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)	European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	7,106 yards (6,498 m)^[1]
Field	156 players, 75 after cut^[1]
Cut	150 (+8)^[1]
Prize fund	£3,900,000 €5,631,600 $6,240,000
Winner's share	£700,000 €1,010,800 $1,112,720
Champion
Ben Curtis
283 (−1)
«2002 2004»

Sandwich

Location in England

The 2003 Open Championship was the 132nd Open Championship, held 17–20 July at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England. Ben Curtis won his only major title to date, one stroke ahead of runners-up 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 greenside bunker on the 16th hole.^[2]^[3] Playing in his first major championship and number 396 in the world rankings, Curtis became the first debut winner at The Open since Tom Watson in 1975.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Course layout

Main article: Royal St George's Golf Club

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	442	418	210	497	420	172	532	455	388	3,534	414	242	381	459	550	475	163	428	460	3,572	7,106
Par	4	4	3	5	4	3	5	4	4	36	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	35	71

Source:^[7]

The 4th hole was a par 4 in previous Opens

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):^[1]

1993: 6,860 yards (6,273 m), par 70
1985: 6,857 yards (6,270 m), par 70
1981: 6,827 yards (6,243 m), par 70

Field

1. Top 15 and ties from the 2002 Open Championship

Stuart Appleby (4), Thomas Bjørn (4,5,18), Steve Elkington, Ernie Els (2,3,4,5,10,14), Gary Evans, Sergio García (4,5,18,14), Retief Goosen (4,5,10,14), Søren Hansen (5), Pádraig Harrington (4,5,18), Justin Leonard (2,3,4,14), Thomas Levet, Peter Lonard (4,22), Davis Love III (4,13,18), Shigeki Maruyama (4,14), Peter O'Malley (22), Nick Price (2,3,4,14)

Scott Hoch (4,18) did not play.

2. Open Champions, 1993–2002

John Daly (3), David Duval (3,18), Paul Lawrie (3,4,5), Tom Lehman (3), Greg Norman (3), Mark O'Meara (3), Tiger Woods (3,4,10,11,12,13,14,18)

3. Past Open Champions aged 65 or under on 20 July 2003

Mark Calcavecchia (18), Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson

Seve Ballesteros withdrew.
Ian Baker-Finch, Tony Jacklin, Johnny Miller, Jack Nicklaus, Bill Rogers, Lee Trevino, and Tom Weiskopf did not enter.

4. The first 50 players on the OWGR on 29 May 2003

Robert Allenby (14), Rich Beem (12,14), Ángel Cabrera (5), Michael Campbell (5), Paul Casey, K. J. Choi (14), Darren Clarke (18), Fred Couples, Chris DiMarco (14), Bob Estes, Niclas Fasth (5,18), Brad Faxon, Steve Flesch, Fred Funk (14), Jim Furyk (10,14,18), Jay Haas, Charles Howell III (14), Trevor Immelman (5,24), Jerry Kelly (14), Bernhard Langer (5,18), Len Mattiace (14), Phil Mickelson (14,18), Colin Montgomerie (5,6,18), Craig Parry (22), Kenny Perry, Chris Riley, Eduardo Romero (5), Justin Rose (5), Adam Scott (5), Vijay Singh (11,12,14), Jeff Sluman (14), David Toms (12,14,18), Scott Verplank (18), Mike Weir (11)

Rocco Mediate and Kirk Triplett did not play.

5. Top 20 in the final 2002 European Tour Order of Merit

Bradley Dredge, Anders Hansen (6), Stephen Leaney, José María Olazábal (11)

6. The Volvo PGA Championship winners for 2000–03

Ignacio Garrido, Andrew Oldcorn

7. First 5 players, not exempt, in the top 20 of the 2003 European Tour Order of Merit as of 29 May

Brian Davis, Robert-Jan Derksen, Kenneth Ferrie, Mathias Grönberg, Fredrik Jacobson

8. First 7 European Tour members, not exempt, in the top 25 of a cumulative money list taken from all official European Tour events from the 2003 Volvo PGA Championship up to and including the 2003 Scottish Open

Alastair Forsyth, Philip Golding, David Howell, Søren Kjeldsen, Mark McNulty, Greg Owen, Ian Poulter

9. The leading 8 players, not exempt having applied (8) above, in the 2003 Scottish Open

Raphaël Jacquelin, David Lynn, Rolf Muntz, Gary Murphy, Nick O'Hern, Iain Pyman, Mark Roe, Charl Schwartzel

10. The U.S. Open Champions for 1994–2003

Lee Janzen, Corey Pavin

Steve Jones did not play.

11. The Masters Champions for 1999–2003

12. The PGA Champions for 1998–2002

13. The Players Champions for 2000–03

Craig Perks, Hal Sutton (18)

14. Top 20 in the final 2002 PGA Tour Official Money List

15. First 5 players, not exempt, in the top 20 of the 2003 PGA Tour Official Money List as of 29 May

Chad Campbell

16. First 7 PGA Tour members, not exempt, in the top 25 of a cumulative money list taken from the 2003 Players Championship and the five PGA Tour events leading up to and including the 2003 Western Open

Joe Durant, Jonathan Kaye, Cliff Kresge, J. L. Lewis, Rory Sabbatini, Duffy Waldorf

Joey Sindelar did not play.

