1948 Open Championship

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1948 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates	30 June – 2 July 1948
Location	Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland
Course(s)	Muirfield
Statistics
Par	71
Field	97 players, 36 after cut^[1]
Cut	148 (+6)
Prize fund	£1,000 $4,000
Winner's share	£150 $600^[2]
Champion
Henry Cotton
284 (E)

Muirfield

Location in Scotland

The 1948 Open Championship was the 77th Open Championship, held 30 June to 2 July at Muirfield in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Henry Cotton, age 41, won his third and final Open title, five strokes ahead of runner-up and defending champion Fred Daly.^[2]

Charlie Ward, Sam King, and Flory Van Donck shot 69 to share the first round lead. Henry Cotton opened with a 71, then took the lead with a 66 in the second round, one off his own tournament record set in 1934. While scoring conditions in the first two rounds were ideal, with five other rounds of sub-70 in the second, the change in weather on the final day caused scores to soar. Over the final two rounds no player recorded a round below 70. Cotton carded rounds of 75-72 to set a clubhouse lead of 284 that no one came close to matching. Fred Daly came closest with a 289, five-shots behind.

Argentine Roberto De Vicenzo made his Open Championship debut and finished in third place. Over the next two years he followed with another third and a runner-up finish. He would eventually win the title 19 years later, in 1967.

Final leaderboard

Friday, 2 July 1948

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Henry Cotton	England	71-66-75-72=284	E
2	Fred Daly	Northern Ireland	72-71-73-73=289	+5
T3	Roberto De Vicenzo	Argentina	70-73-72-75=290	+6
	Jack Hargreaves	England	76-68-73-73=290
	Norman Von Nida	Australia	71-72-76-71=290
	Charlie Ward	England	69-72-75-74=290
T7	Johnny Bulla	United States	74-72-73-72=291	+7
	Sam King	England	69-72-74-76=291
	Alf Padgham	England	73-70-71-77=291
	Flory Van Donck	Belgium	69-73-73-76=291

References

↑ "Media Guide". The Open Championship. 2011. p. 90. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Cotton captures third British Open golf title". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. 3 July 1948. p. 11. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

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Preceded by 1948 U.S. Open	Major Championships	Succeeded by 1949 Masters Tournament

v t e 1948 Men's Major Golf Championships

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v t e The Open Championships

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