2011 Open Championship
Encyclopedia
The 2011 Open Championship was the 140th Open Championship, played from July 14–17 at Royal St George's Golf Club
in Sandwich
, Kent
, England
. Darren Clarke
of Northern Ireland
won the event by three strokes for his first major championship
victory.
won his first major championship
, finishing as the only player under par at −1, a stroke clear of Vijay Singh
and Thomas Bjørn
. The course has been lengthened by 100 yards and par changed to 70, having been 71 for the 2003 Championship.
1. Past Open Champions aged 60 or under on 17 July 2011
Mark Calcavecchia
, Stewart Cink
(2,4,20), Ben Curtis
(2,4), John Daly
, David Duval
(2), Ernie Els
(2,4,6,7,16), Todd Hamilton
(2), Pádraig Harrington
(2,4,6,7,14,20), Paul Lawrie
, Tom Lehman
, Justin Leonard
(4), Sandy Lyle
, Mark O'Meara
, Louis Oosthuizen
(2,4,5,6,7)
2. The Open Champions for 2001–2010
3. Past Open Champions born between 17 July 1945 and 19 July 1948
(This exemption category was introduced in 2008 when the age limit for past Open Champions was reduced from 65 to 60. It enabled those past Champions aged 60 to 65 at that time to continue playing until they were 65. Johnny Miller
is now the only player in this category. He has not played in the Open since 1991.)
4. Past Open Champions finishing in the top 10 and tying for 10th place in The Open Championship 2006–2010
Tom Watson
5. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2010 Open Championship
Paul Casey
(6,7,8,16), Retief Goosen
(6,7,16), Martin Kaymer
(6,7,14,20), Rory McIlroy
(6,7,12,20), Sean O'Hair
, Robert Rock
, Henrik Stenson
(15), Nick Watney
(6,16), Lee Westwood
(6,7,20)
6. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Rankings
for Week 22, 2011
Robert Allenby
(16), Jonathan Byrd
, K. J. Choi
(15,16), Ben Crane
(16), Jason Day (16), Luke Donald
(7,8,16, 20), Rickie Fowler
(20), Jim Furyk
(16,20), Bill Haas
, Anders Hansen
(7), Peter Hanson
(7,20), Miguel Ángel Jiménez
(7,20), Dustin Johnson
(16,20), Zach Johnson
(13,16,20), Robert Karlsson
(7), Kim Kyung-tae
(24), Matt Kuchar
(16,20), Martin Laird
(16), Hunter Mahan
(16,20), Matteo Manassero
, Graeme McDowell
(7,12,20), Phil Mickelson
(13,16,20), Francesco Molinari
(7,20), Edoardo Molinari
(7,20), Ryan Moore (16), Geoff Ogilvy
(16,22), Ryan Palmer
(16), Ian Poulter
(7,20), Álvaro Quirós
(7), Justin Rose
(16), Rory Sabbatini
, Charl Schwartzel
(7,13,23), Adam Scott (16), Brandt Snedeker
, Steve Stricker
(16,20), Bo Van Pelt
(16), Bubba Watson
(16,20), Y. E. Yang
(14)
7. First 30 in the PGA European Tour Final Race to Dubai for 2010
Fredrik Andersson Hed
, Darren Clarke
, Rhys Davies
, Ross Fisher
(20), Stephen Gallacher
, Richard Green
, Grégory Havret
, Simon Khan
(8), Joost Luiten
, Thongchai Jaidee
, Danny Willett
8. The BMW PGA Championship winners for 2009–2011
9. First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt having applied above, in the top 20 of the 2011 PGA European Tour
Race to Dubai on completion of the 2011 BMW PGA Championship
Thomas Aiken
, Raphaël Jacquelin
10. First 2 European Tour members and any European Tour members tying for 2nd place, not exempt, in a cumulative money list taken from all official PGA European Tour events from the 2011 BMW PGA Championship up to and including the BMW International Open
and including the U.S. Open
Sergio García
, Pablo Larrazábal
11. The leading player, not exempt having applied above, in the first 5 and ties of each of the 2011 Alstom Open de France and the 2011 Barclays Scottish Open
Thorbjørn Olesen
, Scott Jamieson
12. The U.S. Open
Champions for 2007–2011
Ángel Cabrera
(13), Lucas Glover
13. The U.S. Masters Champions for 2007–2011
Trevor Immelman
14. The U.S. PGA Champions
for 2006–2010
15. The U.S. PGA Tour Players Champions
for 2009–2011
16. Top 30 on the Official 2010 PGA Tour
FedEx Cup
points list
Charley Hoffman
, Kevin Na
, Jeff Overton
(20), Kevin Streelman
, Camilo Villegas
17. First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt having applied #6, in the top 20 of the FedEx Cup
points list of the 2011 PGA Tour on completion of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial
Aaron Baddeley
, Mark Wilson
, Gary Woodland
18. First 2 PGA Tour members and any PGA Tour members tying for 2nd place, not exempt, in a cumulative money list taken from The Players Championship
and the five PGA Tour events leading up to and including the 2011 AT&T National
Harrison Frazar
, Fredrik Jacobson
19. The leading player, not exempt having applied above, in the first 5 and ties of each of the 2011 AT&T National
and the 2011 John Deere Classic
Charles Howell III
, Kyle Stanley
20. Playing members of the 2010 Ryder Cup
teams
21. First place on the 2010 Asian Tour
Order of Merit
Noh Seung-yul
22. First place on the 2010 PGA Tour of Australasia
Order of Merit
23. First place on the 2010 Sunshine Tour
Order of Merit
24. The 2010 Japan Open
Champion
25. First 2, not exempt, on the Official Money List of the Japan Golf Tour
for 2010
Hiroyuki Fujita
, Ryo Ishikawa
26. The leading 4 players, not exempt, in the 2011 Mizuno Open
Bae Sang-moon
, Hwang Jung-gon
, Brad Kennedy
, Prayad Marksaeng
27. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt having applied (26) above, in a cumulative money list taken from all official 2011 Japan Golf Tour
events up to and including the 2011 Mizuno Open
Hiroo Kawai
, Tadahiro Takayama
28. The Senior British Open
Champion for 2010
Bernhard Langer
29. The 2011 Amateur
Champion
Bryden Macpherson
(a)
30. The 2010 U.S. Amateur Champion
Peter Uihlein
(a)
31. The 2010 European Individual Amateur
Champion
Lucas Bjerregaard (a)
International Final Qualifying
Local Final Qualifying
Alternates
To make up the full entry of 156, additional players are drawn from the Official World Golf Rankings
dated 3 July 2011 (provided the player was entered in the Open and did not withdraw from qualifying).
, Thomas Bjørn
(who gained entry into the tournament as the fifth alternate) shot a −5 (65) in the morning to set the early pace. Surprisingly, 20-year-old amateur Tom Lewis
, a later starter, tied Bjørn's score at −5 to share the first round lead. Lewis is the first amateur to hold at least a share of the lead after 18 holes since Michael Bonallack
in 1968
.
He also carded the lowest single-round score by an amateur at The Open Championship
. 47-year-old Miguel Ángel Jiménez
, 2009 U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover
, and Webb Simpson
all shot −4 (66) to finish one off the lead. Pre-tournament favourite Rory McIlroy
, the reigning U.S. Open
champion, bogeyed his first hole and shot a +1 (71); world number one Luke Donald
and number two Lee Westwood
matched that score. Defending champion Louis Oosthuizen
struggled in the calmer afternoon conditions, managing only a 72. Dustin Johnson
earned shot of the day honors late in the morning when he aced the par-3 16th hole, part of a five-under-par four hole stretch from 14 through 17. He finished at E. The large group at −2, three off the leaders, included 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell
, and reigning PGA Championship
champion Martin Kaymer
.
shot a +4 (74) to fade back into the chasing pack. The clubhouse lead was taken by Lucas Glover
, who started the day one stroke back and posted a steady level-par 70 to stay at −4. He was soon matched by veteran Darren Clarke
who reached the mark with a rare closing birdie. As the wind picked up in the afternoon, first round co-leader Thomas Bjørn
struggled to an up-and-down 72 to finish at −3. At various times, Miguel Ángel Jiménez
and Simon Dyson
took the lead, but struggled on their back nines; Jiménez finished at −3 and Dyson at E. Joining Bjørn and Jiménez one shot back were Chad Campbell
and Martin Kaymer
.
Tom Watson
, playing with Tom Lewis
, earned the second ace of the tournament, by holing out on the 6th hole for a hole in one. The 61-year-old Watson finished with a 70 to comfortably make the cut; he became the oldest ever player to make an Open cut. Pre-tournament favourite Rory McIlroy
played better on Friday shooting a −1 (69) to finish at even par, earning himself a third straight round alongside Rickie Fowler
.
Notables who missed the cut included World No. 1 Luke Donald
, World No.2 Lee Westwood
, Graeme McDowell
, Matt Kuchar
, Nick Watney
, and Pádraig Harrington
.
Amateurs: Lewis
(−1), Uihlein
(+2), Macpherson
(+4), Bjerregaard (+8), Hinton (+29).
