1988 Open Championship

Golf tournament
1988 Open Championship
Front cover of the 1988 Open Annual
Tournament information
Dates14–18 July 1988
LocationLytham St Annes, England
Course(s)Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Tour(s)European Tour
PGA Tour
Statistics
Par71[1]
Length6,857 yards (6,270 m)[1]
Field153 players, 71 after cut[1]
Cut148 (+6)[1]
Prize fund£500,000
$750,000
Winner's share£80,000
$136,000
Champion
Spain Seve Ballesteros
273 (−11)
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The 1988 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 117th Open Championship, held from 14 to 18 July at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England. In a first-ever Monday finish, Seve Ballesteros shot a final round 65 to capture his third Open Championship and fifth major title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Nick Price, the 54-hole leader.[2]

Scheduled to finish on Sunday, heavy rain on Saturday caused flooding of several greens and the third round was scratched after play was started. Under European Tour rules, if less than half of the players had finished their rounds, the scores for that day were discarded. Since no player had finished, all the scores from Saturday were scrapped. Sunday was briefly scheduled for 36 holes, but due to the flooding, it was decided the course could not be readied in time for the early morning tee times. The third round was played on Sunday and the fourth on Monday, the first time in history the Open's final round finished on a Monday.[3][4][5]

Course layout

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Yards 206 437 457 393 212 490 549 394 164 3,302 334 542 198 342 445 463 357 462 412 3,555 6,857
Par 3 4 4 4 3 5 5 4 3 35 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 36 71

Source:[6]

Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):[1]

  • 1979: 6,822 yards (6,238 m)
  • 1974: 6,822 yards (6,238 m)
  • 1969: 6,848 yards (6,262 m)
  • 1963: 6,836 yards (6,251 m)
  • 1958: 6,635 yards (6,067 m)
  • 1952: 6,657 yards (6,087 m)

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 14 July 1988

Place Player Score To par
1 Spain Seve Ballesteros 67 −4
T2 United States Brad Faxon 69 −2
Australia Wayne Grady
T4 United States Don Pooley 70 −1
Zimbabwe Nick Price
Australia Noel Ratcliffe
Australia Peter Senior
T8 United States Andy Bean 71 E
New Zealand Bob Charles
England Howard Clark
England Nick Faldo
South Africa David Frost
United States Jay Haas
England Mark James
United States Gary Koch
England David J. Russell
England Andrew Sherborne
United States Bob Tway

Second round

Friday, 15 July 1988

Place Player Score To par
1 Zimbabwe Nick Price 70-67=137 −5
2 Spain Seve Ballesteros 67-71=138 −4
T3 England Nick Faldo 71-69=140 −2
United States Craig Stadler 72-68=140
5 United States Andy Bean 71-70=141 −1
T6 United States Fred Couples 73-69=142 E
Scotland Sandy Lyle 73-69=142
United States Bob Tway 71-71=142
T9 Japan Isao Aoki 72-71=143 +1
United States Chip Beck 72-71=143
England Howard Clark 71-72=143
United States Brad Faxon 69=74=143
United States Gary Koch 71-72=143
United States Don Pooley 70-73=143
Australia Wayne Riley 72-71=143
Argentina Eduardo Romero 72-71=143
Australia Peter Senior 70-73=143
England Andrew Sherborne 71-72=143

Amateurs: Broadhurst (+4), Cook (+11), Foster (+11), Härdin (+12), Nash (+12), Rymer (+18), Prosser (+21).

Third round

Sunday, 17 July 1988

Place Player Score To par
1 Zimbabwe Nick Price 70-67-69=206 −7
T2 Spain Seve Ballesteros 67-71-70=208 −5
England Nick Faldo 71-69-68=208
4 Scotland Sandy Lyle 73-69-67=209 −4
T5 United States Andy Bean 71-70-71=212 −1
United States Larry Nelson 73-71-68=212
United States Don Pooley 70-73-69=212
Argentina Eduardo Romero 72-71-69=212
T9 United States Fred Couples 73-69-71=213 E
United States Brad Faxon 69-74-70=213
United States Gary Koch 71-72-70=213
Australia Peter Senior 70-73-70=213

