1960 Open Championship
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The 1960 Open Championship was a golf
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 Kel Nagle
Kel Nagle
Kelvin David George Nagle is an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975.Nagle was born in North Sydney...

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Final leaderboard

#PlayerCountryScoreTo par
1 Kel Nagle
Kel Nagle
Kelvin David George Nagle is an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975.Nagle was born in North Sydney...

69-67-71-71=278 -10
2 Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer
Arnold Daniel Palmer is an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955...

 
70-71-70-68=279 -9
T3 Roberto De Vicenzo  67-67-75-73=282 -6
Harold Henning
Harold Henning
Harold Henning was a South African professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour....

 
 South Africa 72-72-69-69=282
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...

 
72-73-71-66=282
6 Guy Wolstenholme
Guy Wolstenholme
Guy Bertram Wolstenholme was an English professional golfer. He had a successful career both as an amateur and then as a professional.Wolstenholme was born in Leicester, and is the father of Gary Wolstenholme....

 (a)
74-70-71-68=283 -5
7 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 72-71-72-69=284 -4
8 Joe Carr (a) 72-73-67-73=285 -3
T9 Syd Scott  73-71-67-75=286 -2
David Blair (a) 70-73-71-72=286
Eric Brown
Eric Brown (golfer)
Eric Chalmers Brown was a Scottish professional golfer.Brown was born in Bathgate and played at the local golf course. He represented Great Britain in the Ryder Cup in 1953, 1955, 1957 and 1959 and had a 4-4-0 win-loss-half record. He won all of his four singles matches but lost his four foursomes...

 
75-68-72-71=286
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...

 
74-70-71-71=286
Peter Thomson  72-69-75-70=286
Dai Rees
Dai Rees
David James Rees, CBE was one of the Britain's leading golfers either side of World War II.The winner of many prestigious tournaments in Britain, Europe and farther afield, Rees is best remembered as the captain of the Great Britain Ryder Cup team which defeated the United States at Lindrick Golf...

73-71-73-69=286
(a) denotes amateur

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