2003 Open Championship

May 2020 August 2013 2003 Open Championship 17–20 July 2003 Sandwich, England Royal St George's Golf Club European TourPGA TourJapan Golf Tour The R&A 71 7106 yd 156 players, 75 after cut 150 (+8) £3,900,000 €5,631,600$6,240,000 £700,000 €1,010,800$1,112,720 USA Ben Curtis 283 (−1) 2002 2004 UK England 1 Sandwich 51.274 1.367 Location in England 240 The 2003 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 132nd Open Championship, held from 17 to 20 July at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England. Ben Curtis won his only major title, one stroke ahead of runners-up Thomas Bjørn and Vijay Singh. Bjørn had led in the final round by two shots with three holes to play, but needed three attempts to play out of a greenside bunker on the 16th hole.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/golf/the_open_2003/3083257.stm Bunkered Bjorn's sandy sorrow 21 July 2003 19 April 2018 BBC Sporthttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1029208/index.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20110802041329/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1029208/index.htm dead 2 August 2011 Sports Illustrated Bamberger Michael A major major upset 28 July 2003 24 June 2013 Playing in his first major championship and number 396 in the world rankings, Curtis became the first debut winner at The Open since Tom Watson in 1975.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/golf/the_open_2003/3082447.stm Ben who? 20 July 2003 19 April 2018 BBC Sporthttps://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LJoNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0XADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6188%2C102192 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Ferguson Doug Associated Press Rookie pulls off stunner 21 July 2003 C-1 24 June 2013https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LJoNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0XADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6633%2C109899 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Newberry Paul Associated Press Caught in a trap 21 July 2003 C-3 24 June 2013 Course layout Royal St George's Golf Club Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal Yards4424182104974201725324553883,5344142423814595504751634284603,5727,106Par443543544364344543443571 Source:http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx The Open Championship Media guide 2011 5 29 June 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120418224641/http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx 18 April 2012 The 4th hole was a par 4 in previous Opens Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx The Open Championship Media guide 2011 27, 203 2 July 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120418224641/http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx 18 April 2012 1993: 6860 yd 0, par 70 1985: 6857 yd, par 70 1981: 6827 yd, par 70 Field 1. Top 15 and ties from the 2002 Open Championship Stuart Appleby (4), Thomas Bjørn (4,5,18), Steve Elkington, Ernie Els (2,3,4,5,10,14), Gary Evans, Sergio García (4,5,14,18), Retief Goosen (4,5,10,14), Søren Hansen (5), Pádraig Harrington (4,5,18), Justin Leonard (2,3,4,14), Thomas Levet, Peter Lonard (4,22), Davis Love III (4,13,18), Shigeki Maruyama (4,14), Peter O'Malley (22), Nick Price (2,3,4,14) Scott Hoch (4,18) did not play. 2. Open Champions, 1993–2002 John Daly (3), David Duval (3,18), Paul Lawrie (3,4,5), Tom Lehman (3), Greg Norman (3), Mark O'Meara (3), Tiger Woods (3,4,10,11,12,13,14,18) 3. Past Open Champions aged 65 or under on 20 July 2003 Mark Calcavecchia (18), Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson Seve Ballesteros withdrew. Ian Baker-Finch, Tony Jacklin, Johnny Miller, Jack Nicklaus, Bill Rogers, Lee Trevino, and Tom Weiskopf did not enter. 