Final round

Monday, 18 July 1988

Champion
Silver Medal winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
Top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (£)
1 Spain Seve Ballesteros (c) 67-71-70-65=273 −11 80,000
2 Zimbabwe Nick Price 70-67-69-69=275 −9 60,000
3 England Nick Faldo (c) 71-69-68-71=279 −5 47,000
T4 United States Fred Couples 73-69-71-68=281 −3 33,500
United States Gary Koch 71-72-70-68=281
6 Australia Peter Senior 70-73-70-69=282 −2 27,000
T7 Japan Isao Aoki 72-71-73-67=283 −1 21,000
South Africa David Frost 71-75-69-68=283
Scotland Sandy Lyle (c) 73-69-67-74=283
United States Payne Stewart 73-75-68-67=283
Leaderboard below the top 10
Place Player Score To par Money (£)
T11 United States Brad Faxon 69-74-70-71=284 E 16,500
England David J. Russell 71-74-69-70=284
T13 United States Larry Nelson 73-71-68-74=285 +1 14,000
Argentina Eduardo Romero 72-71-69-74=285
United States Curtis Strange 79-69-69-68=285
T16 United States Andy Bean 71-70-71-74=286 +2 10,500
United States Ben Crenshaw 73-73-68-72=286
United States Don Pooley 70-73-69-74=286
Spain José Rivero 75-69-70-73=286
T20 Scotland Gordon Brand Jnr 72-76-68-71=287 +3 7,000
New Zealand Bob Charles (c) 71-74-69-73=287
Australia Rodger Davis 76-71-72-68=287
United States Tom Kite 75-71-73-68=287
United States Bob Tway 71-71-72-73=287
T25 United States Jack Nicklaus (c) 75-70-75-68=288 +4 5,500
Wales Ian Woosnam 76-71-72-69=288
27 United States Mark O'Meara 75-69-75-70=289 +5 5,200
T28 United States Tommy Armour III 73-72-72-73=290 +6 4,600
United States Chip Beck 72-71-74-73=290
United States Jim Benepe 75-72-70-73=290
England Howard Clark 71-72-75-72=290
Zimbabwe Mark McNulty 73-73-72-72=290
United States Tom Watson (c) 74-72-72-72=290
T34 Australia Wayne Riley 72-71-72-76=291 +7 4,150
United States Lanny Wadkins 73-71-71-76=291
T36 England Gordon J. Brand 73-74-72-72=292 +8 3,950
Spain José María Olazábal 73-71-73-75=292
T38 Scotland Ken Brown 75-72-75-71=293 +9 3,456
Australia Wayne Grady 69-76-72-76=293
United States Jay Haas 71-76-78-68=293
Scotland Brian Marchbank 73-74-73-73=293
Australia Graham Marsh 75-73-71-74=293
United States Corey Pavin 74-73-71-75=293
Northern Ireland Ronan Rafferty 74-74-71-74=293
Australia Noel Ratcliffe 70-77-76-70=293
England David A. Russell 72-73-72-76=293
T47 United States Paul Azinger 72-75-73-74=294 +10 3,050
England Paul Kent 74-70-79-71=294
United States Mark McCumber 75-71-72-76=294
United States Andy North 77-68-74-75=294
Scotland Sam Torrance 74-74-75-71=294
T52 Australia Peter Fowler 72-72-78-73=295 +11 2,800
United States Hubert Green 74-73-73-75=295
United States Johnny Miller 75-73-72-75=295
Republic of Ireland Philip Walton 72-74-75-74=295
United States Fuzzy Zoeller 72-74-76-73=295
T57 England Paul Broadhurst (a) 73-73-74-76=296 +12 0
England Carl Mason 75-69-77-75=296 2,625
United States Mike Smith 75-71-76-74=296
T60 South Africa Gary Player (c) 72-76-73-76=297 +13 2,525
United States Craig Stadler 72-68-81-76=297
T62 England Simon Bishop 77-71-73-77=298 +14 2,400
England Mark James 71-77-74-76=298
England Andrew Sherborne 71-72-76-77=298
65 Spain Manuel Piñero 75-73-77-74=299 +15 2,300
66 England Paul Carman 77-71-80-73=301 +17 2,250
T67 United States Greg Bruckner 72-74-80-76=302 +18 2,175
Chinese Taipei Hsieh Chin-sheng 74-73-73-82=302
69 West Germany Bernhard Langer 73-75-75-80=303 +19 2,100
70 England Gary Stafford 76-72-78-79=305 +21 2,050
71 England Peter Mitchell 73-75-79-81=308 +24 2,000
CUT Australia Ian Baker-Finch 76-73=149 +7 0
United States David Ishii 78-71=149
Japan Hajime Meshiai 75-74=149
United States Larry Mize 72-77=149
United States Lee Trevino (c) 75-74=149
Italy Alberto Binaghi 74-76=150 +8
South Africa John Bland 76-74=150
England Andrew Chandler 75-75=150
England Joe Higgins 74-76=150
Sweden Mats Lanner 75-75=150
United States Andrew Magee 72-78=150
Republic of Ireland Christy O'Connor Jnr 75-75=150
Australia Craig Parry 75-75=150
United States Scott Verplank 72-78=150
England Roger Chapman 73-78=151 +9
England Derrick Cooper 74-77=151
United States Jamie Howell 77-74=151
Zimbabwe Tony Johnstone 76-75=151
United States Davis Love III 80-71=151
United States Mike Reid 78-73=151
England Mark Roe 76-75=151
Australia Gerry Taylor 76-75=151
Scotland Russell Weir 77-74=151
Sweden Magnus Persson Atlevi 79-73=152 +10
Republic of Ireland Eamonn Darcy 78-74=152
England Robert Lee 75-77=152
Sweden Johan Ryström 74-78=152
Sweden Ove Sellberg 79-73=152
United States Richard Thompson 77-75=152
Australia Lucien Tinkler 77-75=152
England Clive Tucker 78-74=152
South Africa Teddy Webber 79-73=152
South Africa Hugh Baiocchi 79-74=153 +11
England Peter Baker 76-77=153
United States Ron Commans 73-80=153
England James Cook (a) 77-76=153
England Denis Durnian 76-77=153
United States Raymond Floyd 76-77=153
England Trevor Fostor (a) 74-79=153
Australia Peter McWhinney 76-77=153
England David Williams 77-76=153
Australia David Armstrong 80-74=154 +12
England David Gilford 78-76=154
Sweden Cristian Härdin (a) 77-77=154
England John Morgan 78-76=154
England Tony Nash (a) 75-79=154
United States Hal Sutton 76-78=154
Spain José María Cañizares 77-78=155 +13
Republic of Ireland David Jones 78-77=155
England Gordon Townhall 78-77=155
Nepal Markus Agren 79-77=156 +14
South Africa Peter Akakasiaka 77-79=156
England Neil Burke 80-76=156
Australia Mike Harwood 79-77=156
Sweden Leif Hederström 79-77=156
Scotland Lindsay Mann 81-75=156
United States David Thore 78-78=156
Scotland James White 77-79=156
Sweden Anders Forsbrand 79-78=157 +15
England Ged Furey 80-77=157
Chinese Taipei Lu Chien-soon 78-79=157
England Andy Rogers 82-75=157
United States Michael Allen 83-75=158 +16
England Chris Moody 81-77=158
United States Steve Pate 80-78=158
Denmark Steen Tinning 76-82=158
England Tony Jacklin (c) 80-79=159 +17
Spain José Cabo 79-81=160 +18
United States Mark Calcavecchia 76-84=160
England Andrew Cotton 77-83=160
Australia David Graham 79-81=160
Australia Roger Mackay 80-80=160
Wales Mark Mouland 76-84=160
United States Charles Rymer (a) 83-77=160
Scotland Sandy Stephen 82-78=160
Scotland Andy McCloskey 83-78=161 +19
England David Whelan 81-80=161
England Neil Hansen 80-82=162 +20
England Barry Lane 78-85=163 +21
England Darren Prosser (a) 81-82=163
South Africa Robert Richardson 82-81=163
WD Australia Wayne Smith 81 +10

