Besides Jelle Klaasen, Matt Good, Adam Warner, Graham Hall and Paul Hogan have also qualified for the UK Open via the Rileys Qualifiers.
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The Rileys Qualifiers are open to players without a Tour Card. Sixteen of these will be played before the UK Open, so players without a Tour Card also get the chance to play against the big names. In recent years more and more famous players, who have had a Tour Card before, enter the competition, making them (semi-)professional players rather than amateur players.
Matt Good won the qualifying tournament in Norwich, and even threw a nine darter during this event. Warner, Hall and Hogan won the tournaments in Liverpool, Solihull and South Benfleet respectively.
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