1955 Open Championship
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The 1955 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews
. The competition was won by Peter Thomson.
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 the Old Course at St Andrews
Old Course at St Andrews
The Old Course at St Andrews is the oldest golf course in the world. The Old Course is a public course over common land in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and is held in trust by The St Andrews Links Trust under an act of Parliament...
. The competition was won by Peter Thomson.
Final leaderboard
| # | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Thomson | 71-68-70-72=281 | -7 | |
| 2 | 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... |
73-67-73-70=283 | -5 | |
| 3 | Frank Jowle | 70-71-69-74=284 | -4 | |
| 4 | 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 |
74-69-70-72=285 | -3 |
| T5 | Harry Weetman Harry Weetman Harry Weetman was an English professional golfer.Weetman won many tournaments on the British PGA circuit in the pre-European Tour era and won the Harry Vardon Trophy for lowest stroke average in 1952 and 1956... |
71-71-70-74=286 | -2 | |
| Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck was a Belgian professional golfer.Van Donck is widely regarded as the greatest ever Belgian golfer. During his career, he won more than fifty tournaments worldwide, including many of the most prestigious national opens of Europe... |
71-72-71-72=286 | |||
| Bernard Hunt Bernard Hunt Bernard John Hunt, MBE is an English professional golfer.Hunt was born in Atherstone, Warwickshire. He turned professional in 1946 and was a leading player on the European circuit in the 1950s and 1960s. He topped the Order of Merit, which was then points-based, in 1958, 1960 and 1965... |
70-71-74-71=286 | |||
| Antonio Cerdá Antonio Cerdá Antonio Cerdá is an Argentine professional golfer.Cerdá finished second in the 1951 British Open to Max Faulkner, and second in the 1953 British Open to Ben Hogan, among seven consecutive top-ten finishes in the championship. He won several national opens in Europe in the 1950s and won the first... |
73-71-71-71=286 | |||
| Ken Bousfield Ken Bousfield Ken Bousfield was one of the leading British golfers of the immediate post-World War II period.Bousfield won a number of tournaments on the European circuit in the 1950s and 1960s, including the British PGA Championship, which is the second most prestigious tournament in the United Kingdom after... |
71-75-70-70=286 | |||
| T10 | Romualdo Barbieri | 71-71-73-72=287 | -1 | |
| Christy O'Connor Snr Christy O'Connor Snr Christy O'Connor is a former Irish professional golferO'Connor was born in Knocknacarra, Galway. He turned professional in 1946. Throughout the 1960s he won at least one professional event during each year on the British Tour, a level of consistent success matched by very few other players... |
71-75-70-71=287 |