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The Open Championship

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Tournament information Location Established Course(s) Par Yardage Tour(s) United Kingdom 1860 Turnberry 2009 70 in 2009 7,250 in 2009 PGA Tour PGA European Tour Japan Golf Tour Stroke play £4,200,000 $8,637,720 July

England (the event has been held once in Northern Ireland, but Royal Portrush is no longer on the rota). In 2007, The Open had a prize fund of £4.2 million (at the time, approximately €6.197 million or $8.638 million). Historically, The Open’s prize money was consistently the least of the four majors; since 2002 it has been the highest. Uniquely among the four Major championships, the Open features a four hole playoff for all golfers tied at the end of regulation, with the playoff continuing into sudden death holes if players remain tied after four holes.

History
The Open Championship was first played on 17 October 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club, in Ayrshire, Scotland. The inaugural tournament was restricted to professionals, and attracted a field of eight Scottish golfers,[1] who played three rounds of Prestwick’s twelve-hole course in a single day. Willie Park Senior won with a score of 174, beating the favourite, Old Tom Morris, by two strokes. The following year the tournament was opened to amateurs; eight of them joined ten professionals in the field.

Format Purse Month Played

Tournament record score Aggregate To-par 267 Greg Norman (1993) -19* Tiger Woods (2000)
*record for all majors

Current champion Pádraig Harrington

The Open Championship, or simply The Open (often referred to as the British Open outside the UK), is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico. The Open is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July, and is the third major to take place each year following The Masters and the U.S. Open and before the PGA Championship. The event takes place every year on one of nine historic links courses in Scotland or

Prestwick Golf Club, the venue for the first open in 1860. Originally, the trophy presented to the event’s winner was the Champion’s Belt, a red leather belt with a silver buckle. There was no prize money in the first three Opens. In 1863, a prize fund of £10 (then $50) was introduced, which was shared between the second- third- and fourth-placed professionals, with the Champion still just getting to keep the belt for a year. In 1864 Old Tom Morris won the first Champion’s cash prize of £6. By 2004, the winner’s cheque had

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introduced after two rounds in 1898. In 1920 full responsibility for The Open Championship was handed over to The Royal & Ancient Golf Club. The early winners were all Scottish professionals, who in those days worked as greenkeepers, clubmakers, and caddies to supplement their modest winnings from championships and challenge matches. The Open has always been dominated by professionals, with only six victories by amateurs, all of which occurred between 1890 and 1930. The last of these was Bobby Jones’s third Open and part of his celebrated Grand Slam. Jones was one of four Americans who won The Open between the First and Second World Wars, the first of whom had been Walter Hagen in 1922. These Americans and the French winner of the 1907 Open, Arnaud Massy, were the only winners from outside Scotland and England up to 1939. The first post-World War II winner was the American Sam Snead in 1946. In 1947 Fred Daly of Northern Ireland was victorious. While there have been many English and Scottish champions, Daly was the only winner from Ireland until the 2007 win of the Republic’s Pádraig Harrington, and there has never been a Welsh champion. Otherwise the early postwar years The Open was dominated by golfers from the Commonwealth, with South African Bobby Locke and Australian Peter Thomson winning the Claret Jug in nine of the 11 championships from 1948 and 1958 between them. During this period, The Open often had a schedule conflict with the matchplay PGA Championship, which meant that Ben Hogan, the best American golfer at this time, competed in The Open just once, in 1953 at Carnoustie, a tournament he won. Another South African, Gary Player was Champion in 1959. This was at the beginning of the "Big Three" era in professional golf, the three players in question being Player, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Palmer first competed in 1960, when he came second to the little known Australian Kel Nagle, but he won the two following years. While he was far from being the first American to become Open Champion, he was the first that many Americans saw win the tournament on television, and his charismatic success is often credited with persuading leading American golfers to make The Open an integral part of their schedule, rather than an optional extra.

