1860 Open Championship

May 2024 August 2013 1860 Open Championship 17 October 1860 Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland Prestwick Golf Club 8 players SCO Willie Park, Sr. 174 1861 UK Scotland 1 Prestwick 55.502 -4.619 Location in Scotland 140 right horizontal 200 James Ogilvie Fairlie 1840s salt paper (calotype).PNG James Ogilvie Fairlie, principal organizer of the inaugural 1860 Open Championship, 1847 162 Willie Park Senior wearing the Championship Belt.jpg Willie Park, Sr. wearing the Challenge Belt The 1860 Open Championship was a golf competition held at Prestwick Golf Club, in Ayrshire, Scotland. It is now regarded as the first Open Championship, although the competition would not be open to amateurs until the following year. Until his death in 1859, Allan Robertson was regarded as top golfer in the world. The Open Championship was created to determine his successor.http://www.golftoday.co.uk/golf_international_mag/features/the_coming_of_the_open.html The Coming of The Open - History of The Open Golf Championship Golf Today 2012-10-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20121018153125/http://golftoday.co.uk/golf_international_mag/features/the_coming_of_the_open.html 18 October 2012 dead Eight golfers contested the event, with Willie Park, Sr. winning the championship by 2 shots from Tom Morris, Sr. Prestwick Golf Club organised the event, "to be played for by professional golfers". Golf clubs in Scotland and England were invited to name and send up to three of their best players to compete. The contest was over three rounds of the twelve-hole links course. The prize for winning was the Challenge Belt; a player winning the belt three successive years would keep it. "Cawdies, i.e. Professional Players, not Keepers of Links" were eligible and had to produce a certificate of respectability from their club.Challenge Belt Fife Herald 11 October 1861 21 December 2014 http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000447/18601011/033/0001 British Newspaper Archive subscription George Daniel Brown was the only Englishman to play in the event.http://www.golfcollectors.co.uk/u/cms/TTG_84_2008March.pdf The story of the first Englishman to play in the Open Championship, told by David Malcolm and Peter Crabtree British Golf Collectors' Society 2012-07-18 James Ogilvie Fairlie was the principal organizer of this inaugural Open Championship. In a proposed competition for a "Challenge Belt", Fairlie sent out a series of letters to Aberdeen, Blackheath, Bruntsfield, Carnoustie Panmure, Dirleton Castle, Innerleven, Montrose, North Berwick, Perth, Musselburgh and St. Andrews (as noted in Prestwick Golf Club Archive), inviting a player known as a "respectable caddie" to represent each of the clubs in a tournament to be held on 17 October 1860.Prestwick Golf Club Joy David June 2003 Links Magazine http://www.linksmagazine.com/golf_courses/prestwick-golf-club-6-12-12 1 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160201143332/http://www.linksmagazine.com/golf_courses/prestwick-golf-club-6-12-12 1 February 2016 dead dmy-all The pairings were Tom Morris, Sr. (Prestwick) and Robert Andrew (Perth), Willie Park Sr. (Musselburgh) and Alexander Smith (Bruntsfield), William Steel (Bruntsfield) and Charlie Hunter (Prestwick St Nicholas), George Daniel Brown (Blackheath) and Andrew Strath (St Andrews).Prestwick Golf Club - The Challenge Belt Fife Herald 25 October 1861 21 December 2014 http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000447/18601025/019/0003 British Newspaper Archive subscription Course Hole Name Yards1 Back of Cardinal 5782 Alps 3853 Tunnel (Red) 1674 Wall 4485 Sea Hedrig 4406 Tunnel (White) 3147 Green Hollow 1448 Station 1669 Burn 39510 Lunch House 21311 Short 13212 Home 417 Yardage 3,799 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 PlacePlayerScore1 SCO Willie Park, Sr. 55-59-60=1742 SCO Tom Morris, Sr. 58-59-59=1763 SCO Andrew Strath 1804 SCO Robert Andrew 1915 ENG George Daniel Brown 1926 SCO Charlie Hunter 1957 SCO Alexander Smith 1968 SCO William Steel 232 See also Golf in Scotland References External links Prestwick 1860 (Official site) Category:The Open Championship Category:Prestwick Category:Golf tournaments in Scotland Category:Sport in South Ayrshire Category:History of South Ayrshire Open Championship Open Championship Open Championship