17. The leading 8 players, not exempt having applied (16) above, in the 2003 Western Open

Tom Byrum, José Cóceres, Ben Curtis, Luke Donald, Dudley Hart, Skip Kendall, Scott McCarron, Chris Smith

18. Playing members of the 2002 Ryder Cup teams

Paul Azinger, Stewart Cink, Pierre Fulke, Paul McGinley, Jesper Parnevik, Phillip Price, Lee Westwood

19. The 2002 Canadian Open Champion

John Rollins

20. The 2002 Japan Open Champion

David Smail

21. Winner of the 2002 Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit

Jyoti Randhawa

22. Top 3 from the 2002–03 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

23. Top 3 from the 2002 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit

Shingo Katayama, Nobuhito Sato, Toru Taniguchi

24. Top 2 from the 2002–03 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

Mark Foster

25. The leading player, not exempt, in the 2003 Mizuno Open

Todd Hamilton

26. First 4, not exempt having applied (25) above, in the top 20 of a cumulative money list taken from all official Japan Golf Tour events from the 2003 Japan PGA Championship up to and including the 2003 Mizuno Open

Hur Suk-ho, Hirofumi Miyase, Hideto Tanihara, Katsuyoshi Tomori

27. The 2002 Senior British Open Champion

Noboru Sugai

28. The 2003 Amateur Champion

Gary Wolstenholme (a)

29. The 2002 U.S. Amateur Champion

Ricky Barnes (a)

30. The 2002 European Amateur Champion

Raphaël Pellicioli forfeited his exemption by turning pro.

Final Qualifying: Littlestone – Steven Bowditch, Robert Coles, Scott Godfrey (a), Adam Le Vesconte, Christopher Smith, Anthony Wall, Paul Wesselingh; North Foreland – Gary Emerson, Andrew George, Adam Mednick, Mårten Olander, Hennie Otto, Anthony Sproston, Simon Wakefield; Prince's – Mathew Goggin, Jarrod Moseley, Cameron Percy, Andrew Raitt, Marco Ruiz, Steen Tinning, Ian Woosnam; Royal Cinque Ports – Markus Brier, Charles Challen, Ben Crane, Peter Fowler, Euan Little, Malcolm MacKenzie, Mark Smith

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Tiger Woods	United States	2000	73	72	69	71	285	+1	T4
Nick Faldo	England	1987, 1990, 1992	76	74	67	70	287	+3	T8
Greg Norman	Australia	1986, 1993	69	79	74	68	290	+6	T18
Tom Watson	United States	1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983	71	77	73	69	290	+6	T18
Ernie Els	South Africa	2002	78	68	72	72	290	+6	T18
Nick Price	Zimbabwe	1994	74	72	72	74	292	+8	T28
Tom Lehman	United States	1996	77	73	72	73	295	+11	T46
Mark O'Meara	United States	1998	73	77	77	71	298	+14	T65
John Daly	United States	1995	75	74	74	80	303	+19	T72

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Justin Leonard	United States	1997	74	77	151	+9
Mark Calcavecchia	United States	1989	78	73	151	+9
Sandy Lyle	Scotland	1985	73	79	152	+10
Paul Lawrie	Scotland	1999	81	74	155	+13
David Duval	United States	2001	83	78	161	+19

Source:^[8]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 17 July 2003

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par^[9]
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

Friday, 18 July 2003

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par^[10]
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

Saturday, 19 July 2003

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par^[11]
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	Hur Suk-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 round

Sunday, 20 July 2003

Ben Curtis shot six-under in the first 11 holes to grab sole possession of the lead, but dropped four strokes in the next six holes to fall behind, and sank a 10-foot (3 m) putt on the final hole to post the clubhouse lead. Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods also moved into early contention, but fell behind Curtis with late bogeys, leaving Thomas Bjørn with a three stroke lead with four holes to play. He finished bogey-double bogey-bogey-par and tied for second, one stroke back.

It was not only Curtis' first win, but his first top-10 finish in a PGA Tour event.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (£)
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

Source:^[8]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	3	5	4	3	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	4	4
Curtis	E	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−4	−5	−4	−4	−3	−2	−2	−1	−1
Bjørn	E	E	−1	−2	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−3	−1	E	E
Singh	+1	E	E	E	−1	−2	−3	−2	−2	−1	−1	−1	E	−1	−1	E	E	E
Love	+1	+2	+2	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+3	+2	+2	+1	E	E	E	E	+1	+1
Woods	+1	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	−2	−1	−1	E	E	E	E	−1	E	E	+1	+1

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:^[12]

References

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↑ Bunkered Bjorn's sandy sorrow
↑ Bamberger, Michael (28 July 2003). "A major major upset". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
↑ Ben who?
↑ Ferguson, Doug (21 July 2003). "Rookie pulls off stunner". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. p. C-1. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
↑ Newberry, Paul (21 July 2003). "Caught in a trap". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. p. C-3. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
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↑ "PGA European Tour - Tournaments". Archived from the original on 4 September 2009. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
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