Willie Park, Snr. wearing the Championship Belt, the winner’s prize at the Open from 1860 to 1870. increased one hundred and twenty thousandfold to £720,000, or perhaps two thousandfold after allowing for inflation. The Champions Belt was retired in 1870, when Young Tom Morris was allowed to keep it for winning the tournament three consecutive times. It was then replaced by the present trophy, The Golf Champion Trophy, better known by its popular name of The Claret Jug. Prestwick Golf Club administered The Open from 1860 to 1870. In 1871, it agreed to organise it jointly with The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. In 1892 the event was doubled in length from 36 to 72 holes, that is four rounds of what was by then the standard complement of 18 holes. In the same year the prize fund reached £100. 1894 was the first year the Open was held outwith Scotland, at the Royal St George’s Golf Club, in England. Due to an increasing number of entrants, a cut was

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The improvement of trans-Atlantic travel also increased American participation. Nicklaus’ victories came in 1966, 1970 and 1978. This tally of three wins is not very remarkable, and indeed he won all of the other three majors more often, but it greatly understates how prominent he was at the tournament throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He finished in the top five 16 times, which is tied most in Open history with John Henry Taylor and easily the most in the postwar era. This included seven second places. Nicklaus holds the records for most rounds under par (61) and most aggregates under par (14). At Turnberry in 1977 he was involved in one of the most celebrated contests in golf history, when his duel with Tom Watson went to the final shot before Watson emerged as the champion for the second time. Watson won five Opens, more than anyone else has since the 1950s, but his final win in 1983 brought down the curtain on an era of U.S. domination. In the next 11 years there was only one American winner, with the others coming from Europe and the Commonwealth. The European winners of this era, Spaniard Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle, who was the first Scottish winner in over half a century, and the Englishman Nick Faldo, were also leading lights among the group of players who began to get the better of the Americans in the Ryder Cup during this period. In 1995, The Open became part of the PGA Tour’s official schedule. John Daly’s playoff win over Italian Costantino Rocca in that year began another era of American domination. Tiger Woods has won three Championships to date, two at St Andrews in 2000 and 2005, and one at Hoylake in 2006. There was a dramatic moment at St Andrews in 2000, as the ageing Jack Nicklaus waved farewell to the crowds, while the young challenger to his crown (as the greatest golfer of all time) watched from a nearby tee; Nicklaus afterwards decided to play in the 2005 Open when the R&A announced St. Andrews as the venue, giving his final farewell to the fans at the Home of Golf. In 2002, all Open wins before 1995 were retroactively classified as PGA Tour wins. Recent years have been notable for the number of wins by previously obscure golfers, including Paul Lawrie’s playoff win after the epic 72nd-hole collapse of Jean Van de Velde in 1999, Ben Curtis in 2003 and Todd Hamilton in 2004. In 2007 the

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Europeans finally broke an eight year drought in the majors when Pádraig Harrington of the Republic of Ireland defeated Sergio García by one stroke in a four-hole playoff. In 2008 at Royal Birkdale Harrington retained the Claret Jug with a wonderful final round of 69 to win the tournament by four shots from Ian Poulter with a final total of 283 (+3) after 72 holes.

Tour status
It has been an official event on the PGA Tour since 1995, which means that the prize money won in The Open by PGA Tour members is included on the official money list. In addition, all Open Championships before 1995 have been retroactively classified as PGA Tour wins, and the list of leading winners on the PGA Tour has been adjusted to reflect this. The European Tour has recognised The Open as an official event since its first official season in 1972 and it is also an official money event on the Japan Golf Tour.

Host courses
See also: List of The Open Championship venues From 1860-70, The Open Championship was organised by and played at Prestwick Golf Club. Since it was revived in 1872 after a lapse of one year, it has always been played at a number of courses in rotation. Initially there were three courses in the rotation, namely Prestwick, St Andrews, and Musselburgh. In 1893 Royal St George’s and Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake were invited to join the rotation. Since then a handful of further clubs have been added, and a few have been dropped. The common factor in the venues for The Open is that they have always been links courses. In more recent times the rotation has generally followed the pattern of being played in Scotland and England alternately. The general interruption to this pattern is the Old Course at St Andrews, which hosts the event every five years or so. There is, however, no strict rule and the host is appointed by the R&A around five years in advance. There is a map showing the locations of the venues here (there are thirteen dots for the fourteen courses; two of the courses are in the town of Sandwich). The Open is usually played in Scotland, North West England, or Kent in South East England. It has

