny on the bag and yes, it was a good ball-striking round, it was a great putting round. I was pretty free all day." Villegas, a 38-year-old from Colombia, is a four-time winner on the PGA TOUR, including the last two FedExCup Playoff events in 2008. He has missed the cut in three of his five events of the new PGA TOUR season, which began a little more than a month after his daughter died. "I can’t change the past and since I can't change the past, I've got to focus on the present," Villegas said. “It's not about forgetting because you never forget your daughter. It’s about being in the moment, being in the now and this is my now. It's not with her, but it is with her at the same time. "I love playing golf, I love doing what I do. The game of golf has been great to me," he said. "I happened to have a shoulder injury there for the last couple years that kind of set me back a bit, but I'm excited. I think things are rolling the right way and obviously if I keep doing what I did today, it should be fine." Wallace tied for 46th last week at the Masters Tournament, and then learned on his way to Sea Island about three hours away that his caddie, Dave McNealy, tested positive for the coronavirus. Wallace tested negative, but he was in need of a caddie. With two courses in the rotation he didn’t know, he decided on a local caddie named Jeffrey Cammon. "He’s really chill," said Wallace. "He said, ‘What do you want me to say?' That was the first question. I was like, ‘Listen, mate, I don't need anything. I’ll ask you a question and you answer it just with pure facts of what you think.’ It worked well today." Wallace has slipped in and out of the top 50 in the world in recent months, and with the year winding down, returning into the top 50 would set him up for a return to the Masters in April. The weather wasn’t as pleasant as it was at Augusta National, with cooler temperatures, strong wind and heavy clouds. Nearly half the 156-man field was at par or better. Sungjae Im, a runner-up at the Masters, began his round at Plantation with double bogey and brought it back to even-par 72.

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Austin, Texas – Some guys talk a lot. Others not at all. Some might dictate pace of play. Some play subterfuge with club selection. There are many ways to try to add tactical nous to a match play battle. It is one of the beauties of the format we have this week as the best players in the world take on each other one-on-one in the World Golf Championships – Dell Technologies Match Play. Some guys can be ruthless. Others too friendly. Finding out who each guy is could be a fascinating part of this week. Some guys don’t bother with the mental side of the encounter. They are in their own world. Defending champion Dustin Johnson would fit into that category. Others engage in tactical play for sure. Canvassing the range at Austin Country Club to hear about some of the methods players have perhaps used or been subjected to was interesting indeed. Of course, going on record about a potential opponent this week is not smart business, so lots of information came with anonymity. Multiple players talked about how opponents use the verbal game as a weapon. Perhaps they talk a lot to distract. Perhaps it is the content of the conversation. Back-handed compliments that get players thinking is a common theme. Maybe it is someone telling you how great it was to see you successful, even with that swing quirk you have. Maybe it is just talking about all their own success over and over. On the flipside, some opponents use words as a weapon by not using them at all. Normally friendly – in a match they give you nothing. Make you feel like you’ve done something wrong. Have you wonder why they are all of a sudden mute. This mental mind game might produce the one loose swing that could turn a match. “I don’t know if I’ve ever really tried to sort of put any gamesmanship on anyone. I might make someone hole a really short putt from time to time or give them a few three-footers and then make them putt one further along the match,â€� the 2015 champion Rory McIlroy said. “There might be guys that you chat and sort of talk the whole way around and it’s a friendly, cordial match, or there’s guys that would prefer not to.â€� Two-time runner-up of the event Paul Casey laughed when recalling days early in his career when playing against non-English speaking opponents. “The language barrier was used a couple of times as to whether putts were conceded or not,â€� he smiled of his amateur career. “I remember a player – as his coin was very close to my line and we were still both about ten feet away and he kind of looked at me. I assumed he looked at me to confirm whether his marker was in my line and it needed to be moved. And I said, that’s okay there. So, he picked it up. And then of course his perfect English became… well, he lost his ability to understand English all of a sudden.â€� Another classic trick mentioned was around club selection off the tee. If hitting first you can have your caddy cover the irons with a towel on the par-3’s so there was no way of seeing what club has been selected. You might then have an audible conversation with that caddy about your “7-ironâ€� when in fact you have an 8-iron in your hand. The opposing player than might be tricked into using the wrong club. If you are hitting second – particularly at a drivable par-4 – always grab the driver out of the bag to immediately signal your intention to go for it. This may tempt the opponent to take on more risk than they need to. Pace of play is another method. If your opponent likes to play fast, walk slow. If they are on the slower side, walk fast and hope they lift to your tempo and fall out of rhythm. Two-time champion Jason Day has often talked about trying to be the guy who frustrates his opponent with not just his short game, but other facets also. He is known for not conceding putts and trying to portray strength at all times. “Something really easy that you can do is, if you’re down in the match and it’s later in the match, always walk forward in front of the person that you’re playing against, just so that you’re letting them know that you’re pushing forward and you’re also letting them know that you’re still hanging around,â€� he said on the eve of his attempt to join Tiger Woods as the only three-time champions. “People feed off body language. If I’m looking across and he’s got his shoulders slumped and his head is down, you can tell he’s getting frustrated, that’s when you push a little bit harder.â€� Day, and others, warned of annoying certain players, though. Jordan Spieth was asked what he has to do to beat long-time teammate Patrick Reed, and the simple answer was not to upset him. Reed plays much better angry. Day had seen it first-hand a few years earlier when his methods fired up a young Russell Henley, and the American made a big late comeback forcing Day to extra holes. “You’ve got to know when to push and kind of take it back in, because sometimes if you push too hard and they get a little bit angry with you, you can actually turn them into a good player because they can feed off that anger,â€� Day explains. “So the mental side of things is tough because you’ve got to kind of watch who you’re playing against, feed off what their body language is doing and how they’re playing and know when to take the risks and not take the risks.â€� Spieth expects a bit of shenanigans in his matches. And he’s okay with it. “I think everybody involved or everybody that’s playing thinks… don’t take yourself too seriously. It’s part of it. It should be fun,â€� the Texan says. “There should be some gamesmanship. That’s the way it is in every other sport, we just never play one-on-one or team versus team like other sports do.â€� But at the end of the day – no matter what tricks or tactics you might employ – you have to play better than your opponent. “Here’s the thing. Birdie, birdie, Eagle, birdie – that’s what wins matches,â€� Casey said. “If you are more worried about what tactics you are using and not on your golf, then your focus is on the wrong thing. Play better and you will advance.â€�

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