2003 Open Championship

2003 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates	17 - 20 July 2003
Location	Sandwich, England
Course(s)	Royal St George's Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour PGA European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	7,106
Field	156 players, 73 after cut
Cut	151 (+9)
Prize fund	£3,900,000 $6,240,000
Winner's share	£700,000 $1,112,720
Champion
Ben Curtis
283 (-1)

The 2003 Open Championship was the 132nd Open Championship held from 17-20 July at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England. Ben Curtis won his first major by one stroke over 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 bunker on the 16th hole and ended up losing by one shot to Curtis.^[1] Curtis was playing in his first major tournament and he became the first debutant Open winner since Tom Watson in 1975.^[2]

1 Round summaries
2 References
3 External links

Round summaries

First round

#	Player	Country	Score	To par^[3]
1	Hennie Otto	South Africa	68	-3
T2	Davis Love III	United States	69	-2
T2	Greg Norman	Australia	69	-2
T4	S.K. Ho	South Korea	70	-1
T4	Fredrik Jacobson	Sweden	70	-1
T6	Fred Couples	United States	71	E
	Gary Evans	England
	Mathias Grönberg	Sweden
	Charles Howell III	United States
	Thomas Levet	France
	Scott McCarron	United States
	Tom Watson	United States

Second round

#	Player	Country	Score	To par^[4]
1	Davis Love III	United States	69-72=141	-1
T2	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	73-70=143	+1
T2	S.K. Ho	South Korea	70-73=143	+1
T4	Ben Curtis	United States	72-72=144	+2
	Alastair Forsyth	Scotland	74-70=144
	Sergio García	Spain	73-71=144
	Thomas Levet	France	71-73=144
	Hennie Otto	South Africa	68-76-144
	Kenny Perry	United States	74-70=144
	Marco Ruiz	Paraguay	73-71=144

Amateurs: Barnes (+11), Wolstenholme (+14), Godfrey (+18).

Third round

#	Player	Country	Score	To par^[5]
1	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	73-70-69=212	-1
2	Davis Love III	United States	69-72-72=213	E
T3	Ben Curtis	United States	72-72-70=214	+1
	Sergio García	Spain	73-71-70=214
	Kenny Perry	United States	74-70-70=214
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	75-70-69=214
	Tiger Woods	United States	73-72-69=214
T8	S.K. Ho	South Korea	70-73-72=215	+2
T8	Phillip Price	Wales	74-72-69=215	+2
T10	Gary Evans	England	71-75-70=216	+3
	Pierre Fulke	Sweden	77-72-67=216
	Fredrik Jacobson	Sweden	70-76-70=216
	Peter Lonard	Australia	73-73-70-216

Final leaderboard

#	Player	Country	Score	To par	Winnings
1	Ben Curtis	United States	72-72-70-69=283	-1	£700,000
T2	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	73-70-69-72=284	E	£345,000
T2	Vijay Singh	Fiji	75-70-69-70=284	E	£345,000
T4	Davis Love III	United States	69-72-72-72=285	+1	£185,000
T4	Tiger Woods	United States	73-72-69-71=285	+1	£185,000
T6	Brian Davis	England	77-73-68-68=286	+2	£134,500
T6	Fredrik Jacobson	Sweden	70-76-70-70=286	+2	£134,500
T8	Nick Faldo	England	76-74-67-70=287	+3	£155,383
T8	Kenny Perry	United States	74-70-70-73=287	+3	£155,383
T10	Gary Evans	England	71-75-70-72=288	+4	£97,750
	Sergio García	Spain	73-71-70-74=288
	Retief Goosen	South Africa	73-75-71-69=288
	Hennie Otto	South Africa	68-76-75-69=288
	Phillip Price	Wales	74-72-69-73=288

References

^ Bunkered Bjorn's sandy sorrow
^ Ben who?
^ "PGA European Tour - Tournaments". Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2003040&roundno=1. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
^ "PGA European Tour - Tournaments". Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2003040&roundno=2. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
^ "PGA European Tour - Tournaments". Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. http://www.europeantour.com/default.sps?syndicatorguid=&rmasiteinstanceguid=&pagegid=%7BAEFB93B0-EFF5-4C05-AB0F-FD08D947D944%7D&infosid=1&eventid=2003040&roundno=3. Retrieved 2009-08-23.

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Summary and full results

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