, using his 35 years of Open experience to survive the worst of the weather and move up the field with a +2 (72). Rickie Fowler
shot a fine −2 (68), still battling much of the worst of the weather, to move into contention at −2. Co-leader Darren Clarke
, in the final pairing, shot a −1 (69) to take the 54 hole lead at −5 over Dustin Johnson
, who moved at −4. Johnson would find himself in the final Sunday pairing for the third time in six majors, after the U.S Open and PGA Championship
. Clarke's fellow second-round leader, Lucas Glover
, shot a +3 (74) to fall back to −1. Four-time major winner Phil Mickelson
shot a +1 (71) to move back to E, while Thomas Bjørn
, repeating his strong showing at the 2003 Open
on this course, shot a +1 (71) and was at −2.
won his first major championship, in his 20th Open, shooting a final round 70 to win by three shots. Fellow 40-something Phil Mickelson
charged to a front nine 30, a tie for his lowest nine hole stretch in a major. Mickelson made eagle on the 7th hole to tie for the lead and added a birdie on the 10th to move to 6 under for the day; but Clarke, three groups behind, countered with his own eagle on the 7th to open up a two shot lead. A short missed par putt stalled Mickelson's momentum, and he faded on the back nine with three further bogeys to finish −2, in a tie for second. Dustin Johnson
, playing with Clarke, also made a strong challenge, and was two shots out of the lead, at −5, headed to the par-5 14th hole. Johnson tried to reach the green with an 2 iron from the fairway, but pushed it right and out of bounds to end any chances of a comeback; he would take double-bogey seven to fall four back. This gave Clarke a four-stroke cushion over his nearest rivals with four holes to play, and he cruised to victory even despite bogeys on his final two holes. He became the third Northern Irish
champion in the past six majors, as well as the oldest debut major-winner, and oldest Open Champion, since Roberto De Vicenzo in 1967
. Earlier in the day, Sergio García
, playing his 49th consecutive major, had threatened to go low after being −4 for his round late on his front nine, but he faded to a −2 (68), and T9. This still matched the low round of the day alongside Mickelson. Thomas Bjørn
, eight years on from his Open drama, produced another steady round to finish alone in fourth. Tom Watson
, fresh from becoming the oldest player to complete all four days at an Open, fired his third 72 of the week and finished in a tie for 22nd. Simon Dyson
tied for 9th to take low Englishman honours.
Amateurs: Lewis
(+9), Uihlein
(+12).
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...
in Sandwich
Sandwich, Kent
Sandwich is a historic town and civil parish on the River Stour in the Non-metropolitan district of Dover, within the ceremonial county of Kent, south-east England. It has a population of 6,800....
, Kent
Kent
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, England
England
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. Darren Clarke
Darren Clarke
Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the...
of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
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won the event by three strokes for his first major championship
Men's major golf championships
The men's major golf championships, commonly known as the Major Championships, and often referred to simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf...
victory.
Venue
The 2011 event was the 14th time The Open Championship has been played at Royal St George's. The last occasion was in 2003 when Ben CurtisBen Curtis (golfer)
Ben Clifford Curtis is an American professional golfer best known for winning the 2003 Open Championship.-Early career:Curtis was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in Ostrander, Ohio. His family runs the , also in Ostrander...
won his first major championship
Men's major golf championships
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, finishing as the only player under par at −1, a stroke clear of Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh, CF , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer who was Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. He has won three major championships and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003, 2004 and 2008...
and Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team...
. The course has been lengthened by 100 yards and par changed to 70, having been 71 for the 2003 Championship.
Course layout
Field
Each year, around two thirds of The Open Championship field consists of players that are fully exempt from qualifying for the Open. The players who have already qualified for the 2011 Open Championship are listed below. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.1. Past Open Champions aged 60 or under on 17 July 2011
Mark Calcavecchia
Mark Calcavecchia
Mark John Calcavecchia is an American professional golfer and a former PGA Tour member. During his professional career, he has won thirteen PGA Tour events, including the 1989 Open Championship. Calcavecchia currently plays on the Champions Tour.-Early years:Calcavecchia was born in Laurel,...
, Stewart Cink
Stewart Cink
Stewart Ernest Cink is an American professional golfer who won the 2009 Open Championship. He has spent over 40 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings from 2004 to 2009.-Early years and education:...
(2,4,20), Ben Curtis
Ben Curtis (golfer)
Ben Clifford Curtis is an American professional golfer best known for winning the 2003 Open Championship.-Early career:Curtis was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in Ostrander, Ohio. His family runs the , also in Ostrander...
(2,4), John Daly
John Daly (golfer)
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, David Duval
David Duval
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(2), Ernie Els
Ernie Els
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(2,4,6,7,16), Todd Hamilton
Todd Hamilton
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(2), Pádraig Harrington
Padraig Harrington
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(2,4,6,7,14,20), Paul Lawrie
Paul Lawrie
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, Tom Lehman
Tom Lehman
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, Justin Leonard
Justin Leonard
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(4), Sandy Lyle
Sandy Lyle
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, Mark O'Meara
Mark O'Meara
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, Louis Oosthuizen
Louis Oosthuizen
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(2,4,5,6,7)
- Eligible but not competing: Ian Baker-FinchIan Baker-FinchIan Michael Baker-Finch is an Australian professional golfer, who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1991.-Early years:...
, Nick FaldoNick FaldoSir Nicholas Alexander "Nick" Faldo, MBE is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No...
, Greg NormanGreg NormanGregory John Norman AO is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's Number 1 ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s...
(4), Nick PriceNick PriceNicholas Raymond Leige Price is a South African-Zimbabwean Professional golfer and an inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-1990s, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.-Background:...
, Bill RogersBill Rogers (golfer)William Charles Rogers is an American professional golfer who is best known as the winner of the 1981 Open Championship.... - Tiger WoodsTiger WoodsEldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No...
(2,4,6,12,14,20) withdrew with a knee injury
2. The Open Champions for 2001–2010
3. Past Open Champions born between 17 July 1945 and 19 July 1948
(This exemption category was introduced in 2008 when the age limit for past Open Champions was reduced from 65 to 60. It enabled those past Champions aged 60 to 65 at that time to continue playing until they were 65. Johnny Miller
Johnny Miller
John Laurence Miller is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. He was one of the top players in the world during the mid-1970s; he ranked second in the world on Mark McCormack's world golf rankings in both 1974 and 1975 behind Jack Nicklaus. He is currently the lead golf...
is now the only player in this category. He has not played in the Open since 1991.)
4. Past Open Champions finishing in the top 10 and tying for 10th place in The Open Championship 2006–2010
Tom Watson
Tom Watson (golfer)
Thomas Sturges Watson is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and now mostly on the Champions Tour....
5. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2010 Open Championship
2010 Open Championship
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Paul Casey
Paul Casey
Paul Alexander Casey is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. In 2009 he achieved his highest position, third, in the Official World Golf Rankings....
(6,7,8,16), Retief Goosen
Retief Goosen
Retief Goosen is a South African professional golfer who has been in the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for over 250 weeks between 2001 and 2007. His main achievements have been two U.S...
(6,7,16), Martin Kaymer
Martin Kaymer
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(6,7,14,20), Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer from Holywood in County Down. He has represented Europe, Great Britain & Ireland, and Ireland as both an amateur and a professional. He had a successful amateur career, topping the World Amateur Golf Ranking for one week as a 17-year-old in 2007...
(6,7,12,20), Sean O'Hair
Sean O'Hair
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, Robert Rock
Robert Rock
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, Henrik Stenson
Henrik Stenson
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(15), Nick Watney
Nick Watney
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(6,16), Lee Westwood
Lee Westwood
Lee John Westwood OBE is an English professional golfer. Noted for his consistency, Westwood is one of the few golfers who has won tournaments on every major continent, including victories on the European Tour and the PGA Tour. He was named player of the year for the 1998, 2000, and 2009 seasons...
(6,7,20)
6. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Rankings
Official World Golf Rankings
The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of male professional golfers...
for Week 22, 2011
Robert Allenby
Robert Allenby
Robert Allenby is an Australian professional golfer.Allenby was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father was from Leeds, England and emigrated to Australia as a young man.-Professional career:...
(16), Jonathan Byrd
Jonathan Byrd (golfer)
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, K. J. Choi
Choi Kyung-Ju
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(15,16), Ben Crane
Ben Crane
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(16), Jason Day (16), Luke Donald
Luke Donald
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(7,8,16, 20), Rickie Fowler
Rickie Fowler
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(20), Jim Furyk
Jim Furyk
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(16,20), Bill Haas
Bill Haas
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, Anders Hansen
Anders Hansen
Anders Rosenberg Hansen is a Danish professional golfer.Hansen was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. He turned professional in 1995...
(7), Peter Hanson
Peter Hanson
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(7,20), Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Miguel Angel Jiménez
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(7,20), Dustin Johnson
Dustin Johnson
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(16,20), Zach Johnson
Zach Johnson
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(13,16,20), Robert Karlsson
Robert Karlsson
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(7), Kim Kyung-tae
Kim Kyung-tae
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(24), Matt Kuchar
Matt Kuchar
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(16,20), Martin Laird
Martin Laird
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(16), Hunter Mahan
Hunter Mahan
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(16,20), Matteo Manassero
Matteo Manassero
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, Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell
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(7,12,20), Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson
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(13,16,20), Francesco Molinari
Francesco Molinari
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(7,20), Edoardo Molinari
Edoardo Molinari
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(7,20), Ryan Moore (16), Geoff Ogilvy
Geoff Ogilvy
Geoff Charles Ogilvy is an Australian professional golfer. He won the 2006 U.S. Open and has also won three World Golf Championships.-Professional career:...
(16,22), Ryan Palmer
Ryan Palmer
Ryan Palmer is a chess player of Jamaican origin; he was the Jamaican National Champion in 1992. During the academic years of 2004-2007, he taught mathematics at Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire, and now has moved to the United States, to pursue further studies...
(16), Ian Poulter
Ian Poulter
Ian James Poulter is an English professional golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has previously been as high as number five in the world rankings...
(7,20), Álvaro Quirós
Álvaro Quirós
Álvaro Quirós García is a Spanish professional golfer.Quirós was born in Guadiaro, a borough of San Roque, Cádiz. He turned professional in 2004.-Professional career:...
(7), Justin Rose
Justin Rose
Justin Peter Rose is a South African-born English professional golfer who plays most of his golf on the PGA Tour while keeping his membership on the European Tour...
(16), Rory Sabbatini
Rory Sabbatini
Rory Mario Trevor Sabbatini is a South African professional golfer.Rory Sabbatini was born in Durban, South Africa. He started playing golf at age 4, but concentrated on it from age 12. He was recruited by the University of Arizona, turned professional in 1998 and joined the PGA Tour in 1999...
, Charl Schwartzel
Charl Schwartzel
Charl Adriaan Schwartzel is a South African professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, European Tour, and the Sunshine Tour. He won the 2011 Masters Tournament. Schwartzel's highest world ranking has been number seven, in May 2011....
(7,13,23), Adam Scott (16), Brandt Snedeker
Brandt Snedeker
Brandt Snedeker is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Early years through College:Snedeker was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He was introduced to golf by his maternal grandmother, who managed a golf course in Missouri...
