1998 Open Championship

1998 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates	16–19 July 1998
Location	Southport, England
Course(s)	Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Tour(s)	European Tour; PGA Tour; Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	70[1]
Length	7,018 yards (6,417 m)[1]
Field	156 players, 81 after cut[1]
Cut	146 (+6)[1]
Prize fund	£1,700,000 ; €2,483,810; $2,750,000
Winner's share	£300,000 ; €420,000; $493,500
Champion
	Mark O'Meara
	280 (E), playoff

Southport

Location in England

Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Location in Southport, Merseyside,
north of Liverpool, England

The 1998 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 127th Open Championship, held from 16–19 July at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. In weekend wind and rain, Mark O'Meara won his second major championship of the year and first Open Championship in a playoff over Brian Watts, the 54-hole leader.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Three months earlier, O'Meara won the Masters on the final green by sinking a 20-foot (6 m) birdie putt. At age 41, he became the oldest player to win two majors in a year: Jack Nicklaus (1980), Ben Hogan (1953), and Craig Wood (1941) were all age forty. (Hogan won three majors and turned 41 two weeks after the third.)

At the previous Open at Royal Birkdale seven years earlier in 1991, O'Meara was a co-leader after 54 holes, shot 69, and tied for third.^[6]

Course

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	449	421	407	203	344	480	177	457	411	3,349	403	408	183	498	198	544	416	547	472	3,669	7,018
Par	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	34	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	5	4	36	70

Source:^[7]^[8]
Lengths of the course for previous Opens:^[1]

1991: 6,940 yards (6,346 m), par 70
1983: 6,968 yards (6,372 m), par 71
1976: 7,001 yards (6,402 m), par 72
1971: 7,080 yards (6,474 m), par 73

1965: 7,037 yards (6,435 m), par 73
1961: 6,844 yards (6,258 m)
1954: 6,867 yards (6,279 m)

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Sandy Lyle	Scotland	1985	71	72	75	72	290	+10	T19
Nick Price	Zimbabwe	1994	66	72	82	72	292	+12	T29
Mark Calcavecchia	United States	1989	69	77	73	74	293	+13	T35
Nick Faldo	England	1987, 1990, 1992	72	73	75	75	295	+15	T44
Justin Leonard	United States	1997	73	73	82	69	297	+17	T57

Source:^[3]

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Seve Ballesteros	Spain	1979, 1984, 1988	73	75	148	+8
Tom Watson	United States	1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983	73	76	149	+9
Tom Lehman	United States	1996	71	79	150	+10
John Daly	United States	1995	73	78	151	+11
Gary Player	South Africa	1959, 1968, 1974	77	74	151	+11

Source:^[9]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 16 July 1998

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	John Huston	United States	65	–5
T1	Tiger Woods	United States	65	–5
T3	Fred Couples	United States	66	–4
	Nick Price	Zimbabwe
	Loren Roberts	United States
T6	Robert Allenby	Australia	67	–3
	Brad Faxon	United States
	Fredrik Jacobson	Sweden
	Davis Love III	United States
	Vijay Singh	Fiji

Source:^[10]

Second round

Friday, 17 July 1998

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Brian Watts	United States	68-69=137	–3
T2	Nick Price	Zimbabwe	66-72=138	–2
	Justin Rose (a)	England	72-66=138
	Tiger Woods	United States	65-73=138
5	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	68-71=139	–1
T6	Stephen Ames	Trinidad and Tobago	68-72=140	E
	Fred Couples	United States	66-74=140
	Jim Furyk	United States	70-70=140
	Davis Love III	United States	67-73=140
	Mark O'Meara	United States	72-68=140
	Jesper Parnevik	Sweden	68-72=140

Source:^[9]
Amateurs: Rose (-2), García (+4), De Vooght (+6), McCarthy (+8), Kuchar (+10).

