Tournament information | |
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Dates | 17–20 July 2003 |
Location | Sandwich, England |
Course(s) | Royal St George's Golf Club |
Organized by | The R&A |
Tour(s) | European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 71 |
Length | 7,106 yards (6,498 m)[1] |
Field | 156 players, 75 after cut[1] |
Cut | 150 (+8)[1] |
Prize fund | £3,900,000 €5,631,600 $6,240,000 |
Winner's share | £700,000 €1,010,800 $1,112,720 |
Champion | |
Ben Curtis | |
283 (−1) | |
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The 2003 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 132nd Open Championship, held from 17 to 20 July at Royal St George's Golf ClubinSandwich, England. Ben Curtis won his only major title, one stroke ahead of runners-up Thomas Bjørn and Vijay Singh. Bjørn had led in the final round by two shots with three holes to play, but needed three attempts to play out of a greenside bunker on the 16th hole.[2][3] Playing in his first major championship and number 396 in the world rankings, Curtis became the first debut winner at The Open since Tom Watsonin1975.[4][5][6]
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Yards | 442 | 418 | 210 | 497 | 420 | 172 | 532 | 455 | 388 | 3,534 | 414 | 242 | 381 | 459 | 550 | 475 | 163 | 428 | 460 | 3,572 | 7,106 |
Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 71 |
Source:[7]
Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):[1]
Stuart Appleby (4), Thomas Bjørn (4,5,18), Steve Elkington, Ernie Els (2,3,4,5,10,14), Gary Evans, Sergio García (4,5,14,18), Retief Goosen (4,5,10,14), Søren Hansen (5), Pádraig Harrington (4,5,18), Justin Leonard (2,3,4,14), Thomas Levet, Peter Lonard (4,22), Davis Love III (4,13,18), Shigeki Maruyama (4,14), Peter O'Malley (22), Nick Price (2,3,4,14)
John Daly (3), David Duval (3,18), Paul Lawrie (3,4,5), Tom Lehman (3), Greg Norman (3), Mark O'Meara (3), Tiger Woods (3,4,10,11,12,13,14,18)
Mark Calcavecchia (18), Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson
Robert Allenby (14), Rich Beem (12,14), Ángel Cabrera (5), Michael Campbell (5), Paul Casey, K. J. Choi (14), Darren Clarke (18), Fred Couples, Chris DiMarco (14), Bob Estes, Niclas Fasth (5,18), Brad Faxon, Steve Flesch, Fred Funk (14), Jim Furyk (10,14,18), Jay Haas, Charles Howell III (14), Trevor Immelman (5,24), Jerry Kelly (14), Bernhard Langer (5,18), Len Mattiace (14), Phil Mickelson (14,18), Colin Montgomerie (5,6,18), Craig Parry (22), Kenny Perry, Chris Riley, Eduardo Romero (5), Justin Rose (5), Adam Scott (5), Vijay Singh (11,12,14), Jeff Sluman (14), David Toms (12,14,18), Scott Verplank (18), Mike Weir (11)
Bradley Dredge, Anders Hansen (6), Stephen Leaney, José María Olazábal (11)
Ignacio Garrido, Andrew Oldcorn
Brian Davis, Robert-Jan Derksen, Kenneth Ferrie, Mathias Grönberg, Freddie Jacobson
Alastair Forsyth, Philip Golding, David Howell, Søren Kjeldsen, Mark McNulty, Greg Owen, Ian Poulter
Raphaël Jacquelin, David Lynn, Rolf Muntz, Gary Murphy, Nick O'Hern, Iain Pyman, Mark Roe, Charl Schwartzel
Craig Perks, Hal Sutton (18)
Joe Durant, Jonathan Kaye, Cliff Kresge, J. L. Lewis, Rory Sabbatini, Duffy Waldorf
Tom Byrum, José Cóceres, Ben Curtis, Luke Donald, Dudley Hart, Skip Kendall, Scott McCarron, Chris Smith
Paul Azinger, Stewart Cink, Pierre Fulke, Paul McGinley, Jesper Parnevik, Phillip Price, Lee Westwood