4. The first 50 players on the OWGR on 29 May 2003 Robert Allenby (14), Rich Beem (12,14), Ángel Cabrera (5), Michael Campbell (5), Paul Casey, K. J. Choi (14), Darren Clarke (18), Fred Couples, Chris DiMarco (14), Bob Estes, Niclas Fasth (5,18), Brad Faxon, Steve Flesch, Fred Funk (14), Jim Furyk (10,14,18), Jay Haas, Charles Howell III (14), Trevor Immelman (5,24), Jerry Kelly (14), Bernhard Langer (5,18), Len Mattiace (14), Phil Mickelson (14,18), Colin Montgomerie (5,6,18), Craig Parry (22), Kenny Perry, Chris Riley, Eduardo Romero (5), Justin Rose (5), Adam Scott (5), Vijay Singh (11,12,14), Jeff Sluman (14), David Toms (12,14,18), Scott Verplank (18), Mike Weir (11) Rocco Mediate and Kirk Triplett did not play. 5. Top 20 in the final 2002 European Tour Order of Merit Bradley Dredge, Anders Hansen (6), Stephen Leaney, José María Olazábal (11) 6. The Volvo PGA Championship winners for 2000–03 Ignacio Garrido, Andrew Oldcorn 7. First 5 players, not exempt, in the top 20 of the 2003 European Tour Order of Merit as of 29 May Brian Davis, Robert-Jan Derksen, Kenneth Ferrie, Mathias Grönberg, Freddie Jacobson 8. First 7 European Tour members, not exempt, in the top 25 of a cumulative money list taken from all official European Tour events from the 2003 Volvo PGA Championship up to and including the 2003 Scottish Open Alastair Forsyth, Philip Golding, David Howell, Søren Kjeldsen, Mark McNulty, Greg Owen, Ian Poulter 9. The leading 8 players, not exempt having applied (8) above, in the 2003 Scottish Open Raphaël Jacquelin, David Lynn, Rolf Muntz, Gary Murphy, Nick O'Hern, Iain Pyman, Mark Roe, Charl Schwartzel 10. The U.S. Open Champions for 1994–2003 Lee Janzen, Corey Pavin Steve Jones did not play. 11. The Masters Champions for 1999–2003 12. The PGA Champions for 1998–2002 13. The Players Champions for 2000–03 Craig Perks, Hal Sutton (18) 14. Top 20 in the final 2002 PGA Tour Official Money List 15. First 5 players, not exempt, in the top 20 of the 2003 PGA Tour Official Money List as of 29 May Chad Campbell 16. First 7 PGA Tour members, not exempt, in the top 25 of a cumulative money list taken from the 2003 Players Championship and the five PGA Tour events leading up to and including the 2003 Western Open Joe Durant, Jonathan Kaye, Cliff Kresge, J. L. Lewis, Rory Sabbatini, Duffy Waldorf Joey Sindelar did not play. 17. The leading 8 players, not exempt having applied (16) above, in the 2003 Western Open Tom Byrum, José Cóceres, Ben Curtis, Luke Donald, Dudley Hart, Skip Kendall, Scott McCarron, Chris Smith 18. Playing members of the 2002 Ryder Cup teams Paul Azinger, Stewart Cink, Pierre Fulke, Paul McGinley, Jesper Parnevik, Phillip Price, Lee Westwood 19. The 2002 Canadian Open Champion John Rollins 20. The 2002 Japan Open Champion David Smail 21. Winner of the 2002 Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit Jyoti Randhawa 22. Top 3 from the 2002–03 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit 23. Top 3 from the 2002 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit Shingo Katayama, Nobuhito Sato, Toru Taniguchi 24. Top 2 from the 2002–03 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit Mark Foster 25. The leading player, not exempt, in the 2003 Mizuno Open Todd Hamilton 26. First 4, not exempt having applied (25) above, in the top 20 of a cumulative money list taken from all official Japan Golf Tour events from the 2003 Japan PGA Championship up to and including the 2003 Mizuno Open Hur Suk-ho, Hirofumi Miyase, Hideto Tanihara, Katsuyoshi Tomori 27. The 2002 Senior British Open Champion Noboru Sugai 28. The 2003 Amateur Champion Gary Wolstenholme (a) 29. The 2002 U.S. Amateur Champion Ricky Barnes (a) 30. The 2002 European Amateur Champion Raphaël Pellicioli forfeited his exemption by turning pro. Final Qualifying (Sunday 13 July and Monday 14 July) Littlestone – Steven Bowditch, Robert Coles, Scott Godfrey (a), Adam Le Vesconte, Christopher Smith, Anthony Wall, Paul Wesselingh North Foreland – Gary Emerson, Andrew George, Adam Mednick, Mårten Olander, Hennie Otto, Anthony Sproston, Simon Wakefield Prince's – Mathew Goggin, Jarrod Moseley, Cameron Percy, Andrew Raitt, Marco Ruiz, Steen Tinning, Ian Woosnam Royal Cinque Ports – Markus Brier, Charles Challen, Ben Crane, Peter Fowler, Euan Little, Malcolm MacKenzie, Mark Smith Round summaries First round Thursday, 17 July 2003 PlacePlayerScoreTo parPGA European Tour - Tournaments http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2003040&roundno=1 https://archive.today/20090904162907/http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2003040&roundno=1 4 September 2009 dead 23 August 20091 ZAF Hennie Otto68−3T2 USA Davis Love III69−2 AUS Greg NormanT4 KOR 1997 S.K. Ho70−1 SWE Freddie JacobsonT6 USA Fred Couples71E ENG Gary Evans SWE Mathias Grönberg USA Charles Howell III FRA Thomas Levet USA Scott McCarron USA Tom Watson Second round Friday, 18 July 2003 PlacePlayerScoreTo parPGA European Tour - Tournaments