1963 Open Championship

The 1963 Open Championship was a golf competition held at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club. The competition was won by Bob Charles.

Contents

Round summaries

First round

# Player Country Score To par
T1 Phil Rodgers  United States 67 -4
Peter Thomson  Australia
T3 Bob Charles  New Zealand 68 -3
Tom Haliburton  Scotland
T5 Kel Nagle  Australia 69 -2
Ramón Sota  Spain
T7 Frank Phillips  Australia 70 -1
Donald Swaelens  Belgium
Brian Wilkes  South Africa
T10 Geoffrey Hunt  England 71 E
Alex King  England
Hugh Lewis  England
Ian MacDonald  Scotland
Jack Nicklaus  United States
Sewsunker Sewgolum  South Africa

Second round

# Player Country Score To par
1 Phil Rodgers  United States 67-68=135 -7
2 Peter Thomson  Australia 67-69=136 -6
3 Jack Nicklaus  United States 71-67=138 -4
4 Kel Nagle  Australia 69-70=139 -3
5 Bob Charles  New Zealand 68-72=140 -2
T6 Jean Garaïalde  France 72-69=141 -1
Tom Haliburton  Scotland 68-73=141
T8 Ian MacDonald  Scotland 71-71=142 E
Sebastián Miguel  Spain 73-69=142
Christy O'Connor Snr  Ireland 74-68=142
Ramón Sota  Spain 69-73=142

Amateurs: Hood (+10), Saddler (+10), Carr (+13), Neech (+14), Rutherford (+14), Bonallack (+17), Bowman (+17), Stockdale (+19).

Third round

# Player Country Score To par
1 Bob Charles  New Zealand 68-72-66=206 -7
2 Peter Thomson  Australia 67-69-71=207 -6
T3 Jack Nicklaus  United States 71-67-70=208 -5
Phil Rodgers  United States 67-68-73=208
5 Kel Nagle  Australia 69-70-73=212 -1
6 Jean Garaïalde  France 72-69-72=213 E
T7 Harold Henning  South Africa 76-68-71=215 +2
Sebastián Miguel  Spain 73-69-73=215
Ramón Sota  Spain 69-73-73=215
T10 Bernard Hunt  England 72-71-73=216 +3
Ian MacDonald  Scotland 71-71-74=216

Final leaderboard

# Player Country Score To par
1 Bob Charles*  New Zealand 68-72-66-71=277 -7
2 Phil Rodgers  United States 67-68-73-69=277
3 Jack Nicklaus  United States 71-67-70-70=278 -6
4 Kel Nagle  Australia 69-70-73-71=283 -1
5 Peter Thomson  Australia 67-69-71-78=285 +1
6 Christy O'Connor Snr  Ireland 74-68-76-68=286 +2
T7 Gary Player  South Africa 75-70-72-70=287 +3
Ramón Sota  Spain 69-73-73-72=287
T9 Jean Garaïalde  France 72-69-72-75=288 +4
Sebastián Miguel  Spain 73-69-73-73=288

*Charles won in a 36-hole playoff (Charles 69-71=140, Rodgers 72-76=148).

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Preceded by
1963 U.S. Open Golf Championship
Major Championships Succeeded by
1963 PGA Championship