Shingo Katayama, Nobuhito Sato, Toru Taniguchi
Hur Suk-ho, Hirofumi Miyase, Hideto Tanihara, Katsuyoshi Tomori
Ricky Barnes (a)
Thursday, 17 July 2003
Place | Player | Score | To par[8] |
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1 | Hennie Otto | 68 | −3 |
T2 | Davis Love III | 69 | −2 |
Greg Norman | |||
T4 | S.K. Ho | 70 | −1 |
Freddie Jacobson | |||
T6 | Fred Couples | 71 | E |
Gary Evans | |||
Mathias Grönberg | |||
Charles Howell III | |||
Thomas Levet | |||
Scott McCarron | |||
Tom Watson |
Friday, 18 July 2003
Place | Player | Score | To par[9] |
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1 | Davis Love III | 69-72=141 | −1 |
T2 | Thomas Bjørn | 73-70=143 | +1 |
S.K. Ho | 70-73=143 | ||
T4 | Ben Curtis | 72-72=144 | +2 |
Alastair Forsyth | 74-70=144 | ||
Sergio García | 73-71=144 | ||
Thomas Levet | 71-73=144 | ||
Hennie Otto | 68-76=144 | ||
Kenny Perry | 74-70=144 | ||
Marco Ruiz | 73-71=144 |
Amateurs: Barnes (+11), Wolstenholme (+14), Godfrey (+18).
Saturday, 19 July 2003
Mark Roe shot a 67 to finish at one over par, but he and playing partner Jesper Parnevik were disqualified, having failed to exchange scorecards and therefore having signed incorrect scorecards.[10] The rule that resulted in the disqualifications was changed two years later;[11] Roe never played in another major.[12]
Place | Player | Score | To par[13] |
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1 | Thomas Bjørn | 73-70-69=212 | −1 |
2 | Davis Love III | 69-72-72=213 | E |
T3 | Ben Curtis | 72-72-70=214 | +1 |
Sergio García | 73-71-70=214 | ||
Kenny Perry | 74-70-70=214 | ||
Vijay Singh | 75-70-69=214 | ||
Tiger Woods | 73-72-69=214 | ||
T8 | Hur Suk-ho | 70-73-72=215 | +2 |
Phillip Price | 74-72-69=215 | ||
T10 | Gary Evans | 71-75-70=216 | +3 |
Pierre Fulke | 77-72-67=216 | ||
Freddie Jacobson | 70-76-70=216 | ||
Peter Lonard | 73-73-70=216 |
Sunday, 20 July 2003
Ben Curtis shot six-under in the first 11 holes to grab a 2 stroke lead, but dropped four strokes in the next six holes to fall behind, and sank a 10-foot (3 m) par putt on the final hole to post the clubhouse lead. Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods also moved into early contention, but fell behind Curtis with late bogeys, leaving Thomas Bjørn with a three stroke lead with four holes to play. He finished bogey-double bogey-bogey-par and tied for second, one stroke back.
It was not only Curtis' first win, but his first top-10 finish in a PGA Tour event.
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (£) |
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1 | Ben Curtis | 72-72-70-69=283 | −1 | 700,000 |
T2 | Thomas Bjørn | 73-70-69-72=284 | E | 345,000 |
Vijay Singh | 75-70-69-70=284 | |||
T4 | Davis Love III | 69-72-72-72=285 | +1 | 185,000 |
Tiger Woods | 73-72-69-71=285 | |||
T6 | Brian Davis | 77-73-68-68=286 | +2 | 134,500 |
Freddie Jacobson | 70-76-70-70=286 | |||
T8 | Nick Faldo | 76-74-67-70=287 | +3 | 155,383 |
Kenny Perry | 74-70-70-73=287 | |||
T10 | Gary Evans | 71-75-70-72=288 | +4 | 97,750 |
Sergio García | 73-71-70-74=288 | |||
Retief Goosen | 73-75-71-69=288 | |||
Hennie Otto | 68-76-75-69=288 | |||
Phillip Price | 74-72-69-73=288 |
Source:[14]
Final round
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:[15]
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