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never been played in Wales, or in seven of the nine regions of England (all except the North West and South East), and it has only been played in Northern Ireland once. The current course rotation in the rota (for years ending in): • (0,5) - Scotland - (Old Course at St Andrews, every fifth year) • (1,6) - England • (2,7) - Scotland • (3,8) - England • (4,9) - Scotland There are nine courses in the current rota: • Old Course at St Andrews: In 1873 the "Home of Golf" became the second course to host the Open. Nowadays, it does so more often than any other course. Since 1990 it has been scheduled every fifth year. • Carnoustie Golf Links, Championship Course: Another Scottish course, the Royal Burgh of Carnoustie first hosted The Open in 1931, and it rejoined the rotation by hosting The Open in 1999 after an absence of 24 years. It hosted the 2007 championship. • Muirfield: Muirfield is a private course which was built for The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, one of the trio of clubs which ran The Open in the 1870s and 1880s. It first staged The Championship in 1892, just nine months after it had been built. • The Westin Turnberry Resort, Ailsa Course: A course on the southwest coast of Scotland which hosted The Open in 1977, 1986, and 1994. It will host again in 2009 after a fifteen year absence. [1] • Royal Troon Golf Club, Old Course: This Scottish course has been in the rotation since 1923. • Royal St George’s Golf Club: This course is in the town of Sandwich in the county of Kent in southeast England. In 1894 it became the first Open venue outside Scotland. • Royal Birkdale Golf Club: This course in northwest England has been in the rotation since 1954. Royal Birkdale hosted The Open in 2008. • Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club: Also in northwest England, this course first hosted The Open in 1926, and entered the rotation in 1952. • Royal Liverpool Golf Club: The home of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, which is

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often referred to simply as "Hoylake", joined the rotation in 1897 and hosted ten Opens up to 1967. After a 39 year absence from the rotation, it hosted the 2006 Open Championship. Courses which are no longer in the rotation: • Prestwick Golf Club: The founder club was dropped from the rotation in 1925, by which time it had hosted twenty-four Opens. • Musselburgh Links: Musselburgh is a public course which was used by the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. When that club built Muirfield, Musselburgh dropped out of the rotation. • Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club: This course in the town of Deal in Kent, England hosted the Open in 1909 and 1920. Although situated in Deal, the course is very close to Royal St George’s in Sandwich, on the current rota. In fact, the 11th tee at Royal Cinque Ports is closer to the clubhouse at Royal St George’s than it is to the clubhouse of Royal Cinque Ports. • Prince’s Golf Club: Prince’s hosted its only Open in 1932. The course is in Sandwich, Kent, England, and is adjacent to Royal St George’s on the current rota. • Royal Portrush Golf Club: The 1951 Open was staged at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.

Exemptions and qualifying events
The field for the Open is 156, and golfers may gain a place in three ways. Around two thirds of the field is made up of leading players who are given exemptions. The rest of the field is made up of players who were successful in "Local Qualifying" and those who came through "International Qualifying". There are over thirty exemption categories. Among the more significant are: • The top 50 on the Official World Golf Rankings. This key sweep up category means that no member of the current elite of world golf will be excluded. • The top 30 in the previous season’s PGA Tour money list and European Tour Order of Merit. Most but not all of these players will also be in the World top 50. • All previous Open Champions who will be age 60 or under on the final day of the tournament.

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• All players who have won one of the other three majors in the previous five years. • The top 10 from the previous year’s Open Championship. Among other things, the additional exemption categories ensure that all the member tours of the International Federation of PGA Tours are represented, and that there are some amateur competitors. Full details of all the exemption categories can be found here. Local Qualifying is the traditional way for non-exempt players to win a place at The Open. It comprises sixteen 18-hole "Regional Qualifying" competitions around Britain and Ireland a week and a half before the event,[2] with successful competitors moving on to the four 36-hole "Local Final Qualifying" tournaments a few days later.[3] There are now twelve places available through Local Qualifying, though there used to be far more. Local Qualifying is open to players from all over the world, and it used to attract some big names. In order to make it easier for professionals from outside Britain and Ireland to compete for a place, the R&A introduced International Qualifying in 2004. This comprises five 36-hole qualifying events, one each in Africa, Australasia, Asia, America and Europe. Only players who have a rating in the Official World Golf Rankings may enter, which is a more stringent standard than for Local Qualifying. Thirty-six places are available in International Qualifying. Eligible players may choose whether to enter local qualifying or international qualifying, but they may not enter both. For full details on qualification see here.

