1982 Open Championship

The 1982 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 111th Open Championship, held from 15 to 18 July at Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Tom Watson won his fourth Open Championship, one stroke ahead of runners-up Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price. It was Watson's second consecutive major victory—he won the U.S. Open a month earlier—and the seventh of his eight major titles.^[4]

1982 Open Championship

Tournament information
Dates	15–18 July 1982
Location	Troon, Scotland
Course	Royal Troon Golf Club
Tour(s)	European Tour PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72[1][2]
Length	7,067 yards (6,462 m)[2][3]
Field	150 players 87 after 1st cut 60 after 2nd cut[2]
Cut	152 (+8) (1st cut) 226 (+10) (2nd cut)[2]
Prize fund	£250,000 $425,000
Winner's share	£32,000 $54,400
Champion
Tom Watson
284 (−4)
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Royal Troon

Location in Scotland

Royal Troon

Location in South Ayrshire, Scotland

Watson became the fifth to win the U.S. Open and the Open Championship in the same year, joining fellow Americans Bobby Jones (1926, 1930), Gene Sarazen (1932), Ben Hogan (1953), and Lee Trevino (1971).^[5] Tiger Woods later won both in 2000.

Watson's previous three Open wins also came in Scotland, at Carnoustie (1975), Turnberry (1977), and Muirfield (1980). His fifth victory in the Open in 1983 came at Royal Birkdale in England.

Course

Main article: Royal Troon Golf Club

Old Course

Hole	Name	Yards	Par		Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Seal	362	4		10	Sandhills	437	4
2	Black Rock	391	4		11	The Railway	481	5
3	Gyaws	381	4		12	The Fox	432	4
4	Dunure	556	5		13	Burmah	468	4
5	Greenan	210	3		14	Alton	180	3
6	Turnberry	577	5		15	Crosbie	457	4
7	Tel-el-Kebir	400	4		16	Well	542	5
8	Postage Stamp	126	3		17	Rabbit	223	3
9	The Monk	419	4		18	Craigend	425	4
Out		3,422	36		In		3,645	36
Source:[2][3]					Total		7,067	72

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):^[6]

1973: 7,064 yards (6,459 m), par 72 1962: 7,045 yards (6,442 m), par 72 1950: 6,583 yards (6,019 m), par 70

Opens from 1962 through 1989 played the 11th hole as a par-5.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 15 July 1982

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Bobby Clampett	67	−5
T2	Nick Price	69	−3
	Tom Watson
T4	Ken Brown	70	−2
	Bernhard Langer
	Des Smyth
T7	Seve Ballesteros	71	−1
	José María Cañizares
	Danny Edwards
	Masahiro Kuramoto
	Johnny Miller
	Arnold Palmer
	Craig Stadler

Source:^[1]

Second round

Friday, 16 July 1982

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Bobby Clampett	67-66=133	−11
2	Nick Price	69-69=138	−6
T3	Bernhard Langer	70-69=139	−5
	Des Smyth	70-69=139
T5	Sandy Lyle	74-66=140	−4
	Tom Watson	69-71=140
T7	Ken Brown	70-71=141	−3
	Peter Oosterhuis	74-67=141
9	Tom Purtzer	76-66=142	−2
T10	José María Cañizares	71-72=143	−1
	David Graham	73-70=143
	Bill Rogers	73-70=143

Amateurs: Lewis (+4), Oldcorn (+9), Plaxton (+9), Stubbs (+10), Thompson (+10), Broadbent (+12), Persson (+12), Rose (+12), Thomson (+12), Ray (+13), Andersson (+16), Young (+17), Higgins (+19), Poxon (+19), Crosby (+22).

Third round

Saturday, 17 July 1982

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Bobby Clampett	67-66-78=211	−5
2	Nick Price	69-69-74=212	−4
T3	Sandy Lyle	74-66-73=213	−3
	Des Smyth	70-69-74=213
5	Tom Watson	69-71-74=214	−2
T6	Masahiro Kuramoto	71-73-71=215	−1
	Peter Oosterhuis	74-67-74=215
T8	Nick Faldo	73-73-71=217	+1
	Bernhard Langer	70-69-78=217
	Tom Purtzer	76-66-75=217
	Denis Watson	75-69-73=217
	Fuzzy Zoeller	73-71-73=217

Amateurs: Lewis (+5).