, Steve Stricker
Steve Stricker
Steven Stricker is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour including the 2001 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and two FedEx Cup playoff events. His most successful season on tour came in 2009, when he had three tournament victories...
(16,20), Bo Van Pelt
Bo Van Pelt
Bo Van Pelt is an American professional golfer who has played on both the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.Van Pelt was born in Richmond, Indiana...
(16), Bubba Watson
Bubba Watson
Gerry "Bubba" Watson is an American professional golfer. Watson is one of the few left-handed golfers on tour and is known for his tremendous length. The longest driver on the PGA Tour, in 2007 he had an average drive of 315.2 yards and is capable of generating a ball speed of 194 mph, being...
(16,20), Y. E. Yang
Yang Yong-eun
Yang Yong-eun , or Y. E. Yang, is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour, where he has won twice, including most notably the 2009 PGA Championship where he held off the challenge of Tiger Woods during the final round....
(14)
- Tim Clark (15,16) withdrew with an elbow injury
- David TomsDavid TomsDavid Wayne Toms is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won a total of thirteen events on the PGA Tour including the 2001 PGA Championship...
withdrew with a hip injury
7. First 30 in the PGA European Tour Final Race to Dubai for 2010
Fredrik Andersson Hed
Fredrik Andersson Hed
Fredrik Andersson Hed is a Swedish golfer.Andersson Hed was born in Halmstad. He turned professional in 1992. He has had two victories on the Challenge Tour but found success hard to come by on the main European Tour, where he had to return to qualifying school on numerous occasions...
, Darren Clarke
Darren Clarke
Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the...
, Rhys Davies
Rhys Davies (golfer)
Rhys Davies is a Welsh professional golfer.Davies was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but has lived in Wales for the majority of his life. He played collegiate golf in the United States at East Tennessee State University where he won ten times...
, Ross Fisher
Ross Fisher
Ross Daniel Fisher is an English professional golfer, who plays on the European Tour.Fisher was born in Ascot, Berkshire. His home course is the famous Wentworth Golf Club, Surrey, England, location of the European Tour administrative headquarters. As a child, he attended Charters School, a state...
(20), Stephen Gallacher
Stephen Gallacher
Stephen James Gallacher is a Scottish professional golfer.Gallacher was born in Dechmont, West Lothian and is the nephew of former European Ryder Cup Captain Bernard Gallacher. He played in a victorious Walker Cup side in 1995 and turned professional later that year.Gallacher first played on the...
, Richard Green
Richard Green (golfer)
Richard George Green is an Australian professional golfer.Green was born in Williamstown, Melbourne, Victoria. He turned professional in 1992, and joined the PGA Tour of Australasia the same year....
, Grégory Havret
Gregory Havret
Grégory Havret is a French professional golfer.Havret won the French Amateur Championship three years in a row from 1997 to 1999, and in 1999 he won the European Amateur. He also won a minor professional tournament as an amateur, the 1998 Omnium National.Havret turned professional in 1999 and won...
, Simon Khan
Simon Khan
Simon Khan is an English professional golfer.Khan turned professional in 1991, but spent many years struggling to establish his tournament career. His first full season on the European Tour was 2002 and his first European Tour win came at the 2004 Celtic Manor Wales Open...
(8), Joost Luiten
Joost Luiten
Willibrordus Adrianus Maria "Joost" Luiten is a Dutch professional golfer.- Biography :Luiten was born in Bleiswijk. He is currently a member of the European Tour. After a failed bid for a tour card on the Qualifying School he started his professional career on the EPD Tour where he claimed the...
, Thongchai Jaidee
Thongchai Jaidee
Thongchai Jaidee is a Thai professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour and the European Tour. He holds the record for most career victories and most career earnings on the Asian Tour....
, Danny Willett
Danny Willett
Daniel John Willett is an English professional golfer.Willett was born in Sheffield, England. As an amateur, he won the English Amateur Championship in 2007 and competed in the 2007 Walker Cup at Royal County Down. In March 2008 he became the number one ranked amateur in the world.Willett also...
8. The BMW PGA Championship winners for 2009–2011
9. First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt having applied above, in the top 20 of the 2011 PGA European Tour
PGA European Tour
The PGA European Tour is an organization which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...
Race to Dubai on completion of the 2011 BMW PGA Championship
Thomas Aiken
Thomas Aiken
Thomas Edward Aiken is a South African professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.Following a successful amateur career, which included being named the South African Amateur of the Year in 2001, Aiken turned professional at the start of 2002. In 2004, he won three times on the Sunshine...
, Raphaël Jacquelin
Raphaël Jacquelin
Raphaël Jacquelin is a French professional golfer.Jacquelin was born in Lyon. He turned professional in 1995, after winning the French Amateur Championship.Jacquelin began his professional career on the Challenge Tour...
- Nicolas ColsaertsNicolas ColsaertsNicolas Colsaerts is a Belgian professional golfer.Colsaerts was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium. He turned professional in 2000, the day of his 18th birthday and went on to gain his European Tour card...
withdrew with an elbow injury
10. First 2 European Tour members and any European Tour members tying for 2nd place, not exempt, in a cumulative money list taken from all official PGA European Tour events from the 2011 BMW PGA Championship up to and including the BMW International Open
BMW International Open
The BMW International Open is an annual men's professional golf tournament on the European Tour. Founded in 1989, it has always been held in and around BMW's home city of Munich, Germany, and since 1997 has been played at the Golfclub München Eichenried....
and including the U.S. Open
2011 U.S. Open (golf)
The 2011 United States Open Championship, the 111th U.S. Open, was played June 16–19 at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. It was won by Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, who set 11 U.S. Open records on the weekend, including the lowest total 72-hole score and the lowest total under...
Sergio García
Sergio García
Sergio García Fernández is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on both the United States PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings...
, Pablo Larrazábal
Pablo Larrazabal
Pablo Larrazábal is a Spanish professional golfer currently playing on the European Tour.Larrazábal was born in Barcelona, Spain. He attended high school in the United States and returned to Spain in 2002 with the intention of turning professional but his father made him work on the family fish...
11. The leading player, not exempt having applied above, in the first 5 and ties of each of the 2011 Alstom Open de France and the 2011 Barclays Scottish Open
Thorbjørn Olesen
Thorbjørn Olesen
Jacob Thorbjørn Olesen is a Danish professional golfer.Olesen was born in Furesø and turned professional in 2008. He finished in fourth place on the third tier Nordic League rankings in 2009, having won three tournaments, to graduate to Europe's second tier Challenge Tour for 2010...
, Scott Jamieson
Scott Jamieson (golfer)
Scott Jamieson is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.-Amateur career:Jamieson was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He spent four years playing amateur golf on a scholarship at Augusta State University in the U.S...
12. The U.S. Open
U.S. Open (golf)
The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...
Champions for 2007–2011
Ángel Cabrera
Angel Cabrera
Ángel Cabrera is an Argentine professional golfer who plays on both the European Tour and PGA Tour. He is known affectionately as "El Pato" in Spanish or in English as "The duck" for his waddling gait. He is a former U.S. Open champion and Masters champion. He is the first Argentine to win either...
(13), Lucas Glover
Lucas Glover
Lucas Hendley Glover is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the 2009 U.S. Open.-Amateur career:...
13. The U.S. Masters Champions for 2007–2011
Trevor Immelman
Trevor Immelman
Trevor John Immelman is a South African professional golfer and winner of the 2008 Masters Tournament.-Early years:Immelman was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Born into a golfing family , he took up golf at the age of five. He attended Hottentots Holland High School...
14. The U.S. PGA Champions
PGA Championship
The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...
for 2006–2010
15. The U.S. PGA Tour Players Champions
The Players Championship
The Players Championship is an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour.Originally known as the Tournament Players Championship, the inaugural event in 1974 was played at Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia before moving to the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975 and Inverrary...
for 2009–2011
16. Top 30 on the Official 2010 PGA Tour
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
FedEx Cup
FedEx Cup
The FedEx Cup is a championship trophy for the PGA Tour. Its introduction marked the first time that men's professional golf had a playoff system. Announced in November 2005, it was first awarded in 2007 after a NASCAR-like points race. Bill Haas is the current champion...
points list
Charley Hoffman
Charley Hoffman
Charley Lindley Hoffman is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Hoffman was born in San Diego, California. He won the California State High School Championship in 1994 and 1995, becoming the first two time winner. He qualified three times for the Buick...
, Kevin Na
Kevin Na
Kevin Sangwook Na is a Korean American professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour.-Personal life:Na was born in Seoul, South Korea. His family immigrated to the United States when he was eight years old. He turned professional at age 17 in 2001. He later naturalized as an American citizen...
, Jeff Overton
Jeff Overton
Jeffrey Laurence Overton is an American professional golfer.Overton was born in Evansville, Indiana. He attended Indiana University, graduating in 2005 with a degree in Sports Marketing and Management....
(20), Kevin Streelman
Kevin Streelman
Kevin Streelman is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.Streelman was born in Winfield, Illinois. A graduate of Wheaton Warrenville South High School in 1997 and Duke University in 2001, Streelman turned professional in 2003...
, Camilo Villegas
Camilo Villegas
Camilo Villegas is a Colombian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour.-Early years:Villegas was born in Medellín, Colombia, and took up golf as a child...
17. First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt having applied #6, in the top 20 of the FedEx Cup
FedEx Cup
The FedEx Cup is a championship trophy for the PGA Tour. Its introduction marked the first time that men's professional golf had a playoff system. Announced in November 2005, it was first awarded in 2007 after a NASCAR-like points race. Bill Haas is the current champion...
points list of the 2011 PGA Tour on completion of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial
Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial
The Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It has been played annually in May in Fort Worth, Texas on the course at the Colonial Country Club. It is one of five invitational tournaments held on the PGA Tour...
Aaron Baddeley
Aaron Baddeley
Aaron John Baddeley is an American-Australian professional golfer. He was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA and now plays on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, has joint U.S. and Australian citizenship and was raised in Australia from the age of two...
, Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson (golfer)
Mark Joseph Wilson is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Wilson was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and currently resides in Elmhurst, Illinois.-Professional career:...