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Records
• Oldest winner: Old Tom Morris (46 years, 99 days), 1867. • Youngest winner: Young Tom Morris (17 years, 181 days), 1868.[8] • Most victories: 6, Harry Vardon (1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, 1914). • Lowest absolute 72-hole score: 267, Greg Norman (66-68-69-64), 1993. • Lowest 72-hole score in relation to par: -19, Tiger Woods (67-66-67-69, 269), 2000 (a record for all major championships). • Norman’s 1993 score was -13. Par at Royal St George’s, the site of the 1993 Open, was 70, as opposed to the par 72 of The Old Course at St Andrews, the 2000 site. In fact, the to-par record broken by Woods was not held by Norman, but by Nick Faldo, who shot -18 at The Old Course in 1990. • Greatest victory margin: 13 strokes, Old Tom Morris, 1862. This remained a record for all majors until 2000, when Woods won the U.S. Open by 15 strokes at Pebble Beach. However, Old Tom’s 13-stroke margin was achieved over just 36 holes. • Lowest 18-hole score: 63 – Mark Hayes, 2nd round, 1977; Isao Aoki, 3rd, 1980; Greg Norman, 2nd, 1986; Paul Broadhurst, 3rd, 1990; Jodie Mudd, 4th, 1991; Nick Faldo, 2nd, 1993; Payne Stewart, 4th, 1993. There is an extensive records section on the official site here.

Winners
See also: List of The Open Championship champions PO = Won in play-off Am = Amateur nat = naturalised U.S. citizen. Hutchison was British born and learned his golf in the UK, but took U.S. citizenship before claiming his Open title. Barnes and Armour were also British born but the dates on which they became US citizens are not certain, Barnes in particular may still have been a British subject at the time of his victory.

Tournament name
In Britain, the tournament is best known by its official title, The Open Championship. The tournament’s website[2] uses only this name, while UK media generally refer to the Open (with "the" in lower case).[3][4] Outside the UK, the tournament is generally called the "British Open", in part to distinguish the tournament from another of the four majors that has an ’open’ format, the U.S. Open, but mainly because other nations with similar ’open’ format golf events refer to their own nation’s open event as "the open." The PGA Tour refers to the tournament as the British Open[5], as do many media outlets in the United States, such as SportsTicker and the Associated Press.[6][7]

National summary

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Year Venue 2008 Royal Birkdale Golf Club 2007 Carnoustie Golf Links 2006 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 2005 St Andrews 2004 Royal Troon Golf Club Champion Pádraig Harrington (2) Pádraig Harrington Tiger Woods (3) Tiger Woods (2) Todd Hamilton Country Ireland Ireland

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Winning Score 283 (+3) 277 (-7)PO 1st Prize £ 750 000 £ 750 000 £ 720 000 £ 720 000 £ 720 000 £ 700 000 £ 700 000 £ 600 000 £ 500 000 £ 350 000 £ 300 000 £ 250 000 £ 200 000 £ 125 000 £ 110 000 £ 100 000 £ 95 000 £ 90 000 £ 85 000 £ 80 000 £ 80 000 £ 75 000

United States 270 (-18) United States 274 (-14) United States 274 (-10)PO United States 283 (-1) South Africa 278 (-6)PO

2003 Royal St George’s Golf Club Ben Curtis 2002 Muirfield 2001 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 2000 St Andrews 1999 Carnoustie Golf Links 1998 Royal Birkdale Golf Club 1997 Royal Troon Golf Club 1996 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 1995 St Andrews 1994 Turnberry Ernie Els David Duval Tiger Woods Paul Lawrie Mark O’Meara Justin Leonard Tom Lehman John Daly Nick Price

United States 274 (-10) United States 269 (-19) Scotland 290 (+6)PO

United States 280 (E)PO United States 272 (-12) United States 271 (-13) United States 282 (-6)PO Zimbabwe Australia England Australia England 268 (-12) 267 (-13) 272 (-12) 272 (-8) 270 (-18)

