1966 Open Championship

June 2024 August 2013 1966 Open Championship 6–9 July 1966 Gullane, Scotland Muirfield Golf Links 71 6887 yd 130 players, 64 after cut 150 (+8)http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx The Open Championship Media guide 2011 70, 203 13 May 2017 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120418224641/http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx 18 April 2012 £15,000$42,000 £2,100 $5,880 USA Jack Nicklaus 282 (−2) 1965 1967 UK Scotland 1 Muirfield 56.043 -2.823 Location in Scotland bottom 5 230 Scotland East Lothian Muirfield 56.043 -2.823 Location in East Lothian, Scotland 5 230 The 1966 Open Championship was the 95th Open Championship, held 6–9 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Jack Nicklaus won the first of his three Claret Jugs, one stroke ahead of runners-up Doug Sanders and Dave Thomas.http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1966/07/10/page/47/article/nicklaus-wins-british-open-by-stroke Chicago Tribune Associated Press Nicklaus wins British Open by stroke 10 July 1966 1, sec. 2 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l39AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y6MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1600%2C1390625 Glasgow Herald Jacobs Raymond Nicklaus's Open at fifth attempt 11 July 1966 4 It was the sixth of eighteen major titles for Nicklaus and marked the completion of the first of his three career grand slams.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BudVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UOEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2018%2C1700814 Eugene Register-Guard Oregon Associated Press Happy Nicklaus plans return trip 10 July 1966 1Bhttps://www.si.com/vault/1966/07/18/620338/smiling-jack-wins-a-rough-one Sports Illustrated Wright Alfred Smiling Jack wins a rough one 18 July 1966 20 This was the first Open to be scheduled over four days, with one round each day, finishing on Saturday. Previous editions had played the third and fourth rounds on Friday. The U.S. Open changed to a four-day schedule the previous year in 1965, moving its final round from Saturday afternoon to Sunday. The Open Championship operated on a Wednesday through Saturday schedule through 1979. It was the final Open for 1964 champion Tony Lema, who died in a plane crash two weeks later, hours after the PGA Championship.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KHhQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VBEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5008%2C4871934 Milwaukee Sentinel United Press International Lema plane crash probed 26 July 1966 1-sports Nicklaus has described Muirfield as "the best golf course in Britain."Muirfield club steeped in tradition https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w71jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nXoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5498,3825391 Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon) Reuters 14 July 1980 B1 He later developed a championship golf course and community in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb north of his hometown of Columbus. Opened in 1974, Nicklaus named it Muirfield Village and it hosts his Memorial Tournament, a top invitational event on the PGA Tour since 1976. Course Muirfield Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal Yards4293633851875164731874514953,4864753633851544624071985284293,4016,887 Par444354345364443443543571 Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ln9AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y6MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1318%2C1335359 Glasgow Herald Card of course 9 July 1966 13 Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950): 1959: 6806 yd, par 72 Round summaries First round Wednesday, 6 July 1966 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 ENG Jimmy Hitchcock70−1 USA Jack NicklausT3 ZAF 1928 Harold Henning71E USA Tony Lema USA Doug Sanders SCO Ronnie Shade (a)T7 ENG Fred Boobyer72+1 ENG John Carter ENG Alex Caygill IRL Christy Greene AUS Kel Nagle ZAF 1928 Gary Player WAL Dave Thomas Second round Thursday, 7 July 1966 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 USA Jack Nicklaus70-67=137−52 ENG Peter Butler73-65=138−4T3 ZAF 1928 Harold Henning71-69=140−2 AUS Kel Nagle72-68=140 USA Phil Rodgers74-66=140T6 USA Doug Sanders71-70=141−1 SCO Ronnie Shade (a)71-70=1418 AUS Bruce Devlin73-69=142E9 ENG Alex Caygill72-71=143+110 USA Julius Boros73-71=144+2 Amateurs: Shade (-1), Cole (+4), Townsend (+6), Bonallack (+7),Millensted (+12), Smith (+13), Falkenburg (+22) Third round Friday, 8 July 1966 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 USA Phil Rodgers74-66-70=210−32 USA Jack Nicklaus70-67-75=212−13 USA Doug Sanders71-70-72=213ET4 USA Arnold Palmer73-72-69=214+1 WAL Dave Thomas72-73-69=2146 ZAF 1928 Harold Henning71-69-75=215+2T7 ENG Alex Caygill72-71-73=216+3 AUS Bruce Devlin73-69-74=216 ESP 1945 Sebastián Miguel74-72-70=216 AUS Kel Nagle72-68-76=216 SCO Ronnie Shade (a)71-70-75=216 Final round Saturday, 9 July 1966 PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (£)1 USA Jack Nicklaus 70-67-75-70=282 −22,100T2 USA Doug Sanders 71-70-72-70=283 −11,350 WAL Dave Thomas 72-73-69-69=283T4 AUS Bruce Devlin 73-69-74-70=286 +2696 AUS Kel Nagle 72-68-76-70=286 ZAF 1928 Gary Player 72-74-71-69=286 USA Phil Rodgers 74-66-70-76=286T8 USA Dave Marr 73-76-69-70=288 +4330 ESP 1945 Sebastián Miguel 74-72-70-72=288 USA Arnold Palmer 73-72-69-74=288 AUS Peter Thomson 73-75-69-71=288 Source: Amateurs: Shade (+9), Townsend (+11), Bonallack (+13), Cole (+14) References External links Muirfield 1966 (Official site) 1966 56.043 -2.823 title type:event Category:The Open Championship Category:Gullane Category:Sport in East Lothian Category:Golf tournaments in Scotland Open Championship Open Championship Open Championship