, Gary Woodland
Gary Woodland
-Early life:Woodland was born in Topeka, Kansas, and attended Shawnee Heights High School in the suburb of Tecumseh. After high school, he attended Washburn University on a basketball scholarship, but left after his freshman year to take up a golf scholarship at University of Kansas...
18. First 2 PGA Tour members and any PGA Tour members tying for 2nd place, not exempt, in a cumulative money list taken from The Players Championship
The Players Championship
The Players Championship is an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour.Originally known as the Tournament Players Championship, the inaugural event in 1974 was played at Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia before moving to the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975 and Inverrary...
and the five PGA Tour events leading up to and including the 2011 AT&T National
AT&T National
The AT&T National is a professional golf tournament held in the Washington D.C. area during the Fourth of July weekend. The PGA Tour event is hosted by Tiger Woods and benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation. The first AT&T National was held July 5–8, 2007, at the Blue Course of the Congressional...
Harrison Frazar
Harrison Frazar
Harrison Frazar is an American professional golfer who has played on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour.Frazar was born in Dallas, Texas and was raised there and in Abilene, Texas. He attended Highland Park High School, where he won two state golf championships and was a three-time all-Texas...
, Fredrik Jacobson
Fredrik Jacobson
Fredrik Ulf Yngve Jacobson is a Swedish professional golfer.Jacobson was born in Kungsbacka. He turned professional in 1994 and was a member of the European Tour in 1995 and from 1997 to 2004. In 2003 he won his first European Tour title, and went on to claim two more victories that season...
19. The leading player, not exempt having applied above, in the first 5 and ties of each of the 2011 AT&T National
AT&T National
The AT&T National is a professional golf tournament held in the Washington D.C. area during the Fourth of July weekend. The PGA Tour event is hosted by Tiger Woods and benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation. The first AT&T National was held July 5–8, 2007, at the Blue Course of the Congressional...
and the 2011 John Deere Classic
John Deere Classic
The John Deere Classic is an American professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played annually in July, the week before the British Open, at the TPC at Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois....
Charles Howell III
Charles Howell III
Charles Gordon Howell III is an American golfer. He has been featured in the top 15 of the Official World Golf Rankings.-Early years and amateur career:...
, Kyle Stanley
Kyle Stanley
Kyle Stanley is an American professional golfer.-Amateur career:Stanley was born in Gig Harbor, Washington. He was a 2002 graduate of St. Charles Borromeo elementary and middle school and a 2006 graduate of Bellarmine Preparatory School...
20. Playing members of the 2010 Ryder Cup
2010 Ryder Cup
The 38th Ryder Cup matches were held 2010 at the Celtic Manor Resort in the city of Newport, Wales. It was the first time the competition was staged in Wales. With the USA as the defending Cup holder the event was played on the newly-constructed Twenty 10 course, specifically designed for the...
teams
21. First place on the 2010 Asian Tour
Asian Tour
The Asian Tour is the principal men's professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan, which has its own Japan Golf Tour, which is also a full member of the International Federation of PGA Tours. The Asian Tour is administered from offices in Singapore...
Order of Merit
Noh Seung-yul
Noh Seung-yul
Noh Seung-yul is a South Korean professional golfer.Noh turned professional 2007 and successfully negotiated qualifying school for the 2008 Asian Tour. He won the Midea China Classic that season, and was named Asian Tour rookie of the year. In 2010 he won the Maybank Malaysian Open which was...
22. First place on the 2010 PGA Tour of Australasia
PGA Tour of Australasia
The PGA Tour of Australasia is a professional golf tour for men. Official events on the tour count for World Golf Ranking points. The tour was formed in 1973 as the PGA Tour of Australia and adopted its current name in 1991....
Order of Merit
23. First place on the 2010 Sunshine Tour
Sunshine Tour
The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...
Order of Merit
24. The 2010 Japan Open
Japan Open Golf Championship
The is Japan's national open golf championship. As of 2011, it is one of the three richest tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour, with a prize fund of ¥200 million...
Champion
25. First 2, not exempt, on the Official Money List of the Japan Golf Tour
Japan Golf Tour
The Japan Golf Tour is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third highest annual prize fund out of the regular men's professional tours after the PGA Tour and the European Tour. However since the early 1990s, the growth in prize money has not kept pace with...
for 2010
Hiroyuki Fujita
Hiroyuki Fujita
Hiroyuki Fujita is a Japanese professional golfer.Fujita has won ten tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings...
, Ryo Ishikawa
Ryo Ishikawa
, also known by the nickname "Hanikami Ōji" , is a Japanese professional golfer.On 20 May 2007, Ishikawa became the youngest winner ever of a men's regular tournament on the Japan Golf Tour by winning the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup at the age 15 years and 8 months. He competed as an amateur and it...
26. The leading 4 players, not exempt, in the 2011 Mizuno Open
Bae Sang-moon
Bae Sang-moon
Bae Sang-moon is a South Korean professional golfer.Bae turned professional in 2004. He won the 2006 Emerson Pacific Group Open on the Korean Tour, and in 2007 he won the SK Telecom Open, an Asian Tour and Korean Tour co-sanctioned event held in his home country. In 2008, he won his home country's...
, Hwang Jung-gon
Hwang Jung-gon
Hwang Jung-gon is a South Korean professional golfer.Hwang plays on the Japan Golf Tour and won his first event at the 2011 Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open. This win earned him entry into the 2011 Open Championship where he finished 71st....
, Brad Kennedy
Brad Kennedy
Brad Kennedy is an Australian professional golfer.Kennedy was born Sydney, Australia. He turned professional in 1994. He has played on the PGA Tour of Australasia, Asian Tour and European Tour. He has won several minor tournaments in Queensland...
, Prayad Marksaeng
Prayad Marksaeng
Prayad Marksaeng is a Thai professional golfer.Prayad was a member of Thailand's winning golf team at the 1987 South East Asian Games and turned professional in 1991. He has been a member of the Asian Tour since it began in its modern form in 1995. He was won six events on the tour, becoming one...
27. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt having applied (26) above, in a cumulative money list taken from all official 2011 Japan Golf Tour
Japan Golf Tour
The Japan Golf Tour is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third highest annual prize fund out of the regular men's professional tours after the PGA Tour and the European Tour. However since the early 1990s, the growth in prize money has not kept pace with...
events up to and including the 2011 Mizuno Open
Hiroo Kawai
Hiroo Kawai
is a Japanese professional golfer.Kawai has played on the Japan Golf Tour since 1997. He has one win on tour, the 2011 Japan PGA Championship Nissin Cupnoodle Cup.-External links:...
, Tadahiro Takayama
Tadahiro Takayama
is a Japanese professional golfer.Takayama was born in Wakayama. He took up golf at eighteen, an unusually advanced age for a future professional, and turned pro three years later...
28. The Senior British Open
Senior British Open Championship
The Senior Open Championship, or simply The Senior Open is a professional golf tournament for men aged 50 and over. It is run by The R&A, the same body that organises The Open Championship. Prize money won in the event is official money on both the Champions Tour and the European Seniors Tour...
Champion for 2010
Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986...
29. The 2011 Amateur
The Amateur Championship
The Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held annually in the United Kingdom. It is one of the two leading individual tournaments for amateur golfers, alongside the U.S. Amateur...
Champion
Bryden Macpherson
Bryden Macpherson
Bryden Macpherson is an Australian amateur golfer known for winning The Amateur Championship in 2011.Macpherson was born in Melbourne, Australia. He won the Dunes Medal in 2008, an amateur event in Australia, and set two course records in the process, shooting a 64 and then bettering it with a 63...
(a)
30. The 2010 U.S. Amateur Champion
Peter Uihlein
Peter Uihlein
Peter Uihlein is an American amateur golfer. He was a member of the victorious U.S. team at the 2009 Walker Cup, where he compiled a 4-0 match record. A junior at Oklahoma State University, Uihlein won the 2010 U.S...
(a)
31. The 2010 European Individual Amateur
European Amateur
The European Amateur Championship is an annual amateur golf tournament. It is played at various locations throughout Europe. It is organized by the European Golf Association and was first played in 1986. The winner receives an invitation to The Open Championship.-Winners:-External links:***...
Champion
Lucas Bjerregaard (a)
International Final Qualifying
- Australasia: Kurt BarnesKurt BarnesKurt Barnes is an Australian professional golfer.Barnes was born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales. He had a successful amateur career which included victories in the 2002 Australian Amateur, the 2003 Riversdale Cup, which he won with a record 22 under par total, and the 2003 New Zealand Amateur...
, Rick KulaczRick KulaczRick Kulacz is an Australian professional golfer.Kulacz turned professional in 2007 and has played on the PGA Tour of Australasia, Asian Tour, and European Tour...
, Matthew MillarMatthew MillarMatthew Millar is an Australian professional golfer.-Career:Millar turned professional in 1999. From 2006-2009, he played on the European Tour, having come through all three stages of qualifying school; his best year-end result was 115th in the 2006 Order of Merit... - Africa: Floris de Vries, Martin Maritz, Neil Schietekat
- Asia: Tetsuji HiratsukaTetsuji Hiratsukais a Japanese professional golfer.Hiratsuka was born in Kyoto, Japan. He has won six times on the Japan Golf Tour. He represented Japan at the 2007 Omega Mission Hills World Cup with Hideto Tanihara.-Japan Golf Tour wins :*2003 Golf Nippon Series JT Cup...
, Jason KnutzonJason KnutzonJason Knutzon is an American professional golfer.Knutzon is currently a member of the Asian Tour and the European Tour. He is one of few Americans who mainly play on the Asian Tour. Knutzon has been to PGA Tour Qualifying School once. He entered in 2000 but failed to earn a tour card...
, Lam Chih Bing, Prom MeesawatProm MeesawatProm Meesawat is a Thai professional golfer. He won his age group at the World Junior Golf Championships in 1997 and 2002 and was Asia Pacific Junior Champion several times. He won the Thailand Open Amateur Championship in 2001, 2002 and 2003 and was victorious in a professional tournament as a... - America: Chad CampbellChad CampbellDavid Chad Campbell is an American professional golfer.-Early years and amateur career:Campbell was born in Andrews, Texas and grew up in west Texas. He was a member of a strong junior college men's golf squad during the years he played at Midland College...