Source:[7]

Scorecard

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 3 4 4 4 3 5 5 4 3 4 5 3 4 4 4 4 4 4
Spain Ballesteros −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −6 −8 −9 −9 −10 −11 −10 −11 −10 −10 −11 −11 −11
Zimbabwe Price −7 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −10 −11 −10 −10 −10 −10 −9
England Faldo −5 −4 −5 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −6 −5 −5 −6 −6 −6 −5 −5 −5 −5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle Birdie Bogey Double bogey Triple bogey+

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. pp. 44, 203. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  2. ^ Diaz, Jaime (25 July 1988). "Mano a mano on the links". Sports Illustrated.
  3. ^ Bonk, Thomas (17 July 1988). "Rain washes out play at third round of British Open". Eugene Register-Guard. (Los Angeles Times). p. 1F.
  4. ^ "British Open rain burns Green". Toledo Blade. Associated Press. 17 July 1988. p. D1.
  5. ^ Pye, Steven (16 July 2015). "How Seve Ballesteros won his last major championship at the Open in 1988". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  6. ^ Platts, Mitchell (11 July 2011). "Focus on the 130th Open Championship". European Tour. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  7. ^ Davies, David (19 July 1988). "Ballesteros creates a masterpiece". The Guardian. p. 14 – via newspapers.com.

External links

  • Royal Lytham & St Annes 1988 (Official site)
  • 117th Open Championship - Royal Lytham & St Annes (European Tour)
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