Angel Hidalgo

Angel Hidalgo sealed his place at The 155th Open by finishing runner-up to Matt Fitzpatrick in the FedEx Open de France in September 2026.

The DP World Tour event, held at Le Golf National, was the inaugural tournament on the Open Qualifying Series for 2027. Hidalgo took the one place on offer due to Fitzpatrick already being exempt for St Andrews.

It will be the Spaniard's third appearance at golf's original championship.

Hidalgo twice came through the 36-hole Final Qualifying at Dundonald Links to reach The Open, doing so in 2024 and 2025.

Those were his first two major appearances before his third came at the US Open in 2026, where he finished T53.

The biggest win of his career to date came at the 2024 Acciona Open de España where he beat two-time major winner, former world number one and compatriot Jon Rahm in a play-off.

Hidalgo twice won the Spanish Amateur and was part of their victorious side at the 2017 European Team Championship. He then helped them to third place in the following year’s Eisenhower Trophy world championship.

A winner on the Challenge Tour in 2021 at the Big Green Egg German Challenge, he was fourth in the 2022 Andalucia Masters at Valderrama after opening with a 63, one outside Bernhard Langer’s course record.

Hidalgo also has two wins on the Alps Tour, both of which came in 2021.