, Brian Davis, Bob EstesBob EstesBob Alan Estes is an American professional golfer.Estes was born in Graham, Texas and reared in Abilene, Texas. He first played golf at age 4 and decided to become a professional golfer at age 12. Estes attended the University of Texas from 1984–1988, and was a member of the golf team...
, Nathan GreenNathan GreenNathan Andrew Green is an Australian professional golfer.Green was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He turned professional in 1998. During his early career, he played mostly on the PGA Tour of Australasia, and the Canadian Tour during the Australian winter...
, Jerry KellyJerry KellyJerome Patrick Kelly is an American professional golfer.Kelly was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Hartford in 1989 and turned professional later that year, but didn't make it onto the PGA Tour until 1996. This followed a successful 1995 season on the second tier...
, Spencer LevinSpencer LevinSpencer Joseph Levin is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Levin was born in Sacramento, California. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles before transferring to the University of New Mexico, where he was a two-time All-American...
, Davis Love IIIDavis Love IIIDavis Milton Love III is an American professional golfer.Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He earned his PGA Tour card in the fall of 1985, on his first attempt. He quickly established himself on the PGA...
, Chris TidlandChris TidlandChristopher Lee Tidland is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour.Tidland was born in Torrance, California. He attended Oklahoma State University, and graduated in 1995 with a management degree... - Europe: Grégory BourdyGrégory BourdyGrégory Bourdy is a French professional golfer who competes on the European Tour.Bourdy was born in Bordeaux. He turned professional in 2003. His cousin Nicolas Beaufils is also a professional golfer, who has played on the Challenge Tour....
, Gary BoydGary BoydGary Boyd may refer to:*Gary Boyd , American baseball player*Gary Boyd , British golfer...
, Alejandro CañizaresAlejandro CañizaresJosé Alejandro Cañizares Gómez is a Spanish professional golfer.Cañizares was born in Madrid, and is the son of five-time European Tour winner and four-time European Ryder Cup team member José Maria Cañizares. He attended college in the United States, where he won the 2003 NCAA men's golf...
, George CoetzeeGeorge CoetzeeGeorge William Coetzee is a South African professional golfer.Coetzee was born in Pretoria. He started playing golf when he was 10 and won the first junior tournament he ever played in, shooting 49 in 9 holes. He finished 4th and 8th in the Callaway Junior World Championship in San Diego, where he...
, Kenneth FerrieKenneth FerrieKenneth Ferrie is an English professional golfer.Ferrie was born in Ashington, Northumberland. He won the British Boys Championship in 1996 and made his first appearance in a European Tour event that year as an invitee at his local event, the Slaley Hall Northumberland Challenge...
, Richard McEvoyRichard McEvoyRichard McEvoy is an English professional golfer.McEvoy was born in Shoeburyness, Essex. His amateur wins included the 2001 Lytham Trophy, and the 2001 Irish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship...
, Alexander NorénAlexander NorénAlexander Norén is a Swedish professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour.Norén was born in Stockholm. He attended Oklahoma State University in the United States before turning professional in 2005....
, Graeme StormGraeme StormGraeme Raymond Storm is an English professional golfer.Storm was born in Hartlepool. He learnt his trade at Hartlepool Golf Club, where he still holds the course record of 62...
, Peter WhitefordPeter WhitefordPeter William Whiteford is a Scottish professional golfer.Whiteford was born in Kirkcaldy. He turned professional in 2002....
- Thomas LevetThomas LevetThomas Levet is a French professional golfer who is a member of the European Tour and former member of the PGA Tour.Levet was born in Paris, France...
(Europe) withdrew with a leg injury
Local Final Qualifying
- Littlestone: Markus BrierMarkus BrierMarkus Brier is one of relatively few Austrian touring professional golfers, and as of 2008 is his country's highest ranked player....
, Lee Corfield, Andy Smith - Prince's: Simon Edwards, Francis McGuirk, Thomas Shadbolt
- Royal Cinque Ports: Craig Hinton (a), Andrew JohnstonAndrew Johnston (golfer)Andrew Johnston is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.-Career:Johnston was a successful Amateur, representing England boys and the Great Britain and Ireland team in the Jacques Léglise Trophy. He turned professional in 2009 and won for the first time that year on the...
, Simon Lilly - Rye: Mark Laskey, Tom LewisTom Lewis (golfer)Tom Lewis is a professional golfer from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England.In 2009, Lewis won the Boys Amateur Championship at Royal St George's. In 2010, he lost to Peter O'Malley in a playoff for the New South Wales Open, and then tied for 12th place at the Australian Open...
(a), Adam Wootton
- (a) denotes amateur
Alternates
To make up the full entry of 156, additional players are drawn from the Official World Golf Rankings
Official World Golf Rankings
The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of male professional golfers...
dated 3 July 2011 (provided the player was entered in the Open and did not withdraw from qualifying).
- Webb SimpsonWebb SimpsonJames Frederick "Webb" Simpson is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Simpson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He played high school golf at Broughton High before his collegiate golf career at Wake Forest University. He was a three-time All-American and...
(ranked 54) – As of 4 July 2011, a maximum of 151 players could qualify so the leading five players in the rankings not already qualified were offered places - J. B. HolmesJ. B. HolmesJohn Bradley "J.B." Holmes is an American professional golfer.-Early life:Holmes was born in Campbellsville, the seat of Taylor County, in central Kentucky. Holmes began to play on the varsity golf team at Taylor County High School in Campbellsville when he was in the third grade. He suffered a...
(59) - Vijay SinghVijay SinghVijay Singh, CF , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer who was Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. He has won three major championships and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003, 2004 and 2008...
(63) – subsequently withdrew with an injury. - Steve MarinoSteve MarinoStephen Paul Marino, Jr. is an American professional golfer, a member of the PGA Tour since 2007.-Early life, education, early golf:...
(64) - Yuta IkedaYuta IkedaYuta Ikeda is a Japanese professional golfer. He has played on the Japan Golf Tour since 2008 where he has won eight tournaments...
(67) - Jason DufnerJason DufnerJason Dufner is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Early life:Dufner was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to the Washington, D.C. area when he was 11 years old, and then to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida when he was 14. It was there that he started playing golf, and...
(69) replaced Tiger WoodsTiger WoodsEldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No...
(Brendan Jones (68) declined the invitation) - Robert GarrigusRobert GarrigusRobert Garrigus is an American professional golfer who is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He won the 2010 Children's Miracle Network Classic, to guarantee exempt status on the PGA Tour through the end of the 2012 season....
(70) replaced Thomas LevetThomas LevetThomas Levet is a French professional golfer who is a member of the European Tour and former member of the PGA Tour.Levet was born in Paris, France... - Anthony KimAnthony KimAnthony Ha-Jin Kim is an American professional golfer.-Amateur career:A Korean American, Kim was born in Los Angeles, California and resides in Dallas, Texas. He attended La Quinta High School in La Quinta, California. After high school, he attended the University of Oklahoma for three years; this...
(72) replaced Tim Clark - Simon DysonSimon DysonSimon Dyson is an English professional golfer who is currently a member of the European Tour, having formerly played on the Asian Tour.-Amateur career:...
(73) replaced David TomsDavid TomsDavid Wayne Toms is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won a total of thirteen events on the PGA Tour including the 2001 PGA Championship... - Thomas BjørnThomas BjørnThomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team...
(75) replaced Vijay SinghVijay SinghVijay Singh, CF , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer who was Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. He has won three major championships and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003, 2004 and 2008... - Ricky BarnesRicky BarnesRichard Kyle Barnes is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Barnes was born in Stockton, California. He played college golf at the University of Arizona...
(81) replaced Nicolas ColsaertsNicolas ColsaertsNicolas Colsaerts is a Belgian professional golfer.Colsaerts was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium. He turned professional in 2000, the day of his 18th birthday and went on to gain his European Tour card...
(Scott VerplankScott VerplankScott Rachal Verplank is an American professional golfer.Verplank was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He was a leading member of the W.T. White High School Golf Team and a regular at Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas...
