1956 Open Championship
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The 1956 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
. 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 Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a leading golf club in Merseyside in North West England. It was founded in 1869 on what was then the racecourse of the Liverpool Hunt Club, and received the "Royal" designation in 1871 due to the patronage of the Duke of Connaught of the day, who was one of Queen...
. The competition was won by Peter Thomson.
Final leaderboard
| # | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Thomson | 70-70-72-74=286 | -2 | |
| 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... |
71-74-70-74=289 | +1 | |
| 3 | Roberto De Vicenzo | 71-70-79-70=290 | +2 | |
| 4 | Gary Player Gary Player Gary Player DMS; OIG is a South African professional golfer. With his nine major championship victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. Player has won 165 tournaments on six continents over six... |
 South Africa |
71-76-73-71=291 | +3 |
| 5 | John Panton John Panton John Panton, MBE was a Scottish professional golfer, who represented Great Britain three times in the Ryder Cup.Panton was born in Pitlochry. He turned professional in 1935 and took up a job in the local golf club shop... |
74-76-72-70=292 | +4 | |
| T6 | Enrique Bertolino Enrique Bertolino Enrique Bertolino is an Argentine professional golfer.Bertolino turned professional in 1932, and competed in Europe in 1939, 1954 and 1956; and on the PGA Tour in 1940, 1947 and 1948. His best finish on the PGA Tour was 15th place in the Bing Crosby Pro-Am in 1948. In 1956, he was 6th in the... |
69-72-76-76=293 | +5 | |
| Henry Cotton | 72-76-71-74=293 | |||
| T8 | 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... |
72-81-68-73=294 | +6 | |
| Mike Souchak Mike Souchak Michael Souchak was an American professional golfer who won 15 times on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s, and played for the 1959 and 1961 Ryder Cup teams.-Early years, college:... |
74-74-74-72=294 | |||
| T10 | 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... |
72-76-75-72=295 | +7 | |
| 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... |
73-78-74-70=295 |