1888 Open Championship

1888 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates	6, 8 October 1888
Location	St Andrews, Scotland
Course(s)	Old Course at St Andrews
Statistics
Field	52 players^[1]
Prize fund	£20
Winner's share	£8
Champion
Jack Burns
171
«1887 1889»

St Andrews

Location in Scotland

The 1888 Open Championship was the 28th Open Championship, held 6 October at the Old Course at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Jack Burns won the Championship by a stroke from David Anderson, Jr. and Ben Sayers.

Willie Campbell led after 18 holes for the third successive year and was the leader on 84 with Sayers on 85 and a group of four players on 86.

In the afternoon Sayers, in the first group, scored 87 and took an early lead on 172. Campbell made a number of mistakes and scored 90 for a total of 174. Sayers was then joined on 172 by David Anderson. Playing a few groups behind, Burns scored an 85 and took the lead on 171, a score none of the later players could match.

Burns's score for his first round had originally been added up to 87 but an R&A member noticed that it was added up incorrectly and the total was adjusted to 86, making Burns the champion.^[2]

Final leaderboard

Source:^[3]

Saturday, 6 October 1888

Place	Player	Country	Score	Money
1	Jack Burns	Scotland	86-85=171	£8
T2	David Anderson, Jr.	Scotland	86-86=172	Playoff
T2	Ben Sayers	Scotland	85-87=172	Playoff
4	Willie Campbell	Scotland	84-90=174	£2
5	Leslie Balfour (a)	Scotland	86-89=175	−
T6	Davie Grant	Scotland	88-88=176	10s
T6	Andrew Kirkaldy	Scotland	87-89=176	10s
8	Sandy Herd	Scotland	93-84=177	−
9	David Ayton, Sr.	Scotland	87-91=178	−
10	Johnny Laidlay (a)	Scotland	93-87=180	−

Playoff

Monday, 8 October 1888

Anderson and Sayers played an 18-hole play-off two days later. Sayers won and took the second prize of £6, Anderson taking the third prize of £3.^[3]^[4]

References

↑ "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. p. 148. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
↑ "Jack Burns of St. Andrews by Dudley Woods" (PDF). British Golf Collectors’ Society. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
1 2 Brenner, Morgan G. (2009). The Majors of Golf: Complete Results of the Open, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Masters, 1860-2008. 1. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3360-5.
↑ "Golf - The Championship". The Glasgow Herald. 9 October 1888. p. 3.

External links

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