(76) declined the invitation)
Made the cut
| Player | Country | Year(s) won | Score | To par | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Lehman Tom Lehman Thomas Edward Lehman is an American professional golfer.Lehman was born in Austin, Minnesota, but Alexandria, Minnesota is credited as his official Minnesota hometown. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a degree in Business/Accounting and turned professional in 1982. It took... |
1996 1996 Open Championship The 1996 Open Championship was the 125th Open Championship held from 18-21 July at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England... |
71-67-73-75=286 | +6 | T22 | |
| Tom Watson Tom Watson (golfer) Thomas Sturges Watson is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and now mostly on the Champions Tour.... |
1975 1975 Open Championship The 1975 Open Championship was a golf competition held at Carnoustie Golf Links. The competition was won by Tom Watson in an 18-hole playoff over Jack Newton, 71 to 72.-First round:-Second round:... , 1977 1977 Open Championship The 1977 Open Championship, sometimes called the "Duel in the Sun", was a golf competition held at Turnberry, Scotland, in July 1977. The competition was won by Tom Watson.... , 1980 1980 Open Championship The 1980 Open Championship was the 109th Open Championship held from 17-20 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, Scotland. Tom Watson won his third Open Championship and fourth major title by four strokes over Lee Trevino.-First round:-Second round:... , 1982 1982 Open Championship The 1982 Open Championship was the 111th Open Championship held from 15-18 July at Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Tom Watson won his fourth Open Championship, second consecutive major title, and seventh major title by one stroke over Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price.-First round:-Second... , 1983 1983 Open Championship The 1983 Open Championship was the 112th Open Championship held from 14-17 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Tom Watson won his fifth Open Championship, second consecutive Open Championship, and eighth major title by one stroke over Andy Bean and Hale Irwin.-First... |
72-70-72-72=286 | +6 | T22 | |
| Stewart Cink Stewart Cink Stewart Ernest Cink is an American professional golfer who won the 2009 Open Championship. He has spent over 40 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings from 2004 to 2009.-Early years and education:... |
2009 2009 Open Championship The 2009 Open Championship was the 138th Open Championship, one of the four major golf championships, and was played from 16–19 July at the Turnberry Resort, in Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the fourth time The Open Championship had been played at Turnberry... |
70-71-77-71=289 | +9 | T30 | |
| Louis Oosthuizen Louis Oosthuizen Lodewicus Theodorus "Louis" Oosthuizen is a South African professional golfer, who won the 2010 Open Championship.-Early life and career:... |
2010 2010 Open Championship The 2010 Open Championship was the 139th Open Championship, the oldest of golf's four majors, and was played from 15–18 July over the Old Course at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It was celebrated as the 150th anniversary of the founding of The Open in 1860... |
72-70-74-77=293 | +13 | T54 | |
| Paul Lawrie Paul Lawrie Paul Stewart Lawrie MBE is a Scottish professional golfer who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1999.-Life and career:... |
1999 1999 Open Championship The 1999 Open Championship was the 128th Open Championship held from 15-18 July at the Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, Scotland. Paul Lawrie won his first major championship in a playoff over Jean van de Velde and Justin Leonard. Lawrie, down by 10 strokes at the start of the fourth round,... |
73-70-81-73=297 | +17 | T66 |
Missed the cut
| Player | Country | Year(s) won | Score | To par |
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| Pádraig Harrington Padraig Harrington Pádraig P. Harrington is an Irish professional golfer who plays on The European Tour and The PGA Tour. He has won three major championships: The Open Championship in 2007 and 2008 and the PGA Championship, also in 2008.-Background:... |
2007 2007 Open Championship The 2007 Open Championship was the 136th Open Championship, played 19-22 July at Carnoustie Golf Links. Pádraig Harrington of Ireland defeated Sergio García of Spain in a playoff to take the title and his first major championship... , 2008 2008 Open Championship The 2008 Open Championship was the 137th Open Championship, played 17–20 July, at Royal Birkdale Golf Club, England. Pádraig Harrington of Ireland successfully defended his Open Championship title for his second Open title... |
73-71=144 | +4 | |
| Justin Leonard Justin Leonard Justin Charles Garrett Leonard is an American professional golfer.Leonard was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He attended Lake Highlands High School and graduated in 1990. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and was the individual NCAA champion in 1994. He was a two-time All-American... |
1997 1997 Open Championship The 1997 Open Championship was the 126th Open Championship held from 17-20 July at the Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Justin Leonard won his first major championship by three strokes over Jesper Parnevik and Darren Clarke.-First round:... |
70-74=144 | +4 | |
| John Daly John Daly (golfer) John Patrick Daly is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.Daly is known primarily for his driving distance off the tee , his non-country club appearance and attitude, and his rough-and-tumble personal life. Daly remains one of the most popular and intriguing figures on the PGA Tour... |
1995 1995 Open Championship The 1995 Open Championship was the 124th Open Championship held from 20-23 July at the Old Course at St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland. John Daly won his first Open Championship and second overall major championship in a four-hole playoff over Costantino Rocca.The 1995 Open is often remembered for... |
72-74=146 | +6 | |
| Mark Calcavecchia Mark Calcavecchia Mark John Calcavecchia is an American professional golfer and a former PGA Tour member. During his professional career, he has won thirteen PGA Tour events, including the 1989 Open Championship. Calcavecchia currently plays on the Champions Tour.-Early years:Calcavecchia was born in Laurel,... |
1989 1989 Open Championship The 1989 Open Championship was the 118th Open Championship held 20-23 July at the Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Mark Calcavecchia won his first major championship by winning in a four-hole playoff over Greg Norman and Wayne Grady... |
69-79=148 | +8 | |
| Ernie Els Ernie Els Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Els is a South African professional golfer, who has been one of the top professional players in the world since the mid-1990s. A former World No. 1, he is known as "The Big Easy" due to his imposing physical stature along with his fluid, seemingly effortless golf swing... |
2002 2002 Open Championship The 2002 Open Championship was the 131st Open Championship held from 18-21 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Ernie Els won his first Open Championship and third major championship in a playoff over Stuart Appleby, Steve Elkington, and ultimately in a sudden-death... |
72-76=148 | +8 | |
| Sandy Lyle Sandy Lyle Alexander Walter Barr "Sandy" Lyle, MBE is a Scottish professional golfer. Lyle has won two major championships during his career. Along with Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam, he became one of Britain's top golfers during the 1980s... |
1985 1985 Open Championship The 1985 Open Championship was the 114th Open Championship held from the 18 - 21 July at the Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England. Sandy Lyle won his first major championship by one stroke over Payne Stewart... |
73-76=149 | +9 | |
| Ben Curtis Ben Curtis (golfer) Ben Clifford Curtis is an American professional golfer best known for winning the 2003 Open Championship.-Early career:Curtis was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in Ostrander, Ohio. His family runs the , also in Ostrander... |
2003 2003 Open Championship The 2003 Open Championship was the 132nd Open Championship held from 17-20 July at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England. Ben Curtis won his first major by one stroke over Thomas Bjørn and Vijay Singh... |
77-74=151 | +11 | |
| Mark O'Meara Mark O'Meara Mark Francis O'Meara is an American professional golfer who was a prolific tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s... |
1998 1998 Open Championship The 1998 Open Championship was the 127th Open Championship held from 16-19 July at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Mark O'Meara won his second major championship of the year and first Open Championship in a playoff over Brian Watts by two strokes.-First round:-Second... |
76-76=152 | +12 | |
| David Duval David Duval David Robert Duval is an American professional golfer and former World No. 1 who competes on the PGA Tour.-Early years:... |
2001 2001 Open Championship The 2001 Open Championship was the 130th Open Championship held from 19-22 July at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England... |
78-77=155 | +15 | |
| Todd Hamilton Todd Hamilton William Todd Hamilton is an American professional golfer.Hamilton was born in the small west-central Illinois city of Galesburg. He grew up in an even smaller Henderson County town on the Mississippi called Oquawka. He attended Union High School in Biggsville, Illinois and played golf regularly on... |
2004 2004 Open Championship The 2004 Open Championship was the 133rd Open Championship, played from 15-18 July at Royal Troon Golf Club. Todd Hamilton held off Ernie Els in a playoff after carding a final round 69. Phil Mickelson finished third, followed by Lee Westwood in fourth. The win made Todd the fifth consecutive... |
77-79=156 | +16 |
First round
Returning to the course where he led by 3 with 4 holes to play in 20032003 Open Championship
The 2003 Open Championship was the 132nd Open Championship held from 17-20 July at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England. Ben Curtis won his first major by one stroke over Thomas Bjørn and Vijay Singh...
, Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team...
(who gained entry into the tournament as the fifth alternate) shot a −5 (65) in the morning to set the early pace. Surprisingly, 20-year-old amateur Tom Lewis
Tom Lewis (golfer)
Tom Lewis is a professional golfer from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England.In 2009, Lewis won the Boys Amateur Championship at Royal St George's. In 2010, he lost to Peter O'Malley in a playoff for the New South Wales Open, and then tied for 12th place at the Australian Open...
, a later starter, tied Bjørn's score at −5 to share the first round lead. Lewis is the first amateur to hold at least a share of the lead after 18 holes since Michael Bonallack
Michael Bonallack
Sir Michael Francis Bonallack, OBE is an English amateur golfer who was one of the leading administrators in world golf in the late 20th century.Bonallack was born in Chigwell, Essex. He won the British Boys Championship in 1952...
in 1968
1968 Open Championship
The 1968 Open Championship was a golf competition held at Carnoustie Golf Links. The competition was won by Gary Player.-First round:-Second round:...
.
He also carded the lowest single-round score by an amateur at The Open Championship
The Open Championship
The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...
. 47-year-old Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Miguel Angel Jiménez
Miguel Ángel Jiménez Rodríguez is a Spanish professional golfer. He has won 18 times on the European Tour.-Early years:...
, 2009 U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover
Lucas Glover
Lucas Hendley Glover is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the 2009 U.S. Open.-Amateur career:...
, and Webb Simpson
Webb Simpson
James Frederick "Webb" Simpson is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Simpson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He played high school golf at Broughton High before his collegiate golf career at Wake Forest University. He was a three-time All-American and...
all shot −4 (66) to finish one off the lead. Pre-tournament favourite Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer from Holywood in County Down. He has represented Europe, Great Britain & Ireland, and Ireland as both an amateur and a professional. He had a successful amateur career, topping the World Amateur Golf Ranking for one week as a 17-year-old in 2007...
, the reigning U.S. Open
U.S. Open (golf)
The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...
champion, bogeyed his first hole and shot a +1 (71); world number one Luke Donald
Luke Donald
Luke Campbell Donald is an English professional golfer who is the current World Number One. He plays mainly on the U.S. based PGA Tour but is also a member of the European Tour. In 2006 he reached the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time in his career. In January 2007, he...
and number two Lee Westwood
Lee Westwood
Lee John Westwood OBE is an English professional golfer. Noted for his consistency, Westwood is one of the few golfers who has won tournaments on every major continent, including victories on the European Tour and the PGA Tour. He was named player of the year for the 1998, 2000, and 2009 seasons...
matched that score. Defending champion Louis Oosthuizen
Louis Oosthuizen
Lodewicus Theodorus "Louis" Oosthuizen is a South African professional golfer, who won the 2010 Open Championship.-Early life and career:...
struggled in the calmer afternoon conditions, managing only a 72. Dustin Johnson
Dustin Johnson
Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour having been third in the driving distance stats for three consecutive years between 2009-2011....
earned shot of the day honors late in the morning when he aced the par-3 16th hole, part of a five-under-par four hole stretch from 14 through 17. He finished at E. The large group at −2, three off the leaders, included 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell MBE is a Northern Irish professional golfer.McDowell has won seven events on the European Tour, including the 2010 U.S. Open which was also his first win on the PGA Tour...
, and reigning PGA Championship
PGA Championship
The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...
champion Martin Kaymer
Martin Kaymer
Martin Kaymer is a German professional golfer. He became the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings on 27 February 2011 after his runner-up finish in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship....
