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Thursday, 15 July 2010. For the 28th time, the Open Championship took to the Old Course at St Andrews, and it played perhaps the easiest it has in all its history, with 73 players under par. Rory McIlroy tied a major championship record with 63 (−9), only the eighth 63 in Open Championship history, and the 22nd in major championship history. [13]
Harry Vardon, six-time Open Champion in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, and 1914, which is a record. The Open Championship is an annual golf competition held in the United Kingdom that was established in 1860. [1] It is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July, and is the last of the four major championships to be played each year. [2]
The Open is recognised as one of the four major championships in golf, and is an official event on the PGA Tour, European Tour, and the Japan Golf Tour. The Open began in 1860, and for many years it was not the most-followed event in golf, as challenge matches between top golfers were more keenly followed and drew larger crowds. [85]
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the British Open Golf Tournament and learn more about one of the four Grand Slam golf championships.
Senior British Open: Senior major: Bernhard Langer: 29-1 Aug: Women's British Open: LPGA and Ladies European Tour major: Yani Tseng: 29 Jul-1 Aug: U.S. Senior Open: Senior major: Bernhard Langer: 5-8 Aug: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational: World Golf Championships: Hunter Mahan: 9-15 Aug: U.S. Women's Amateur: Amateur women's individual tournament ...
Harry Vardon, Muirfield (1896): No man won more British Opens than Vardon’s six, and each of those six was a masterpiece of resilience and craft. In 1896, his first and most memorable, Vardon ...
It was an annual off-season golf tournament contested by the year's winners of the four major championships of regular men's golf, which are the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship (British Open), and the PGA Championship. The event was match play in 1998 and 1999. It was stroke play in all other years. Woods won in seven ...
It was the first Senior Open Championship played at the course and the eighth Senior Open Championship played as a senior major championship. World Golf Hall of Fame member Bernhard Langer won by one stroke over 1995 U.S. Open champion Corey Pavin. The 2010 event was Langer's first senior major championship victory.