1875 Open Championship

January 2024 August 2013 1875 Open Championship 10 September 1875 Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland Prestwick Golf Club 18 playershttp://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx The Open Championship Media guide 2011 154 29 May 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120418224641/http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx 18 April 2012 £21 £8 SCO Willie Park Sr. 166 1874 1876 UK Scotland 1 Prestwick 55.502 -4.619 Location in Scotland 240 thumb | right | alt=A circa 1867 photograph of Scottish professional golfer Willie Park.|A circa 1867 photograph of Scottish professional golfer Willie Park (1833-1903). The 1875 Open Championship was the 15th Open Championship, held 10 September at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Willie Park Sr. won the Championship by two strokes from runner-up Bob Martin. Willie Park, who had won the first Championship in 1860, equalled Tom Morris Jr.'s record of four Championship wins. Tom Morris Jr. and his father, Tom Morris Sr., were both absent following the death, six days earlier, of Young Tom Morris's wife during child-birth. Young Tom Morris himself died later the same year. Play started at 11:30 a.m. and just 18 players contested the Championship. All the leading players were in the early pairings. Willie Park, in the first group, and Bob Martin, in the third group, led after the first round with scores of 60. After the second round Bob Martin and Bob Ferguson led in 114 but a number of players were close behind with Willie Park on 115 and Mungo Park on 116. In the final round Willie Park "played a fine game"https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FEREAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rLEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5887%2C619239 The Glasgow Herald 11 September 1875 5 Golf - Annual Competition for the Championship and scored 51, the best round of the day. Bob Martin came second with defending champion Mungo Park third and Bob Ferguson fourth after a 58. Final leaderboard Source:The Majors of Golf: Complete Results of the Open, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Masters, 1860-2008 1 Morgan G. Brenner 2009 McFarland 978-0-7864-3360-5 Friday, 10 September 1875 PlacePlayerScoreMoney1 SCO Willie Park Sr. 56-59-51=166 £82 SCO Bob Martin 56-58-54=168 £53 SCO Mungo Park 59-57-55=171 £34 SCO Bob Ferguson 58-56-58=172 £15 SCO James Rennie 61-59-57=177 £16 SCO Davie Strath 59-61-58=178 £1T7 SCO Tom Carson 181 £1 SCO Bob Pringle 62-58-61=181T9 SCO William Doleman (a) 65-59-59=183 SCO Hugh Morrison 62-59-62=183 References External links Prestwick 1875 (Official site) 56.043 -2.823 type:event title Category:The Open Championship Category:Prestwick Category:Sport in South Ayrshire Category:Golf tournaments in Scotland Open Championship Open Championship Open Championship