1888 Open Championship

1888 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates 6, 8 October 1888
Location St Andrews, Scotland
Course(s) Old Course at St Andrews
Statistics
Field 52 players[1]
Prize fund £20
Winner's share £8
Champion
Scotland Jack Burns
171
St Andrews
Location in Scotland

The 1888 Open Championship was the 28th Open Championship, held 6 October at the Old Course at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Jack Burns won the Championship by a stroke from David Anderson, Jr. and Ben Sayers.

Willie Campbell led after 18 holes for the third successive year and was the leader on 84 with Sayers on 85 and a group of four players on 86.

In the afternoon Sayers, in the first group, scored 87 and took an early lead on 172. Campbell made a number of mistakes and scored 90 for a total of 174. Sayers was then joined on 172 by David Anderson. Playing a few groups behind, Burns scored an 85 and took the lead on 171, a score none of the later players could match.

Burns's score for his first round had originally been added up to 87 but an R&A member noticed that it was added up incorrectly and the total was adjusted to 86, making Burns the champion.[2]

Final leaderboard

Source:[3]

Saturday, 6 October 1888

PlacePlayerCountryScoreMoney
1Jack Burns Scotland86-85=171£8
T2David Anderson, Jr. Scotland86-86=172Playoff
Ben Sayers Scotland85-87=172
4Willie Campbell Scotland84-90=174£2
5Leslie Balfour (a) Scotland86-89=175−
T6Davie Grant Scotland88-88=17610s
Andrew Kirkaldy Scotland87-89=176
8Sandy Herd Scotland93-84=177−
9David Ayton, Sr. Scotland87-91=178−
10Johnny Laidlay (a) Scotland93-87=180−

Playoff

Monday, 8 October 1888

Anderson and Sayers played an 18-hole play-off two days later. Sayers won and took the second prize of £6, Anderson taking the third prize of £3.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. p. 148. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Jack Burns of St. Andrews by Dudley Woods" (PDF). British Golf Collectors’ Society. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  3. 1 2 Brenner, Morgan G. (2009). The Majors of Golf: Complete Results of the Open, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Masters, 1860-2008. 1. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3360-5.
  4. ↑ "Golf - The Championship". The Glasgow Herald. 9 October 1888. p. 3.

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