Is there any rhyme or reason to the Open Championship qualifiers?

There have been some fairly futile exercises undertaken over the years.

When the Grand Old Duke of York marched 10,000 men up to the top of the hill, for instance, and promptly marched them back down again, the critics of the day were unrelenting in their lampooning of such pointless military extravagance.

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