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| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
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| T1 | Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team... |
65 | -5 | |
| Tom Lewis Tom Lewis (golfer) Tom Lewis is a professional golfer from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England.In 2009, Lewis won the Boys Amateur Championship at Royal St George's. In 2010, he lost to Peter O'Malley in a playoff for the New South Wales Open, and then tied for 12th place at the Australian Open... (a) |
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| T3 | Lucas Glover Lucas Glover Lucas Hendley Glover is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the 2009 U.S. Open.-Amateur career:... |
66 | -4 | |
| Miguel Ángel Jiménez Miguel Angel Jiménez Miguel Ángel Jiménez Rodríguez is a Spanish professional golfer. He has won 18 times on the European Tour.-Early years:... |
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| Webb Simpson Webb Simpson James Frederick "Webb" Simpson is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Simpson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He played high school golf at Broughton High before his collegiate golf career at Wake Forest University. He was a three-time All-American and... |
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| T6 | Fredrik Andersson Hed Fredrik Andersson Hed Fredrik Andersson Hed is a Swedish golfer.Andersson Hed was born in Halmstad. He turned professional in 1992. He has had two victories on the Challenge Tour but found success hard to come by on the main European Tour, where he had to return to qualifying school on numerous occasions... |
68 | -2 | |
| Kurt Barnes Kurt Barnes Kurt Barnes is an Australian professional golfer.Barnes was born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales. He had a successful amateur career which included victories in the 2002 Australian Amateur, the 2003 Riversdale Cup, which he won with a record 22 under par total, and the 2003 New Zealand Amateur... |
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| Ricky Barnes Ricky Barnes Richard Kyle Barnes is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Barnes was born in Stockton, California. He played college golf at the University of Arizona... |
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| Darren Clarke Darren Clarke Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the... |
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| Simon Dyson Simon Dyson Simon Dyson is an English professional golfer who is currently a member of the European Tour, having formerly played on the Asian Tour.-Amateur career:... |
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| Hwang Jung-gon Hwang Jung-gon Hwang Jung-gon is a South Korean professional golfer.Hwang plays on the Japan Golf Tour and won his first event at the 2011 Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open. This win earned him entry into the 2011 Open Championship where he finished 71st.... |
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| Martin Kaymer Martin Kaymer Martin Kaymer is a German professional golfer. He became the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings on 27 February 2011 after his runner-up finish in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.... |
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| Pablo Larrazábal Pablo Larrazabal Pablo Larrazábal is a Spanish professional golfer currently playing on the European Tour.Larrazábal was born in Barcelona, Spain. He attended high school in the United States and returned to Spain in 2002 with the intention of turning professional but his father made him work on the family fish... |
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| Graeme McDowell Graeme McDowell Graeme McDowell MBE is a Northern Irish professional golfer.McDowell has won seven events on the European Tour, including the 2010 U.S. Open which was also his first win on the PGA Tour... |
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| Jeff Overton Jeff Overton Jeffrey Laurence Overton is an American professional golfer.Overton was born in Evansville, Indiana. He attended Indiana University, graduating in 2005 with a degree in Sports Marketing and Management.... |
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| Ryan Palmer Ryan Palmer (golfer) Ryan Hunter Palmer is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Palmer was born in Amarillo, Texas. He played college golf at the University of North Texas and then at Texas A&M University... |
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| Kyle Stanley Kyle Stanley Kyle Stanley is an American professional golfer.-Amateur career:Stanley was born in Gig Harbor, Washington. He was a 2002 graduate of St. Charles Borromeo elementary and middle school and a 2006 graduate of Bellarmine Preparatory School... |
Second round
In the morning's play, overnight co-leader Tom LewisTom Lewis
Tom Lewis may refer to:*Tom Lewis , former Premier of New South Wales*Tom Lewis , Scottish chef*Tom Lewis , Australia*Tom Lewis , British obstetrician...
shot a +4 (74) to fade back into the chasing pack. The clubhouse lead was taken by Lucas Glover
Lucas Glover
Lucas Hendley Glover is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the 2009 U.S. Open.-Amateur career:...
, who started the day one stroke back and posted a steady level-par 70 to stay at −4. He was soon matched by veteran Darren Clarke
Darren Clarke
Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the...
who reached the mark with a rare closing birdie. As the wind picked up in the afternoon, first round co-leader Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team...
struggled to an up-and-down 72 to finish at −3. At various times, Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Miguel Angel Jiménez
Miguel Ángel Jiménez Rodríguez is a Spanish professional golfer. He has won 18 times on the European Tour.-Early years:...
and Simon Dyson
Simon Dyson
Simon Dyson is an English professional golfer who is currently a member of the European Tour, having formerly played on the Asian Tour.-Amateur career:...
took the lead, but struggled on their back nines; Jiménez finished at −3 and Dyson at E. Joining Bjørn and Jiménez one shot back were Chad Campbell
Chad Campbell
David Chad Campbell is an American professional golfer.-Early years and amateur career:Campbell was born in Andrews, Texas and grew up in west Texas. He was a member of a strong junior college men's golf squad during the years he played at Midland College...
and Martin Kaymer
Martin Kaymer
Martin Kaymer is a German professional golfer. He became the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings on 27 February 2011 after his runner-up finish in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship....
.
Tom Watson
Tom Watson (golfer)
Thomas Sturges Watson is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and now mostly on the Champions Tour....
, playing with Tom Lewis
Tom Lewis
Tom Lewis may refer to:*Tom Lewis , former Premier of New South Wales*Tom Lewis , Scottish chef*Tom Lewis , Australia*Tom Lewis , British obstetrician...
, earned the second ace of the tournament, by holing out on the 6th hole for a hole in one. The 61-year-old Watson finished with a 70 to comfortably make the cut; he became the oldest ever player to make an Open cut. Pre-tournament favourite Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer from Holywood in County Down. He has represented Europe, Great Britain & Ireland, and Ireland as both an amateur and a professional. He had a successful amateur career, topping the World Amateur Golf Ranking for one week as a 17-year-old in 2007...
played better on Friday shooting a −1 (69) to finish at even par, earning himself a third straight round alongside Rickie Fowler
Rickie Fowler
Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008.-Amateur career:...
.
Notables who missed the cut included World No. 1 Luke Donald
Luke Donald
Luke Campbell Donald is an English professional golfer who is the current World Number One. He plays mainly on the U.S. based PGA Tour but is also a member of the European Tour. In 2006 he reached the top ten in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time in his career. In January 2007, he...
, World No.2 Lee Westwood
Lee Westwood
Lee John Westwood OBE is an English professional golfer. Noted for his consistency, Westwood is one of the few golfers who has won tournaments on every major continent, including victories on the European Tour and the PGA Tour. He was named player of the year for the 1998, 2000, and 2009 seasons...
, Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell MBE is a Northern Irish professional golfer.McDowell has won seven events on the European Tour, including the 2010 U.S. Open which was also his first win on the PGA Tour...
, Matt Kuchar
Matt Kuchar
Matthew Gregory Kuchar is an American professional golfer who has played on both the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He has ranked as high as number six in the Official World Golf Rankings.-Early career:...
, Nick Watney
Nick Watney
Nicholas Alan Watney is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. The highlight of Watney's career to date is his victory at the 2011 WGC-Cadillac Championship....
, and Pádraig Harrington
Padraig Harrington
Pádraig P. Harrington is an Irish professional golfer who plays on The European Tour and The PGA Tour. He has won three major championships: The Open Championship in 2007 and 2008 and the PGA Championship, also in 2008.-Background:...
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| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
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| T1 | Darren Clarke Darren Clarke Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the... |
68–68=136 | -4 | |
| Lucas Glover Lucas Glover Lucas Hendley Glover is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the 2009 U.S. Open.-Amateur career:... |
66–70=136 | |||
| T3 | Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team... |
65–72=137 | -3 | |
| Chad Campbell Chad Campbell David Chad Campbell is an American professional golfer.-Early years and amateur career:Campbell was born in Andrews, Texas and grew up in west Texas. He was a member of a strong junior college men's golf squad during the years he played at Midland College... |
69–68=137 | |||
| Miguel Ángel Jiménez Miguel Angel Jiménez Miguel Ángel Jiménez Rodríguez is a Spanish professional golfer. He has won 18 times on the European Tour.-Early years:... |
66–71=137 | |||
| Martin Kaymer Martin Kaymer Martin Kaymer is a German professional golfer. He became the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings on 27 February 2011 after his runner-up finish in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.... |
68–69=137 | |||
| T7 | George Coetzee George Coetzee George William Coetzee is a South African professional golfer.Coetzee was born in Pretoria. He started playing golf when he was 10 and won the first junior tournament he ever played in, shooting 49 in 9 holes. He finished 4th and 8th in the Callaway Junior World Championship in San Diego, where he... |
69–69=138 | -2 | |
| Anders Hansen Anders Hansen Anders Rosenberg Hansen is a Danish professional golfer.Hansen was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. He turned professional in 1995... |
69–69=138 | |||
| Dustin Johnson Dustin Johnson Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour having been third in the driving distance stats for three consecutive years between 2009-2011.... |
70–68=138 | |||
| Pablo Larrazábal Pablo Larrazabal Pablo Larrazábal is a Spanish professional golfer currently playing on the European Tour.Larrazábal was born in Barcelona, Spain. He attended high school in the United States and returned to Spain in 2002 with the intention of turning professional but his father made him work on the family fish... |
68–70=138 | |||
| Tom Lehman Tom Lehman Thomas Edward Lehman is an American professional golfer.Lehman was born in Austin, Minnesota, but Alexandria, Minnesota is credited as his official Minnesota hometown. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a degree in Business/Accounting and turned professional in 1982. It took... |
71–67=138 | |||
| Davis Love III Davis Love III Davis Milton Love III is an American professional golfer.Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He earned his PGA Tour card in the fall of 1985, on his first attempt. He quickly established himself on the PGA... |
70–68=138 | |||
| Charl Schwartzel Charl Schwartzel Charl Adriaan Schwartzel is a South African professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, European Tour, and the Sunshine Tour. He won the 2011 Masters Tournament. Schwartzel's highest world ranking has been number seven, in May 2011.... |
71–67=138 |
Amateurs: Lewis
Tom Lewis (golfer)
Tom Lewis is a professional golfer from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England.In 2009, Lewis won the Boys Amateur Championship at Royal St George's. In 2010, he lost to Peter O'Malley in a playoff for the New South Wales Open, and then tied for 12th place at the Australian Open...