1993 Royal St George’s Golf Club Greg Norman (2) 1992 Muirfield 1991 Royal Birkdale Golf Club 1990 St Andrews 1989 Royal Troon Golf Club 1988 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 1987 Muirfield Nick Faldo (3) Ian Baker-Finch Nick Faldo (2) Mark Calcavecchia Seve Ballesteros (3) Nick Faldo

United States 275 (-13)PO Spain England 273 (-11) 279 (-5)

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1986 Turnberry Greg Norman Australia Scotland Spain

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280 (E) 282 (+2) 276 (-12) £ 70 000 £ 65 000 £ 55 000 £ 40 000 £ 32 000 £ 25 000 £ 25 000 £ 15 000 £ 12 500 £ 10 000 £ 7 500 £ 7 500 £ 5 500 £ 5 500 £ 5 500 £ 5 500 £ 5 250 £ 4 250 £ 3 000 £ 2 100 £ 2 100 £ 1 750 £ 1 500 £ 1 500 £ 1 400 £ 1 400 £ 1 250 £ 1 000 £ 1 000

1985 Royal St George’s Golf Club Sandy Lyle 1984 St Andrews 1983 Royal Birkdale Golf Club 1982 Royal Troon Golf Club Seve Ballesteros (2) Tom Watson (5) Tom Watson (4)

United States 275 (-9) United States 284 (-4) United States 276 (-4) United States 271 (-13) Spain 283 (-1)

1981 Royal St George’s Golf Club Bill Rogers 1980 Muirfield 1979 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 1978 St Andrews 1977 Turnberry 1976 Royal Birkdale Golf Club 1975 Carnoustie Golf Links 1974 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 1973 Royal Troon Golf Club 1972 Muirfield 1971 Royal Birkdale Golf Club 1970 St Andrews 1969 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 1968 Carnoustie Golf Links 1967 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1966 Muirfield 1965 Royal Birkdale Golf Club 1964 St Andrews 1963 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 1962 Royal Troon Golf Club 1961 Royal Birkdale Golf Club 1960 St Andrews 1959 Muirfield 1958 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club Tom Watson (3) Seve Ballesteros Jack Nicklaus (3) Tom Watson (2) Johnny Miller Tom Watson Gary Player (3) Tom Weiskopf Lee Trevino (2) Lee Trevino Jack Nicklaus (2) Tony Jacklin Gary Player (2) Roberto DeVicenzo Jack Nicklaus Peter Thomson (5) Tony Lema Bob Charles Arnold Palmer (2) Arnold Palmer Kel Nagle Gary Player Peter Thomson (4)

United States 281 (-7) United States 268 (-12) United States 279 (-9) United States 279 (-5)PO South Africa 282 (-2)

United States 276 (-12) United States 278 (-6) United States 278 (-10) United States 283 (-5)PO England South Africa Argentina 280 (-4) 289 (+1) 278 (-10)

United States 282 (+2) Australia 285 (-3)

United States 279 (-9) New Zealand 277 (-7)PO

United States 276 (-12) United States 284 (-4) Australia South Africa Australia 278 (-10) 284 (E) 274 (-10)PO

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1957 St Andrews 1956 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1955 St Andrews 1954 Royal Birkdale Golf Club 1953 Carnoustie Golf Links 1952 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 1951 Royal Portrush Golf Club 1950 Royal Troon Golf Club 1948 Muirfield 1947 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1946 St Andrews 1939 St Andrews 1937 Carnoustie Golf Links 1936 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1935 Muirfield 1933 St Andrews 1932 Prince’s Golf Club 1931 Carnoustie Golf Links 1930 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1929 Muirfield 1927 St Andrews 1926 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 1925 Prestwick Golf Club 1924 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1923 Royal Troon Golf Club 1921 St Andrews Bobby Locke (4) Peter Thomson (3) Peter Thomson (2) Peter Thomson Ben Hogan Bobby Locke (3) Max Faulkner Bobby Locke (2) Henry Cotton (3) Fred Daly Sam Snead Richard Burton Henry Cotton (2) Alf Padgham Alf Perry Denny Shute Gene Sarazen Tommy Armour Bobby Jones (Am) (3) Walter Hagen (4) Bobby Jones (Am) (2) Bobby Jones (Am) Jim Barnes Walter Hagen (2) Arthur Havers Jock Hutchison