Final round

Sunday, 18 July 1982

Final leaderboard

Champion

Silver Medal winner (low amateur)

(a) = amateur

(c) = past champion

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	Tom Watson (c)	69-71-74-70=284	−4	32,000
T2	Peter Oosterhuis	74-67-74-70=285	−3	19,300
	Nick Price	69-69-74-73=285
T4	Nick Faldo	73-73-71-69=286	−2	11,000
	Masahiro Kuramoto	71-73-71-71=286
	Tom Purtzer	76-66-75-69=286
	Des Smyth	70-69-74-73=286
T8	Sandy Lyle	74-66-73-74=287	−1	8,750
	Fuzzy Zoeller	73-71-73-70=287
T10	Bobby Clampett	67-66-78-77=288	E	7,350
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	77-70-72-69=288

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
12	Sam Torrance	73-72-73-71=289	+1	8,820
T13	Seve Ballesteros (c)	71-75-73-71=290	+2	7,560
	Bernhard Langer	70-69-78-73=290
T15	Ben Crenshaw	74-75-72-70=291	+3	5,460
	Raymond Floyd	74-73-77-67=291
	Curtis Strange	72-73-76-70=291
	Denis Watson	75-69-73-74=291
19	Ken Brown	70-71-79-72=292	+4	4,060
T20	Isao Aoki	75-69-75-74=293	+5	3,500
	Tōru Nakamura	77-68-77-71=293
T22	José María Cañizares	71-72-79-72=294	+6	3,080
	Johnny Miller (c)	71-76-75-72=294
	Bill Rogers (c)	73-70-76-75=294
T25	Bernard Gallacher	75-71-74-75=295	+7	2,730
	Graham Marsh	76-76-72-71=295
T27	David Graham	70-73-76-77=296	+8	2,240
	Jay Haas	78-72-75-71=296
	Greg Norman	73-75-76-72=296
	Arnold Palmer (c)	71-73-78-74=296
	Lee Trevino (c)	78-72-71-75=296
T32	Mike Miller	74-72-78-73=297	+9	1,680
	Larry Nelson	77-69-77-74=297
	Mark Thomas	72-74-75-76=297
T35	Brian Barnes	75-69-76-78=298	+10	1,166
	Eamonn Darcy	75-73-78-72=298
	Jack Ferenz	76-69-80-73=298
	David A. Russell	72-72-76-78=298
	Craig Stadler	71-74-79-74=298
	Paul Way	72-75-78-73=298
41	Harold Henning	74-74-76-75=299	+11	910
T42	Neil Coles	73-73-72-82=300	+12
	Terry Gale	76-74-75-75=300
	Malcolm Lewis (a)	74-74-77-75=300		0
	Gary Player (c)	75-74-76-75=300		910
	Bob Shearer	73-72-81-74=300
T47	Tienie Britz	81-70-74-76=301	+13
	Roger Chapman	75-76-74-76=301
	Bill Longmuir	77-72-77-75=301
	Brian Waites	75-77-73-76=301
T51	Mark James	74-73-79-76=302	+14	863
	Manuel Piñero	75-75-74-78=302
	Hsu Sheng-san	75-75-75-77=302
T54	Mark McNulty	76-74-76-77=303	+15	840
	Martin Poxon	74-70-78-81=303
	Peter Townsend	76-73-76-78=303
	Keith Waters	73-78-71-81=303
58	Philip Harrison	78-74-74-78=304	+16
59	Michael King	73-78-74-80=305	+17
60	Michael Cahill	73-76-77-80=306	+18
2nd CUT	Rex Caldwell	84-68-75=227	+11	560
	Peter Dawson	78-73-76=227
	Jeff Hawkes	79-73-75=227
	Warren Humphreys	76-75-76=227
