Merit as of 30 May Scott Laycock, Craig Parry 23. Top 3 from the 2001 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit Dean Wilson 24. Top 2 from the 2001–02 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit Tim Clark, Justin Rose 25. The leading player, not exempt, in the 2002 Mizuno Open Kiyoshi Miyazato 26. First 4, not exempt having applied (25) above, in the top 20 of a cumulative money list taken from all official Japan Golf Tour events from the 2002 Japan PGA Championship up to and including the 2002 Mizuno Open Kenichi Kuboya, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Toru Suzuki, Toru Taniguchi 27. The 2001 Senior British Open Champion Ian Stanley 28. The 2002 Amateur Champion Alejandro Larrazábal (a) 29. The 2001 U.S. Amateur Champion Bubba Dickerson forfeited his exemption by turning professional. 30. The 2001 European Amateur Champion Stephen Browne forfeited his exemption by turning professional. Final Qualifying (Sunday 14 July and Monday 15 July) Dunbar – Luke Donald, Mattias Eliasson, Steve Elkington, Ian Garbutt, Patrik Sjöland, Esteban Toledo, Simon Young (a) Gullane No. 1 – Fredrik Andersson, Gary Emerson, Richard Green, James Kingston, Adam Mednick, Raymond Russell, John Senden Luffness New – Peter Baker, Benn Barham, Andrew Coltart, Paul Eales, John Kemp (a), Jarrod Moseley, Magnus Persson Atlevi North Berwick – Matthew Cort, Scott Henderson, Trevor Immelman, Paul Mayoh, David Park, Roger Wessels, Tom Whitehouse Round summaries First round Thursday, 18 July 2002 Second round Friday, 19 July 2002 Amateurs: Young (+5), Kemp (+6), Larrazábal (+10). Third round Saturday, 20 July 2002 Final round Sunday, 21 July 2002 Source: Scorecard Final round Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par Source: Playoff The four-hole aggregate playoff was contested over holes 1, 16, 17, & 18; Levet and Elkington went off in the first pair and Els and Appleby in the last. After a birdie putt on the second hole (#16, par 3), Levet led by a stroke, but bogeyed the last to tie Els at even-par. Appleby and Elkington also bogeyed the last hole and were eliminated by a stroke. At the first hole (#18) of sudden death, Levet put his tee shot in a fairway bunker and bogeyed. Els saved par from a greenside bunker with a five-foot (1.6 m) putt to win the title. Through 2021, this is the only four-man playoff in Open Championship history, and no other current major championship has had a four-way playoff. Scorecard Cumulative playoff scores,