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South Africa Australia Australia Australia South Africa England South Africa South Africa England Northern Ireland 279 (-9) 286 (-2) 281 (-7) 283 (-5) 287 (-1) 285 (-3) 279 (-9) 283 (-5) 288 (E) 293 (+5) £ 1 000 £ 1 000 £ 1 000 £750 £500 £300 £300 £300 £300 £150 £150 £150 £100 £100 £100 £100 £100 £100 £100 £100 £100 Am £100 £100 £100 Am £100 Am £75 £75 £75 £75 £75 £75

United States 282 (-6)

1949 Royal St George’s Golf Club Bobby Locke

United States 290 (+2) England England England England England England 290 295 290 287 283 283

1940-1945: No Championships due to World War II 1938 Royal St George’s Golf Club Reg Whitcombe

1934 Royal St George’s Golf Club Henry Cotton

United States 292PO United States 283 United States 296 (nat) United States 291 United States 292 United States 292 United States 285 United States 291 United States 300 (nat) United States 301 England 295 United States 300 United States 296PO (nat)

1928 Royal St George’s Golf Club Walter Hagen (3)

1922 Royal St George’s Golf Club Walter Hagen

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1920 Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club 1914 Prestwick Golf Club 1913 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1912 Muirfield 1910 St Andrews 1909 Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club 1908 Prestwick Golf Club 1907 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1906 Muirfield 1905 St Andrews 1903 Prestwick Golf Club 1902 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1901 Muirfield 1900 St. Andrews George Duncan Scotland

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1915-1919: No Championships due to World War I Harry Vardon (6) John Henry Taylor (5) Ted Ray James Braid (5) John Henry Taylor (4) James Braid (4) Arnaud Massy James Braid (3) James Braid (2) Harry Vardon (4) Sandy Herd James Braid John Henry Taylor (3) Harry Vardon (2) Harold Hilton (Am) (2) Harry Vardon John Henry Taylor (2) Jersey England Jersey Jersey Scotland England Scotland France Scotland Scotland Scotland Jersey Scotland Scotland England Jersey Jersey England Jersey England England Scotland England Scotland England Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland 306 304 295 303PO 299 291 291 312 300 318 296 300 307 309 309 310 307 314 316 PO 332 326 322 305 166 164 155PO 171 161 157 171 160 £50 £50 £50 £50 £50 £30 £30 £30 £30 £30 £30 £30 £30 £30 £30 £30 £30 Am £30 £30 £30 £30 £30 (Am) £10 Am - £8 £8 £10 £10 £10 £10 £10

1911 Royal St George’s Golf Club Harry Vardon (5)

1904 Royal St George’s Golf Club Jack White

1899 Royal St George’s Golf Club Harry Vardon (3) 1898 Prestwick Golf Club 1897 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 1896 Muirfield 1895 St Andrews

1894 Royal St George’s Golf Club John Henry Taylor 1893 Prestwick Golf Club 1892 Muirfield 1891 St Andrews 1890 Prestwick Golf Club 1889 Musselburgh Links 1888 St Andrews 1887 Prestwick Golf Club 1886 Musselburgh Links 1885 St Andrews 1884 Prestwick Golf Club William Auchterlonie Harold Hilton (Am) Hugh Kirkaldy John Ball (Am) Willie Park, Jnr (2) Jack Burns Willie Park, Jnr David Brown Bob Martin (2) Jack Simpson

