1949 Open Championship
Encyclopedia
The 1949 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at Royal St George's Golf Club
. The competition was won by Bobby Locke
.
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 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:...
.
Final leaderboard
| # | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 |
69-76-68-70=283 | -5 |
| 2 | Harry Bradshaw Harry Bradshaw (golfer) Harry Bradshaw was a leading Irish professional golfer of the 1940s and 1950s.Bradshaw was born in Delgany, Wicklow. He was the son of the Delgany professional golfer Ned Bradshaw and he and his three brothers Jimmy, Eddie and Hughie all became professional golfers... |
68-77-68-70=283 | ||
| 3 | Roberto De Vicenzo | 68-75-73-69=285 | -3 | |
| T4 | Sam King Sam King Samuel Leonard King was an English professional golfer, best known for playing on three Ryder Cup teams.... |
71-69-74-72=286 | -2 | |
| Charlie Ward Charlie Ward (golfer) Charles Harold Ward was a prominent English golfer of the 1940s, winner of the British Order of Merit in both 1948 and 1949, and twice finishing third in The Open Championship, in 1948 and 1951... |
73-71-70-72=286 | |||
| T6 | Max Faulkner Max Faulkner Herbert Gustavus Max Faulkner, OBE was an English professional golfer who won The Open Championship in 1951 and was renowned for his colourful dress sense.... |
71-71-71-74=287 | -1 | |
| Arthur Lees Arthur Lees Arthur Lees was an English professional golfer who played from the 1930s to 1960s. He was a member of four Great Britain Ryder Cup teams in the late 1940s and 1950s, and won several tournaments in Europe during his career... |
74-70-72-71=287 | |||
| T8 | 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 .... |
67-77-72-72=288 | E | |
| John Fallon John Fallon (golfer) Johnny Fallon was a Scottish professional golfer whose career spanned the years either side of World War II. Although never a winner of a major tournament of note, Fallon often contended with high finishes - he lost the final of the 1954 British PGA Matchplay Championship, and was perhaps most... |
69-75-72-72=288 | |||
| Walter Smithers | 72-75-70-71=288 |