Old Course at St Andrews - The Open Championship

The Open Championship

The Open Championship has been staged at the Old Course at St Andrews 28 times. The following is a list of the champions:

Year Winner Score
R1 R2 R3 R4 Total
1873 Tom Kidd 1st 91 88 -- -- 179. This was the first time the Open Championship was played on an 18-hole course. Instead of three round of 12 holes, there were two rounds of 18. Kidd won 11 pounds.
1876 Bob Martin 1st 86 90 -- -- 176. Due to a controversial ruling, Bob Martin finished in a tie for first. In protest, his opponent Davie Strath refused to participate so Martin walked the course and became the Open Champion.
1879 Jamie Anderson 3rd 84 85 -- -- 169. With this win, Jamie Anderson became the first person to break 170 in the Open Championship.
1882 Bob Ferguson 3rd 83 88 -- -- 171. This was the third straight Open Championship for Ferguson. He won 12 pounds.
1885 Bob Martin 2nd 84 87 -- -- 171. The third of Martin's Open Championship wins, he won 10 pounds.
1888 Jack Burns 1st 86 85 -- -- 171. Burns won after his score was re-added, giving him a one-stroke victory.
1891 Hugh Kirkaldy 1st 83 83 -- -- 166. Kirkaldy set the tournament record with his 166. This was also the last Open Championship that was 36 holes.
1895 J.H. Taylor 2nd 86 78 80 78 322. This was the first Open to be played over two days (36 holes a day) and a total of 72 holes at St. Andrews. He shot the first sub-80 rounds at St Andrews.
1900 J.H. Taylor 3rd 79 77 78 75 309. This open marked the first time the “Great Triumvirate” finished 1-2-3. That was the name given to the three golfers who dominated the game in the late 1800s to the early 1900s. From 1894 to 1906, J.H. Taylor, Harry Vardon, and James Braid combined to win 16 Open Championships. This was Taylor's third of five Open Championships.
1905 James Braid 2nd 81 78 78 81 318. This was the first Open to be played over three days, with 36 holes on the last day. This was Braid's second of five Open Championships.
1910 James Braid 5th 76 73 74 76 299. This Open was the last of Braid's five Open Championships. With this win he became the first person to break 300 in a four-round Open at St Andrews, and was the first to win five Open Championships.
1921 Jock Hutchison 1st 72 75 79 70 296 PO. Hutchison was the first American citizen to win the Open Championship with this win. This was also the first time Bobby Jones played St Andrews. He ended up walking off the course after he took four shots to get out of a bunker on the 11th hole.
1927 Bobby Jones (a) 2nd 68 72 73 72 285 (-3). This win marked Bobby Jones' first Open championship win at St Andrews, his second straight Open Championship, fourth professional major, and his 7th career major (he was a three-time winner of the U.S. Amateur).
1933 Denny Shute 1st 73 73 73 73 292 (+4) PO. Shute won the Open title by five strokes in a playoff against Craig Wood. Leo Diegel could have joined them but he whiffed a putt on the 72nd hole, finishing one shot off the lead.
1939 Dick Burton 1st 70 72 77 71 290 (-2). The 1939 Open was the last Open Championship that was played until 1946 because of World War II. The British Royal Air Force used the fairways of the Old Course as runways. Burton is also the person who holds the Open title longest because he held the title for seven years until the war ended and the tournament resumed in 1946.
1946 Sam Snead 1st 71 70 74 75 290 (-2). Even though American Sam Snead won the first Open Championship to be played since 1939, he still lost money because of the high travel expenses. When taking the train into St Andrews, Sam Snead is quoted for looking out of the window and saying “Say, that looks like an old abandoned golf course” about the Old Course.
1955 Peter Thomson 2nd 71 68 70 72 281 (−7). This was the second of Thomson's three straight Open titles, and five overall.
1957 Bobby Locke 4th 69 72 68 70 279 (−9). Between 1949 and 1957, Locke won the Open title four times. He survived a possible disqualification when he marked his ball on the 72nd green, and played his ball without replacing his ball mark. The R&A decided that because he had a three shot lead, and he didn’t gain an advantage, that in the spirit of the game, he should not be disqualified.
1960 Kel Nagle 1st 69 67 71 71 278 (−10). This was the 100th anniversary of the Open Championship, although due to wars it wasn’t the 100th Open Championship to be played. Arnold Palmer finished second and is credited with returning the Open to the eyes of Americans.
1964 Tony Lema 1st 73 68 68 70 279 (−9). In between 1962 and 1966 Lema won 12 times on tour, his only major win being the 1964 Open title. He ended up beating Jack Nicklaus by five strokes. Tragically in 1966 he was killed when his plane crashed on a golf course.
1970 Jack Nicklaus 2nd 68 69 73 73 283 (−5)PO. Doug Sanders missed a tough two and a half foot putt on the 72nd hole, bogeyed, and ended up tied with Nicklaus. The playoff the next day came down to 18th hole when Nicklaus birdied to win the Open title. This was his second Open title and eight overall major.
1978 Jack Nicklaus 3rd 71 72 69 69 281 (−7). Nicklaus completed the career Grand Slam (winning all four majors in your career at least once) for the third time making it his third Open Championship.
1984 Seve Ballesteros 2nd 69 68 70 69 276 (−12). The leaderboard for the final day was full of the best golfers in the world at the time. Ballesteros beat Bernhard Langer, Tom Watson, Fred Couples, Lanny Wadkins, Nick Faldo, and Greg Norman to make an epic final round at St Andrews. Ballesteros birdied the 72nd hole to win by two, and his fist pump is an iconic image to this day. He won $71,500.
1990 Nick Faldo 2nd 67 65 67 71 270 (−18). Faldo set the Open championship scoring record shooting 18 under par, winning his second major of the year, his second Open Championship and his fourth overall major.
1995 John Daly 1st 67 71 73 71 282 (−6)PO. This Open was significant because it was the first that Tiger Woods played in, and the last the Arnold Palmer played in, getting to have his farewell at St Andrews. John Daly beat Costantino Rocca in a four-hole playoff to win the Open title and $199,375.
2000 Tiger Woods 1st 67 66 67 69 269 (−19). Winning the 2000 British Open was Tiger Woods' second consecutive major championship; he would win the next two as well for four consecutive major victories over two years - the "Tiger Slam". He didn’t hit a single bunker the entire tournament, shot in the 60’s all four rounds, won by eight strokes, and set the new Open Championship scoring record with 19 under par. He won $759,150.
2005 Tiger Woods 2nd 66 67 71 70 274 (−14). This was Jack Nicklaus’s last Open Championship and like Arnold Palmer, he finished on the Old Course. This was also Tiger's 10th major championship and the fourth one he had won by five or more strokes. He won $1,261,285.
2010 Louis Oosthuizen1st 65 67 69 71 272 (−16). On the 150th anniversary of the first Open Championship, Oosthuizen played consistently well, winning the Open title by shooting a 16 under par 272 and winning by seven strokes. Rory McIlroy shot a 63 in the opening round.
  • Note: Superscript number besides the player's name is the number of the Open Championship in their respective careers.

(a) denotes amateur

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