2025 Alfred Dunhill Links: Fitzpatrick, Fleetwood, Smith confirmed for St Andrews

Major Champions from five countries will tee off in the 2025 Alfred Dunhill Links in one of the strongest international fields ever seen in the competition.

England’s Matt Fitzpatrick, Ireland’s Padraig Harrington, Germany’s Martin Kaymer, American Patrick Reed and Australia’s Cameron Smith are the latest confirmed for golf’s autumn classic in October.

They join defending champion Tyrrell Hatton and two other Major Champions, Brooks Koepka and Bubba Watson, who have already announced they will play.

Also back at St Andrews will be the ever-popular Tommy Fleetwood, two-time runner-up for the individual professional title and winner of the 2019 Team Championship with Ogden Phipps. He still holds the course record of 63 at Carnoustie which he achieved in the 2017 Championship with nine birdies in a flawless round.

Fleetwood said: “I’ve always loved the Old Course and St Andrews, ever since I played the Links Trophy as an amateur. I enjoy playing every year with my team-mate and close friend Ogden. St Andrews is a very special place that I look forward to returning to every year and I love the atmosphere of the Dunhill Links seeing old friends and meeting some new! It’s one of the best weeks of the schedule without a doubt.”

Matt Fitzpatrick, the 2022 US Open champion, won the Dunhill Links individual professional title, as well as the Team Championship with his mother Susan in 2023. This year he will be playing with his dad Russell hoping to match that achievement.

Three-time Major winner Padraig Harrington, who won the individual title and the Team Championship twice, in 2002 and 2006, playing with J.P. McManus, will be trying to equal Hatton’s record as a winner of three Dunhill Links titles.

Martin Kaymer had a golden year in 2010, winning the US PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, the KLM Open and the Alfred Dunhill Links, becoming the first player since Tiger Woods in 2006 to win three successive events in a year. He also won the US Open in 2014 at the difficult Pinehurst course by eight shots.

Patrick Reed won the Masters in 2018 and finished third earlier this year behind Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose. He also finished fourth in the US Open in 2018 and second in the US PGA in 2017.

Australia’s Cam Smith has enormous credentials at the Home of Golf. He came from four behind in 2022 to shoot a 64 in the final round of the 150th Open Championship to win the Claret Jug. It was a dramatic afternoon and likely to make him one of the favourites for this year’s Alfred Dunhill Links, which he is playing for the first time.

He said: “Winning the Open on the Old Course must be every golfer’s dream and it was a moment I will never forget. To walk up the 18th hole in the Dunhill will bring it all back and I can’t wait to play there. It would be an amazing double if I could win, but it looks like a really strong field so I will need to play my best golf.”

The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is a celebration of Links golf, played over the Old Course St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns, three of the greatest Links courses in the world, from October 2 – 5, culminating in the final day on the Old Course.

With a prize fund of US$5 million, the Alfred Dunhill Links incorporates two separate competitions - an Individual Professional tournament for the world's leading golfers and the Team Championship in which the professionals are paired with amateur golfers which creates a unique atmosphere.

For the first three days entry is FREE, tickets are not needed. Only tickets for the final day, Sunday, October 5, on the Old Course, need to be purchased. To purchase tickets, visit: www.alfreddunhilllinks.com/tickets/

This is the 40th year that Alfred Dunhill has supported golf at St Andrews – first in the Alfred Dunhill Cup from 1985, then in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship from 2001. During that time, many millions have been raised for charity.

In June 2011 the Alfred Dunhill Links Foundation was established as the official Foundation of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The Foundation is committed to developing young amateur golfers in Scotland and South Africa and also supports the University of St Andrews and the St Andrews Pilgrim Foundation, which refurbishes and preserves historical monuments in the town.