1937 Open Championship
Encyclopedia
The 1937 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at Carnoustie Golf Links
. The competition was won by Henry Cotton.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
competition held at Carnoustie Golf Links
Carnoustie Golf Links
The Carnoustie Golf Links are in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland. Its historic championship golf course is one of the venues in the Open Championship rotation.-History:...
. The competition was won by Henry Cotton.
Final leaderboard
| # | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henry Cotton | 74-72-73-71=290 | +6 | |
| 2 | Reg Whitcombe Reg Whitcombe Reginald Arthur Whitcombe was an English professional golfer.Whitcombe began his career at Came Down Golf Club in Dorset and served in the British armed forces during World War I. He was the professional at Parkstone Golf Club from 1 January 1928 until his death in 1957... |
72-70-74-76=292 | +8 | |
| 3 | Charles Lacey | 76-75-70-72=293 | +9 | |
| 4 | Charles Whitcombe Charles Whitcombe Charles Whitcombe was the second of the three Whitcombe brothers who were all successful English professional golfers in the 1920s and 1930s and - despite never winning The Open Championship like his younger brother Reg - could be considered the most prominent of the three, winning the British PGA... |
73-71-74-76=294 | +10 | |
| 5 | Byron Nelson Byron Nelson John Byron Nelson, Jr. was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946.Nelson and two other well known golfers of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, were born within seven months of each other in 1912... |
75-76-71-74=296 | +12 | |
| 6 | Ed Dudley | 70-74-78-75=297 | +13 | |
| T7 | Alf Padgham Alf Padgham Alfred Harry Padgham was one of the leading British professional golfers of the 1930s and 1940s.Padgham was born in Caterham, Surrey... |
72-74-76-76=298 | +14 | |
| W. Laidlaw | 77-72-73-76=298 | |||
| Arthur Lacey Arthur Lacey Arthur Lacey was an English professional golfer who finished in the top ten of The Open Championship on a number of occasions in the 1930s... |
75-73-75-75=298 | |||
| 10 | Horton Smith Horton Smith Horton Smith was an American professional golfer, who is best known as the first man to win the Masters Tournament.- Tournament career :... |
77-71-79-72=299 | +15 |