(−1), Uihlein
Peter Uihlein
Peter Uihlein is an American amateur golfer. He was a member of the victorious U.S. team at the 2009 Walker Cup, where he compiled a 4-0 match record. A junior at Oklahoma State University, Uihlein won the 2010 U.S...
(+2), Macpherson
Bryden Macpherson
Bryden Macpherson is an Australian amateur golfer known for winning The Amateur Championship in 2011.Macpherson was born in Melbourne, Australia. He won the Dunes Medal in 2008, an amateur event in Australia, and set two course records in the process, shooting a 64 and then bettering it with a 63...
(+4), Bjerregaard (+8), Hinton (+29).
Third round
In wet and windy difficult morning conditions, some of the best play came from Tom WatsonTom Watson (golfer)
Thomas Sturges Watson is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and now mostly on the Champions Tour....
, using his 35 years of Open experience to survive the worst of the weather and move up the field with a +2 (72). Rickie Fowler
Rickie Fowler
Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008.-Amateur career:...
shot a fine −2 (68), still battling much of the worst of the weather, to move into contention at −2. Co-leader Darren Clarke
Darren Clarke
Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the...
, in the final pairing, shot a −1 (69) to take the 54 hole lead at −5 over Dustin Johnson
Dustin Johnson
Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour having been third in the driving distance stats for three consecutive years between 2009-2011....
, who moved at −4. Johnson would find himself in the final Sunday pairing for the third time in six majors, after the U.S Open and PGA Championship
2010 PGA Championship
The 2010 PGA Championship was the 92nd PGA Championship. Martin Kaymer from Germany won for his first major championship, in a three-hole playoff over Bubba Watson. The tournament began on Thursday, August 12, 2010, and concluded on Sunday, August 15. It was played at the Straits Course of the...
. Clarke's fellow second-round leader, Lucas Glover
Lucas Glover
Lucas Hendley Glover is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the 2009 U.S. Open.-Amateur career:...
, shot a +3 (74) to fall back to −1. Four-time major winner Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson
Philip Alfred Mickelson is an American professional golfer. He has won four major championships and a total of 39 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. He is nicknamed "Lefty" for his left-handed swing, even though he is otherwise right-handed...
shot a +1 (71) to move back to E, while Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team...
, repeating his strong showing at the 2003 Open
2003 Open Championship
The 2003 Open Championship was the 132nd Open Championship held from 17-20 July at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England. Ben Curtis won his first major by one stroke over Thomas Bjørn and Vijay Singh...
on this course, shot a +1 (71) and was at −2.
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darren Clarke Darren Clarke Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the... |
68–68–69=205 | -5 | |
| 2 | Dustin Johnson Dustin Johnson Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour having been third in the driving distance stats for three consecutive years between 2009-2011.... |
70–68–68=206 | -4 | |
| T3 | Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team... |
65–72–71=208 | -2 | |
| Rickie Fowler Rickie Fowler Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008.-Amateur career:... |
70–70–68=208 | |||
| T5 | Lucas Glover Lucas Glover Lucas Hendley Glover is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the 2009 U.S. Open.-Amateur career:... |
66–70–73=209 | -1 | |
| Miguel Ángel Jiménez Miguel Angel Jiménez Miguel Ángel Jiménez Rodríguez is a Spanish professional golfer. He has won 18 times on the European Tour.-Early years:... |
66–71–72=209 | |||
| T7 | George Coetzee George Coetzee George William Coetzee is a South African professional golfer.Coetzee was born in Pretoria. He started playing golf when he was 10 and won the first junior tournament he ever played in, shooting 49 in 9 holes. He finished 4th and 8th in the Callaway Junior World Championship in San Diego, where he... |
69–69–72=210 | E | |
| Anders Hansen Anders Hansen Anders Rosenberg Hansen is a Danish professional golfer.Hansen was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. He turned professional in 1995... |
69–69–72=210 | |||
| Martin Kaymer Martin Kaymer Martin Kaymer is a German professional golfer. He became the No. 1 ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings on 27 February 2011 after his runner-up finish in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.... |
68–69–73=210 | |||
| Anthony Kim Anthony Kim Anthony Ha-Jin Kim is an American professional golfer.-Amateur career:A Korean American, Kim was born in Los Angeles, California and resides in Dallas, Texas. He attended La Quinta High School in La Quinta, California. After high school, he attended the University of Oklahoma for three years; this... |
72–68–70=210 | |||
| Davis Love III Davis Love III Davis Milton Love III is an American professional golfer.Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He earned his PGA Tour card in the fall of 1985, on his first attempt. He quickly established himself on the PGA... |
70–68–72=210 | |||
| Phil Mickelson Phil Mickelson Philip Alfred Mickelson is an American professional golfer. He has won four major championships and a total of 39 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. He is nicknamed "Lefty" for his left-handed swing, even though he is otherwise right-handed... |
70–69–71=210 |
Final round
42-year-old Darren ClarkeDarren Clarke
Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the...
won his first major championship, in his 20th Open, shooting a final round 70 to win by three shots. Fellow 40-something Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson
Philip Alfred Mickelson is an American professional golfer. He has won four major championships and a total of 39 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. He is nicknamed "Lefty" for his left-handed swing, even though he is otherwise right-handed...
charged to a front nine 30, a tie for his lowest nine hole stretch in a major. Mickelson made eagle on the 7th hole to tie for the lead and added a birdie on the 10th to move to 6 under for the day; but Clarke, three groups behind, countered with his own eagle on the 7th to open up a two shot lead. A short missed par putt stalled Mickelson's momentum, and he faded on the back nine with three further bogeys to finish −2, in a tie for second. Dustin Johnson
Dustin Johnson
Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour having been third in the driving distance stats for three consecutive years between 2009-2011....
, playing with Clarke, also made a strong challenge, and was two shots out of the lead, at −5, headed to the par-5 14th hole. Johnson tried to reach the green with an 2 iron from the fairway, but pushed it right and out of bounds to end any chances of a comeback; he would take double-bogey seven to fall four back. This gave Clarke a four-stroke cushion over his nearest rivals with four holes to play, and he cruised to victory even despite bogeys on his final two holes. He became the third Northern Irish
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
champion in the past six majors, as well as the oldest debut major-winner, and oldest Open Champion, since Roberto De Vicenzo in 1967
1967 Open Championship
The 1967 Open Championship was a golf competition held at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake. The competition was won by Roberto De Vicenzo, with Nicklaus 2nd and Player tied for 3rd with Clive Clark.-First round:-Second round:...
. Earlier in the day, Sergio García
Sergio García
Sergio García Fernández is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on both the United States PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings...
, playing his 49th consecutive major, had threatened to go low after being −4 for his round late on his front nine, but he faded to a −2 (68), and T9. This still matched the low round of the day alongside Mickelson. Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn
Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team...
, eight years on from his Open drama, produced another steady round to finish alone in fourth. Tom Watson
Tom Watson (golfer)
Thomas Sturges Watson is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and now mostly on the Champions Tour....
, fresh from becoming the oldest player to complete all four days at an Open, fired his third 72 of the week and finished in a tie for 22nd. Simon Dyson
Simon Dyson
Simon Dyson is an English professional golfer who is currently a member of the European Tour, having formerly played on the Asian Tour.-Amateur career:...
tied for 9th to take low Englishman honours.
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Winnings (£ Pound sterling The pound sterling , commonly called the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence... ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darren Clarke Darren Clarke Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 22 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the... |
68–68–69–70=275 | -5 | 900,000 | |
| T2 | Dustin Johnson Dustin Johnson Dustin Hunter Johnson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is one of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour having been third in the driving distance stats for three consecutive years between 2009-2011.... |
70–68–68–72=278 | -2 | 427,447 | |
| Phil Mickelson Phil Mickelson Philip Alfred Mickelson is an American professional golfer. He has won four major championships and a total of 39 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. He is nicknamed "Lefty" for his left-handed swing, even though he is otherwise right-handed... |
70–69–71–68=278 | ||||
| 4 | Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won thirteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1999 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team... |
65–72–71–71=279 | -1 | 260,000 | |
| T5 | Chad Campbell Chad Campbell David Chad Campbell is an American professional golfer.-Early years and amateur career:Campbell was born in Andrews, Texas and grew up in west Texas. He was a member of a strong junior college men's golf squad during the years he played at Midland College... |
69–68–74–69=280 | E | 181,666 | |
| Rickie Fowler Rickie Fowler Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008.-Amateur career:... |
70–70–68–72=280 | ||||
| Anthony Kim Anthony Kim Anthony Ha-Jin Kim is an American professional golfer.-Amateur career:A Korean American, Kim was born in Los Angeles, California and resides in Dallas, Texas. He attended La Quinta High School in La Quinta, California. After high school, he attended the University of Oklahoma for three years; this... |
72–68–70–70=280 | ||||
| 8 | Raphaël Jacquelin Raphaël Jacquelin Raphaël Jacquelin is a French professional golfer.Jacquelin was born in Lyon. He turned professional in 1995, after winning the French Amateur Championship.Jacquelin began his professional career on the Challenge Tour... |
74–67–71–69=281 | +1 | 134,502 | |
| T9 | Simon Dyson Simon Dyson Simon Dyson is an English professional golfer who is currently a member of the European Tour, having formerly played on the Asian Tour.-Amateur career:... |
68–72–72–70=282 | +2 | 104,333 | |
| Sergio García Sergio García Sergio García Fernández is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on both the United States PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings... |
70–70–74–68=282 | ||||
| Davis Love III Davis Love III Davis Milton Love III is an American professional golfer.Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He earned his PGA Tour card in the fall of 1985, on his first attempt. He quickly established himself on the PGA... |
70–68–72–72=282 |
Amateurs: Lewis
Tom Lewis (golfer)
Tom Lewis is a professional golfer from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England.In 2009, Lewis won the Boys Amateur Championship at Royal St George's. In 2010, he lost to Peter O'Malley in a playoff for the New South Wales Open, and then tied for 12th place at the Australian Open...
(+9), Uihlein
Peter Uihlein
Peter Uihlein is an American amateur golfer. He was a member of the victorious U.S. team at the 2009 Walker Cup, where he compiled a 4-0 match record. A junior at Oklahoma State University, Uihlein won the 2010 U.S...
(+12).