1972 Open Championship

The 1972 Open Championship was a golf competition held at Muirfield. The competition was won by Lee Trevino.

Contents

Round summaries

First round

# Player Country Score To par
1 Peter Tupling  England 68 -3
2 Tony Jacklin  England 69 -2
T3 Frank Beard  United States 70 -1
Craig Defoy  Wales
Dave Marr  United States
Jack Nicklaus  United States
Peter Townsend  England
T8 Brian Barnes  Scotland 71 E
John Garner  England
Antonio Garrido  Spain
Gary Player  South Africa
Doug Sanders  United States
Peter Thomson  Australia
Lee Trevino  United States

Second round

# Player Country Score To par
T1 Tony Jacklin  England 69-72=141 -1
Lee Trevino  United States 71-70=141
T3 John Garner  England 71-71=142 E
Johnny Miller  United States 76-66=142
Jack Nicklaus  United States 70-72=142
Gary Player  South Africa 71-71=142
Doug Sanders  United States 71-71=142
Peter Townsend  England 70-72=142
Peter Tupling  England 68-74=142
T10 Brian Barnes  Scotland 71-72=143 +1
Clive Clark  England 72-71=143
Peter Thomson  Australia 71-72=143

Amateurs: Foster (+7), Mosey (+8), Revell (+9), Stephen (+9), Campbell (+11), Homer (+11), Gradwell (+13), Elson (+14), Bonallack (+15), Clark (+15), Berry (+19), Gray (+20).

Third round

# Player Country Score To par
1 Lee Trevino  United States 71-70-66=207 -6
2 Tony Jacklin  England 69-72-67=208 -5
3 Doug Sanders  United States 71-71-69=211 -2
4 Brian Barnes  Scotland 71-72-69=212 -1
5 Jack Nicklaus  United States 70-72-71=213 E
T6 Guy Hunt  England 75-72-67=214 +1
Johnny Miller  United States 76-66-72=214
T8 Dave Marr  United States 70-74-71=215 +2
Arnold Palmer  United States 73-73-69=215
Peter Tupling  England 68-74-73=215

Amateurs: Foster (+14), Mosey (+14), Stephen (+14), Revell (+15).

Final leaderboard

# Player Country Score To par
1 Lee Trevino  United States 71-70-66-71=278 -6
2 Jack Nicklaus  United States 70-72-71-66=279 -5
3 Tony Jacklin  England 69-72-67-72=280 -4
4 Doug Sanders  United States 71-71-69-70=281 -3
5 Brian Barnes  Scotland 71-72-69-71=283 -1
6 Gary Player  South Africa 71-71-76-67=285 +1
T7 Guy Hunt  England 75-72-67-72=286 +2
Arnold Palmer  United States 73-73-69-71=286
David Vaughan  England 74-73-70-69=286
Tom Weiskopf  United States 73-74-70-69=286

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