Third round

Saturday, 18 July 1998

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Brian Watts	United States	68-69-73=210	E
T2	Jim Furyk	United States	70-70-72=212	+2
	Mark O'Meara	United States	72-68-72=212
	Jesper Parnevik	Sweden	68-72-72=212
5	Justin Rose (a)	England	72-66-75=213	+3
T6	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	68-71-76=215	+5
	Brad Faxon	United States	67-74-74=215
	John Huston	United States	65-77-73=215
	Tiger Woods	United States	65-73-77=215
T10	David Duval	United States	70-71-75=216	+6
	Costantino Rocca	Italy	72-74-70=216
	Raymond Russell	Scotland	68-73-75=216
	Katsuyoshi Tomori	Japan	75-71-70=216

Source:^[11]

Final round

Sunday, 19 July 1998

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (£)
T1	Mark O'Meara	United States	72-68-72-68=280	E	Playoff
T1	Brian Watts	United States	68-69-73-70=280	E	Playoff
3	Tiger Woods	United States	65-73-77-66=281	+1	135,000
T4	Jim Furyk	United States	70-70-72-70=282	+2	76,667
	Jesper Parnevik	Sweden	68-72-72-70=282		76,667
	Justin Rose (a)	England	72-66-75-69=282		0
	Raymond Russell	Scotland	68-73-75-66=282		76,667
8	Davis Love III	United States	67-73-77-68=285	+5	49,500
T9	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	68-71-76-71=286	+6	40,850
T9	Costantino Rocca	Italy	72-74-70-70=286	+6	40,850

Source:^[3]^[12]
Amateurs: Rose (+2), García (+12), De Vooght (+19).

Playoff

The four-hole aggregate playoff was played on the concluding holes (15–18).
O'Meara birdied the first, while Watts parred, and they halved the next two holes with pars.
Watts bogeyed the final hole, while O'Meara parred to win the playoff by two strokes and the Claret Jug.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	Mark O'Meara	United States	4-4-5-4=17	–1	300,000
2	Brian Watts	United States	5-4-5-5=19	+1	188,000

Four-hole aggregate playoff on holes 15–18

Scorecard

Hole	15	16	17	18
Par	5	4	5	4
O'Meara	−1	−1	−1	−1
Watts	E	E	E	+1

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par

	Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey

Source:^[3]

References

1 2 3 4 5 "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. pp. 32, 203. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
↑ Garrity, John (27 July 1998). "Double major". Sports Illustrated.
1 2 3 4 Ferguson, Doug (20 July 1998). "O'Meara on the mark again". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1B.
↑ Parascenzo, Marino (20 July 1998). "Major Mark". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. B-1.
↑ Ferguson, Doug (20 July 1998). "British Open all American". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. (Florida). Associated Press. p. 1C.
↑ "Baker-Finch bags Open title". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). 22 July 1991. p. D1.
↑ "Royal Birkdale, hole by hole". Wilmington Star News. (North Carolina). Associated Press. 16 July 1998. p. 5C.
↑ "128th Open Championship: course". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 16 July 1998. p. 4C.
1 2 Ferguson, Doug (18 July 1998). "Birkdale takes its swing". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1D.
↑ Shapiro, Leonard (17 July 1998). "Tiger masters tame conditions". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Washington Post). p. 1B.
↑ Ferguson, Doug (19 July 1998). "Watts up in wind-blown tournament". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1B.
↑ "1998 Open Championship results". databasegolf.com. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2012.

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Preceded by 1998 U.S. Open	Major Championships	Succeeded by 1998 PGA Championship

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[ocmg11-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. pp. 32, 203. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.

[sijl98-2] Garrity, John (27 July 1998). "Double major". Sports Illustrated.

[omomagn-3] 1 2 3 4 Ferguson, Doug (20 July 1998). "O'Meara on the mark again". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1B.

[ppgmmmp-4] Parascenzo, Marino (20 July 1998). "Major Mark". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. B-1.

[boaam-5] Ferguson, Doug (20 July 1998). "British Open all American". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. (Florida). Associated Press. p. 1C.

[ergbti-6] "Baker-Finch bags Open title". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). 22 July 1991. p. D1.

[wmshbh-7] "Royal Birkdale, hole by hole". Wilmington Star News. (North Carolina). Associated Press. 16 July 1998. p. 5C.

[98brocse-8] "128th Open Championship: course". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 16 July 1998. p. 4C.

[btisw-9] 1 2 Ferguson, Doug (18 July 1998). "Birkdale takes its swing". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1D.

[tmtcns-10] Shapiro, Leonard (17 July 1998). "Tiger masters tame conditions". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Washington Post). p. 1B.

[wuiwbt-11] Ferguson, Doug (19 July 1998). "Watts up in wind-blown tournament". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. p. 1B.

[dbg1998oc-12] "1998 Open Championship results". databasegolf.com. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2012.

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