1938 Open Championship
Encyclopedia
The 1938 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at Royal St George's Golf Club
. The competition was won by Reg Whitcombe
.
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 Royal St George's Golf Club
Royal St George's Golf Club
The Royal St George's Golf Club is one of the premier golf clubs in the United Kingdom, and one of the courses on The Open Championship rotation. It has hosted 13 Open championships since 1894, when it became the first club outside Scotland to host the championship...
. The competition was won by 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...
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Final leaderboard
| # | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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... |
71-71-75-78=295 | +15 | |
| 2 | Jimmy Adams Jimmy Adams (golfer) James Adams was a Scottish professional golfer who was chosen for five Ryder Cup sides and achieved high finishes in The Open Championship on several occasions .... |
70-71-78-78=297 | +17 | |
| 3 | Henry Cotton | 74-73-77-74=298 | +18 | |
| T4 | Dick Burton | 71-69-78-85=303 | +23 | |
| 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... |
74-72-75-82=303 | |||
| John Busson | 71-69-83-80=303 | |||
| Allan Dailey | 73-72-80-78=303 | |||
| T8 | Fred Bullock | 73-74-77-80=304 | +24 | |
| Bill Cox | 70-70-84-80=304 | |||
| T10 | Bert Gadd | 71-70-84-80=305 | +25 | |
| 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... |
71-75-79-80=305 | |||
| Bobby Locke Bobby Locke Arthur D'Arcy "Bobby" Locke was the first internationally successful South African professional golfer. He won four Open Championships.-Early years:... |
 South Africa |
73-72-81-79=305 |