Open (sport) performance standards or eligibility criteria may apply in other sports. Opens are usually found in golf, tennis, bowling, badminton, quizbowl, fighting games, snooker, darts, volleyball, ultimate, squash and chess. Open (sport) An Open in sports terminology refers to a sporting event or game tournament that is open to contestants regardless of their professional or amateur status, age, ability, gender, sex, or other categorization. In many sports, preliminary qualifying events, open to all entrants, are held to successively reduce the field to a manageable number for participation in a final championship event, which itself may involve elimination rounds (tournaments). The term
2012 Women's British Open Sunday in the reduced daylight of mid-September, the cut was reduced by fifteen players, to the top fifty and ties. Professionals within the top 65 and ties earned official prize money. Amateurs: "Ko (−1), Clyburn (+1), Law (+2), Yan (+5)," Hull (+7), Taylor (+7), Peters (+9), Boulden (+10), Maguire (+13), Thompson (+14). "Sunday, 16 September 2012 (morning)" "Sunday, 16 September 2012 (afternoon)" Amateurs: Ko (+9), Clyburn (+11), Law (+12), Yan (+16). "Final round" "Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par"<br> 2012 Women's British Open The 2012 Ricoh Women's British Open was held 13–16 September at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Merseyside,