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1883 Musselburgh Links 1882 St Andrews 1881 Prestwick Golf Club 1880 Musselburgh Links 1879 St Andrews 1878 Prestwick Golf Club 1877 Musselburgh Links 1876 St Andrews 1875 Prestwick Golf Club 1874 Musselburgh Links 1873 St Andrews 1872 Prestwick Golf Club 1871 No Championship 1870 Prestwick Golf Club 1869 Prestwick Golf Club 1868 Prestwick Golf Club 1867 Prestwick Golf Club 1866 Prestwick Golf Club 1865 Prestwick Golf Club 1864 Prestwick Golf Club 1863 Prestwick Golf Club 1862 Prestwick Golf Club 1861 Prestwick Golf Club 1860 Prestwick Golf Club Tom Morris, Jnr (3) Tom Morris, Jnr (2) Tom Morris, Jnr Tom Morris, Snr (4) Willie Park, Snr (3) Andrew Strath Tom Morris, Snr (3) Willie Park, Snr (2) Tom Morris, Snr (2) Tom Morris, Snr Willie Park, Snr Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Willie Fernie Bob Ferguson (3) Bob Ferguson (2) Bob Ferguson Jamie Anderson (3) Jamie Anderson (2) Jamie Anderson Bob Martin Willie Park, Snr (4) Mungo Park Tom Kidd Tom Morris, Jnr (4) Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland Scotland

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159PO 171 170 162 169 157 160 176 166 159 179 166 £10 £10 £10 £10 £10 £10 £10 £10 £6 £6 £6 £6

149 154 157 170 169 162 167 168 163 163 174

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Multiple winners
Twenty-six players have won more than one Open Championship, to 2008 inclusive: • 6 wins: Harry Vardon • 5 wins: James Braid, John Henry Taylor, Peter Thomson, Tom Watson • 4 wins: Walter Hagen, Bobby Locke, Old Tom Morris, Young Tom Morris, Willie Park, Snr

• 3 wins: Jamie Anderson, Seve Ballesteros, Henry Cotton, Nick Faldo, Bob Ferguson, Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Tiger Woods • 2 wins: Pádraig Harrington, Harold Hilton, Bob Martin, Greg Norman, Arnold Palmer, Willie Park, Jnr, Lee Trevino

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Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 T9 Nation Scotland United States England Australia South Africa Jersey Spain Ireland Argentina France New Zealand Northern Ireland Zimbabwe Wins 42 41 20 9 8 7 3 2 1 1 1 1 1

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Winners 22 26 12 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Back-to-back winners
• Old Tom Morris, Scotland (1861, 1862); Young Tom Morris, Scotland (1868–1870); Jamie Anderson, Scotland (1877–1879); Bob Ferguson, Scotland (1880–1882); John Henry Taylor, England (1894, 1895); Harry Vardon, England (1898, 1899); James Braid, Scotland (1905, 1906); Bobby Jones, USA (1926, 1927); Walter Hagen, USA (1928, 1929); Bobby Locke, South Africa (1949, 1950); Peter Thomson, Australia (1954–1956); Arnold Palmer, USA (1961, 1962); Lee Trevino, USA (1971, 1972); Tom Watson, USA (1982, 1983); Tiger Woods, USA (2005, 2006); Pádraig Harrington, Ireland (2007, 2008)

Future sites
2009 2010 2011 2012 Club • 2013 • • • • The Westin Turnberry Resort St Andrews Royal St George’s Golf Club Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Muirfield

Notes and references
[1] "The Open Championship - More Scottish than British". PGA Tour official website. http://www.pgatour.com/2007/travel/07/ 16/trans_071607/index.html. Retrieved on 2008-12-05. "When the very first Open Championship was held in 1860, it was an entirely Scottish affair."

[2] "The Open Championship". http://www.opengolf.com/. [3] "Birkdale ’will provide Open test’". BBC Sport. 29 April 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/ 7373852.stm. [4] "The top ten best shots at the Open". The Times. 20 July 2007. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ golf/article2108750.ece. [5] "British Open Tournament". http://www.pgatour.com/r/schedule/. [6] Malley, Frank (2006-07-24). "Woods gives blueprint for success at British Open". SportsTicker. http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/ news?slug=britishopen&prov=st&type=lgns. [7] Newberry, Paul (2006-07-24). "Through the tears, Woods hoists the claret jug for the second year in a row". Associated Press. http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/ news?slug=apbritishopen&prov=ap&type=lgns. [8] Some sources still give 17 years, 5 months and 8 days (or 17 years, 161 days), but his birth certificate was discovered in 2006. See Notes: Young Tom Morris gets 20 days older, pgatour.com, 1 August 2006.

External links
• Official web site

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