Elvis Smylie

Elvis Smylie will make his third consecutive Open appearance in 2026.

The Australian qualified for Royal Birkdale by finishing 23rd on the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai Rankings.

He won the BMW Australian PGA Championship – co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour – by two from the 2022 Champion Golfer of the Year, and mentor, Cameron Smith, in November 2024.

Smylie achieved four top-20s on the European circuit in 2025, including a T2 finish in the FedEx Open de France in September.

He earned his first start in a major at The 152nd Open at Royal Troon in 2024 by sharing the second of four available places in the 36-hole Final Qualifying event at Royal Cinque Ports. He went into that day 934th in the world rankings, but has since broken into the top 140.

The left-hander achieved his first professional victory on home soil in late 2024, in the West Australia Open after a play-off with Jak Carter.

Smylie comes from a sporting family; his mother Liz won the Wimbledon women’s doubles title with Kathy Jordan in 1985 and the mixed doubles there with John Fitzgerald six years later. She was also a singles quarter-finalist at her home Australian Open in between.