http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2003040&roundno=2 4 September 2009 dead 23 August 2009 https://archive.today/20090904162913/http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2003040&roundno=21 USA Davis Love III69-72=141−1T2 DEN Thomas Bjørn73-70=143+1 KOR 1997 S.K. Ho70-73=143T4 USA Ben Curtis72-72=144+2 SCO Alastair Forsyth74-70=144 ESP Sergio García73-71=144 FRA Thomas Levet71-73=144 ZAF Hennie Otto68-76=144 USA Kenny Perry74-70=144 PAR 1990 Marco Ruiz73-71=144 Amateurs: Barnes (+11), Wolstenholme (+14), Godfrey (+18). Third round Saturday, 19 July 2003 Mark Roe shot a 67 to finish at one over par, but he and playing partner Jesper Parnevik were disqualified, having failed to exchange scorecards and therefore having signed incorrect scorecards.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/golf/the_open_2003/3080539.stm Roe and Parnevik disqualified BBC Sport 19 July 2003 13 July 2016 The rule that resulted in the disqualifications was changed two years later;http://www.golftoday.co.uk/news/yeartodate/news05/roe.html Mark Roe welcomes new rules change Golf Today 13 July 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161110105246/http://www.golftoday.co.uk/news/yeartodate/news05/roe.html 10 November 2016 dead Roe never played in another major.http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/players/playerid=171/record/index.html Mark Roe Career Record PGA European Tour 13 July 2016 PlacePlayerScoreTo parPGA European Tour - Tournaments http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2003040&roundno=3 https://archive.today/20090904162919/http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2003040&roundno=3 4 September 2009 dead 23 August 20091 DEN Thomas Bjørn73-70-69=212−12 USA Davis Love III69-72-72=213ET3 USA Ben Curtis72-72-70=214+1 ESP Sergio García73-71-70=214 USA Kenny Perry74-70-70=214 FJI Vijay Singh75-70-69=214 USA Tiger Woods73-72-69=214T8 KOR 1997 Hur Suk-ho70-73-72=215+2 WAL Phillip Price74-72-69=215T10 ENG Gary Evans71-75-70=216+3 SWE Pierre Fulke77-72-67=216 SWE Freddie Jacobson70-76-70=216 AUS Peter Lonard73-73-70=216 Final round Sunday, 20 July 2003 Ben Curtis shot six-under in the first 11 holes to grab a 2 stroke lead, but dropped four strokes in the next six holes to fall behind, and sank a 10 ft 0 on par putt on the final hole to post the clubhouse lead. Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods also moved into early contention, but fell behind Curtis with late bogeys, leaving Thomas Bjørn with a three stroke lead with four holes to play. He finished bogey-double bogey-bogey-par and tied for second, one stroke back. It was not only Curtis' first win, but his first top-10 finish in a PGA Tour event. PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (£)1 USA Ben Curtis 72-72-70-69=283 −1 700,000T2 DNK Thomas Bjørn 73-70-69-72=284 E 345,000 FJI Vijay Singh 75-70-69-70=284 T4 USA Davis Love III 69-72-72-72=285 +1 185,000 USA Tiger Woods 73-72-69-71=285 T6 ENG Brian Davis 77-73-68-68=286 +2 134,500 SWE Freddie Jacobson 70-76-70-70=286T8 ENG Nick Faldo 76-74-67-70=287 +3 155,383 USA Kenny Perry 74-70-70-73=287 T10 ENG Gary Evans 71-75-70-72=288 +4 97,750 ESP Sergio García 73-71-70-74=288 ZAF Retief Goosen 73-75-71-69=288 ZAF Hennie Otto 68-76-75-69=288 WAL Phillip Price 74-72-69-73=288 Source:http://www.databasegolf.com/tourneys/tournament_byyear.htm?yr=2003&tid=8 databasegolf.com 2003 Open Championship results 2 July 2012 Scorecard Final round Hole123456789101112131415161718Par443543544 434454344 USA Curtis E E E −1 −1 −1 −2 −2 −3 −4 −5 −4 −4 −3 −2 −2 −1 −1 DEN Bjørn E E −1 −2 −2 −2 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 −4 −3 −1 E E FIJ Singh +1 E E E −1 −2 −3 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1 E −1 −1 E E E USA Love +1 +2 +2 +3 +3 +2 +2 +2 +3 +2 +2 +1 E E E E +1 +1 USA Woods +1 +1 +1 E −1 −1 −2 −1 −1 E E E E −1 E E +1 +1 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par Source:https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard?tournamentId=142 ESPN British Open Championship 10 August 2015 References External links Royal St George's 2003 (Official site) 132nd Open Championship - Royal St George's (European Tour) 2003 51.274 1.367 type:event title Category:The Open Championship Category:Golf tournaments in England Open Championship Open Championship Open Championship Category:Sandwich, Kent Category:Sport in Kent Category:2000s in Kent