1978 Open Championship

The 1978 Open Championship was a golf competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews. The competition was won by Jack Nicklaus.

Contents

Round summaries

First round

# Player Country Score To par
1 Isao Aoki  Japan 68 -4
T2 Seve Ballesteros  Spain 69 -3
Raymond Floyd  United States
Jack Newton  Australia
Tom Weiskopf  United States
T6 Howard Clark  England 70 -2
Ben Crenshaw  United States
Mark Hayes  United States
Carl Mason  England
Mike Miller (a)  Scotland
Tsuneyuki Nakajima  Japan
Simon Owen  New Zealand

Second round

# Player Country Score To par
T1 Isao Aoki  Japan 68-71=139 -5
Seve Ballesteros  Spain 69-70=139
Ben Crenshaw  United States 70-69=139
T4 Gary Cullen  England 73-67=140 -4
Bob Shearer  Australia 71-69=139
T6 Bob Byman  United States 72-69=141 -3
Tom Kite  United States 72-69=141
Tsuneyuki Nakajima  Japan 70-71=141
Masashi Ozaki  Japan 72-69=141
Tom Watson  United States 73-68=141
Tom Weiskopf  United States 69-72=141

Amateurs: Miller (E), Brodie (+1), McEvoy (+1), Godwin (+3), Gallagher (+6), Kuramoto (+6), Lewis (+8), Webster (+9), Hedges (+11), Fish, (+14), McLachlan (+14), Turner (+14), Walters (+18).

Third round

# Player Country Score To par
T1 Peter Oosterhuis  England 72-70-69=211 -5
Tom Watson  United States 73-68-70=211
T3 Isao Aoki  Japan 68-71-73=212 -4
Ben Crenshaw  United States 70-69-73=212
Jack Nicklaus  United States 71-72-69=212
Simon Owen  New Zealand 70-75-67=212
T7 Nick Faldo  England 71-72-70=213 -3
Tom Kite  United States 72-69-72=213
John Schroeder  United States 74-69-70=213
Tom Weiskopf  United States 69-72-72=213

Amateurs: Miller (+2), Brodie (+4), McEvoy (+5), Godwin (+6).

Final leaderboard

# Player Country Score To par
1 Jack Nicklaus  United States 71-72-69-69=281 -7
T2 Ben Crenshaw  United States 70-69-73-71=283 -5
Raymond Floyd  United States 69-75-71-68=283
Tom Kite  United States 72-69-62-70=283
Simon Owen  New Zealand 70-75-67-71=283
6 Peter Oosterhuis  England 72-70-69-73=284 -4
T7 Isao Aoki  Japan 68-71-73-73=285 -3
Nick Faldo  England 71-72-70-72=285
John Schroeder  United States 74-69-70-72=285
Bob Shearer  Australia 71-69-74-71=285

Amateurs: McEvoy (+5), Miller (+6), Brodie (+7), Godwin (+10).

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