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
Year	Winner	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.