The 144th Open Championship was one of the most competitive in the tournament’s long and prestigious history. in 2015 the world’s very best players came to the home of golf, St Andrews to compete for the Claret Jug. After four…
Luke Donald had been the World No.1 for over a year as he entered The 141st Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 2012, so all eyes were on the Englishman in his pursuit of the Claret Jug. Heavily…
Amid great excitement and almost unbearable tension on the Old Course, The 144th Open featured one of the event’s best-ever finishes in which American Zach Johnson eventually triumphed in a four-hole play-off against 2010 Champion Golfer Louis Oosthuizen and Australia’s…
For the second time in three years, Ernie Els was in a play-off for The Open but this time lost out to Todd Hamilton. In 2004, the 38-year-old American was ranked 56th in the world after winning for the first…
The Open Championship is familiar with playoffs to decide the Championship – but only once has the deciding playoff involved four players. In 2002, Muirfield hosted The 131st Open Championship, and nobody could predict just how incredibly competitive it was…
Carnoustie has often been referred to as ‘Carnastie’ since The 128th Open Championship in 1999. Paul Lawrie was victorious on that occasion in difficult conditions. In 2007, two Europeans went head to head in a Classic Playoff at the famous…
Throughout The Open’s history, Carnoustie has staged some of the most dramatic and era-defining moments in the annals of the tournament. One glorious example of this was The 104th Open in 1975 – when the winner of the Claret Jug…