	Tom Weiskopf (c)	79-73-75=227
	Chip Beck	75-73-80=228	+12
	John Bland	80-72-76=228
	Paul Hoad	73-79-76=228
	Brian Jones	81-71-76=228
	Tom Kite	73-76-79=228
	Joey Rassett	76-76-76=228
	Hugh Baiocchi	77-75-77=229	+13	525
	Jeremy Bennett	74-73-82=229
	Antonio Garrido	75-77-77=229
	Tommy Horton	77-73-79=229
	Gil Morgan	74-74-81=229
	Vaughan Somers	78-73-78=229
	Brian Evans	77-72-81=230	+14
	Hubert Green	76-75-79=230
	David Matthew	76-76-78=230
	Gordon J. Brand	77-75-79=231	+15
	Simon Owen	73-77-81=231
	Ian Woosnam	78-73-80=231
	Tony Johnstone	75-77-80=232	+16
	Peter Tupling	75-77-81=233	+17
	Simon Bishop	76-75-83=234	+18
	Danny Edwards	71-81-86=238	+22
1st CUT	Bob Charles (c)	79-74=153	+9	315
	Steve Cipa	75-78=153
	Denny Hepler	78-75=153
	Tony Jacklin (c)	77-76=153
	Mark Johnson	76-77=153
	Brian Marchbank	76-77=153
	Carl Mason	78-75=153
	Andrew Oldcorn (a)	79-74=153		0
	Jonathan Plaxton (a)	77-76=153
	Denis Scanlan	78-75=153		315
	Ed Sneed	76-77=153
	Hal Sutton	80-73=153
	Peter Berry	79-75=154	+10
	Gordon Brand Jnr	75-79=154
	Mike Ferguson	76-78=154
	Jaime Gonzalez	78-76=154
	Robert Jamieson	74-80=154
	Steve Rooke	76-78=154
	Ian Stanley (a)	77-77=154		0
	Andrew Stubbs (a)	74-80=154
	Martyn Thompson	78-76=154		315
	Maurice Bembridge	79-76=155	+11
	Pip Elson	79-76=155
	Joe Inman	79-76=155
	Bruce Lietzke	77-78=155
	Jim McAlister	79-76=155
	Christy O'Connor Jnr	76-79=155
	Greg Powers	77-78=155
	Graham Walker	80-75=155
	John Wilkinson	83-72=155
	Paul Bradley	75-81=156	+12
	Gary Broadbent (a)	80-76=156		0
	David Feherty	81-75=156		315
	David Jagger	75-81=156
	Mike McLean	81-75=156
	Magnus Persson (a)	83-73=156		0
	Andy Rose (a)	79-77=156
	John Thomson (a)	79-77=156
	Manuel Calero	83-74=157	+13	315
	John Fowler	76-81=157
	Bill Pelham	78-79=157
	David Ray (a)	84-73=157		0
	Ross Whitehead	78-79=157		315
	Peter Cowan	83-75=158	+14
	Rodger Davis	79-79=158
	Andrew Murray	78-80=158
	Howard Clark	79-80=159	+15
	Steve Martin	81-78=159
	Per Anderrson (a)	81-79=160	+16	0
	Denis Durnian	82-78=160		315
	Hedley Muscroft	81-79=160
	Carlo Knauss	79-82=161	+17
	Keith Lobban	81-80=161
	Ian Young (a)	82-79=161		0
	David Williams	81-81=162	+18	315
	Jimmy Heggarty	81-82=163	+19
	Michael Higgins (a)	83-80=163		0
	Nick Job	83-80=163		315
	Chris Poxon (a)	80-83=163		0
	Nathaniel Crosby (a)	82-84=166	+22
WD	Garry Hay	75	+3	315
	John O'Leary	80	+8
	Jerry Pate	81	+9

Amateurs: Lewis (+12)
Source:^[7]

• The exchange rate at the time was approximately 1.74 dollars (US) per pound sterling.^[8]