1973 Open Championship

Golf tournament

1973 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates	11–14 July 1973
Location	Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland
Course(s)	Troon Golf Club, Old Course
Tour(s)	European Tour PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72^[1]
Length	7,064 yards (6,459 m)^[1]^[2]^[3]
Field	153 players 84 after 1st cut 60 after 2nd cut^[1]
Cut	152 (+8) (1st cut) 224 (+8) (2nd cut)^[1]
Prize fund	£50,000 $130,000
Winner's share	£5,500 $14,300
Champion
Tom Weiskopf
276 (−12)
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Troon Golf Club

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Location in Scotland

Troon Golf Club

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Location in South Ayrshire, Scotland

The 1973 Open Championship was the 102nd Open Championship, played 11–14 July at Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Tom Weiskopf won his only major championship by three strokes over runners-up Neil Coles and Johnny Miller, the winner of the U.S. Open a month earlier. Weiskopf was a wire-to-wire winner and his four-round total of 12-under-par 276 matched the then-existing Open Championship record set by Arnold Palmer on the same course in 1962.^[4]

Gene Sarazen, 71, made a hole-in-one in the first round at the famous 8th hole, a 126-yard (115 m) par-3 named the "Postage Stamp," due to its small green.^[5]^[6]^[7] Lee Trevino's bid for a third straight Open fell short, thirteen strokes back in a tie for tenth place.^[8]

This was the course's last Open Championship under the name Troon Golf Club; it became Royal Troon Golf Club five years later in 1978,^[9] and next hosted in 1982.

Course

Old Course

Hole	Name	Yards	Par	Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Seal	362	4	10	Sandhills	437	4
2	Black Rock	391	4	11	The Railway	481	5
3	Gyaws	381	4	12	The Fox	432	4
4	Dunure	556	5	13	Burmah	468	4
5	Greenan	210	3	14	Alton	180	3
6	Turnberry	577	5	15	Crosbie	457	4
7	Tel-el-Kebir	389	4	16	Well	542	5
8	Postage Stamp	126	3	17	Rabbit	223	3
9	The Monk	427	4	18	Craigend	425	4
Out		3,419	36	In		3,645	36
Source:^[1]^[2]^[3]				Total		7,064	72

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):^[10]

1962: 7,045 yards (6,442 m), par 72
1950: 6,583 yards (6,019 m), par 70

Opens from 1962 through 1989 played the 11th hole as a par-5.

Round summaries

First round

Wednesday, 11 July 1973

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tom Weiskopf	68	−4
T2	Jack Nicklaus	69	−3
T2	Bert Yancey	69	−3
4	Johnny Miller	70	−2
T5	Peter Butler	71	−1
	Neil Coles
	Bruce Crampton
	Lanny Wadkins
	Peter Wilcock
T10	Vin Baker	72	E
	Roberto De Vicenzo
	Bruce Devlin
	Arnold Palmer
	Chi-Chi Rodríguez
	David J. Russell (a)

Second round

Thursday, 12 July 1973

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tom Weiskopf	68-67=135	−9
T2	Johnny Miller	70-68=138	−6
T2	Bert Yancey	69-69=138	−6
4	Jack Nicklaus	69-70=139	−5
5	Christy O'Connor Snr	73-68=141	−3
6	Bernard Gallacher	73-69=142	−2
T7	Brian Barnes	76-67=143	−1
	Peter Butler	71-72=143
	Neil Coles	71-72=143
T10	Bob Charles	73-71=144	E
T10	Lanny Wadkins	71-73=144	E

Amateurs: Edwards (+6), Homer (+7), Russell (+7), R. Foster (+8),
Stuart (+9), Milne (+10), Hedges (+13), Bonallack (+15), Sym (+15), Burch (+16), Eyles (+18), James (+24)

Third round

Friday, 13 July 1973

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tom Weiskopf	68-67-71=206	−10
2	Johnny Miller	70-68-69=207	−9
3	Bert Yancey	69-69-73=211	−5
T4	Brian Barnes	76-67-70=213	−3
T4	Neil Coles	71-72-70=213	−3
6	Lanny Wadkins	71-73-70=214	−2
T7	Jack Nicklaus	69-70-76=215	−1
T7	Christy O'Connor Snr	73-68-74=215	−1
9	Doug McClelland	76-71-69=216	E
T10	Peter Butler	71-72-74=217	+1
	Bob Charles	73-71-73=217
	Bernard Gallacher	73-69-75=217

Amateurs: Edwards (+5), R. Foster (+10), Russell (+12), Homer (+16)

Final round

Saturday, 14 July 1973

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	Tom Weiskopf	68-67-71-70=276	−12	5,500
T2	Neil Coles	71-72-70-66=279	−9	3,625
T2	Johnny Miller	70-68-69-72=279	−9	3,625
4	Jack Nicklaus	69-70-76-65=280	−8	2,750
5	Bert Yancey	69-69-73-70=281	−7	2,450
6	Peter Butler	71-72-74-69=286	−2	2,150
T7	Bob Charles	73-71-73-71=288	E	1,717
	Christy O'Connor Snr	73-68-74-73=288
	Lanny Wadkins	71-73-70-74=288
T10	Brian Barnes	76-67-70-76=289	+1	1,350
	Gay Brewer	76-71-72-70=289
	Harold Henning	73-73-73-70=289
	Lee Trevino	75-73-73-68=289

Amateurs: Edwards (+8)
Source:^[4]^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. pp. 63, 203. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Nicklaus favored in Open". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. 11 July 1973. p. 16.
^ ^a ^b "Course card". Glasgow Herald. Scotland. 12 July 1973. p. 4.
^ ^a ^b "Weiskopf arrives with British Open win". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. Associated Press. 15 July 1973. p. 1C.
^ "Postage Stamp, hole #8". Royal Troon Golf Club. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
^ "Gene Sarazen gets ace in British Open golf". The Day. New London, Connecticut. Associated Press. 12 July 1973. p. 28.
^ Archer, Ian (12 July 1973). "Gene Sarazen gives Open Championship a touch of class". Glasgow Herald. Scotland. p. 4.
^ Jenkins, Dan (23 July 1973). "His first hurrah". Sports Illustrated. p. 18.
^ "Now it's Royal Troon". Glasgow Herald. Scotland. 5 June 1978. p. 16.
^ "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. pp. 33, 203. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
^ "1973 Open Championship results". databasegolf.com. Retrieved 9 July 2012.

External links

Royal Troon 1973 (Official site)
102nd Open Championship - Royal Troon (European Tour)

1973 Men's major golf championships

The Masters
U.S. Open
The Open Championship
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