2000 Senior British Open

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2000 Senior British Open
Tournament information
Dates27–30 July 2000
Location Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
54°13′05″N5°53′02″W / 54.218°N 5.884°W / 54.218; -5.884
Course(s) Royal County Down Golf Club
Organised by The R&A
Tour(s)
Format72 holes stroke play
Statistics
Par71
Length6,609 yd (6,043 m)
Field132 players, 64 after cut
Cut150 (+8)
Prize fund 651,612
Winner's share 102,758
Champion
Flag of Ireland.svg Christy O'Connor Jnr
275 (−9)
Location map
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Royal County Down GC
Location in Europe
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Royal County Down GC
Location in British Isles
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Location in Northern Ireland
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The 2000 Senior British Open, for sponsor reasons named Senior British Open presented by MasterCard, was a professional golf tournament for players aged 50 and above and the 14th British Senior Open Championship, held from 27 to 30 July at Royal County Down Golf Club in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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In 2018, the tournament was, as all Senior British Open Championships played 1987–2002, retroactively recognized as a senior major golf championship and a PGA Tour Champions (at the time named the Senior PGA Tour) event. [1]

Christy O'Connor Jnr beat John Bland by two strokes and successfully defended his Senior British Open title from 1999. Bland repeated his second-place finish from the year before. [2] [3]

Venue

The hosting course, one of the oldest on the island of Ireland, originally designed by Old Tom Morris and located in naturally links settings in the Murlough Nature Reserve, stretching along the shores of Dundrum Bay, was established in 1889. [4]

The course had previously hosted several editions of the Irish Open, The Amateur Championship, the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship and the 1968 Curtis Cup.

The event was the first of three editions of the Senior British Open held at the Royal County Down Golf Club three years in a row. [5]

Course layout

HoleYardsPar  HoleYardsPar
15025101973
23714113844
34544124795
41943134214
54164142023
63694154494
71443162764
84244173754
94244185285
Out3,29835In3,31136
Source: [6] Total6,60971

Field

132 players, 124 professionals and eight amateurs, entered the competition.

Two qualifying tournaments were held on Tuesday 25 July. 28 players, 25 professionals and three amateurs qualified through an 18-hole qualifying round at Kilkeel Golf Club. 28 players, 25 professionals and three amateurs qualified through an 18-hole qualifying round at Spa Golf Club on 24 July. They joined 76 players, who were exempt into the championship. [7] [8]

One player withdraw before the cut. 64 players, 60 professionals and four amateurs, made the 36-hole cut. Ken Forster finished leading amateur at tied 33rd.

Past champions in the field

Eight past Senior Open champions participated. Four of them made the 36-hole cut; 1999 champion Christy O'Connor Jnr (won), 1989 and 1993 champion Bob Charles (tied 5th). 1987 champion Neil Coles, (tied 10th) and 1991 champion Bobby Verway (tied 12th).1992 champion John Fourie, 1998 champion Brian Huggett, 1988, 1990 and 1997 champion Gary Player missed the cut. 1995 and 1996 champion Brian Barnes withdraw during the first round.

Past winners and runners-up at The Open Championship in the field

The field included two former winners of The Open Championship. One of them made the cut; 1963 Open champion Bob Charles (tied 5th). 1959, 1968 and 1974 Open champion Gary Player did not make the cut.

The field also included two former runners-up at The Open Championship; Neil Coles (tied 10th) and Brian Huggett (missed the cut).

Final results

Sunday, 30 July 2000

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ()
1 Flag of Ireland.svg Christy O'Connor Jnr 69-68-70-68=275−9102,758.06
2 Flag of South Africa.svg John Bland 68-67-71-71=277−765,421.01
3 Flag of the United States.svg Hubert Green 68-72-68-71=279−538,018.86
4 Flag of England.svg John Morgan 71-71-69-69=280−430,843.65
5 Flag of New Zealand.svg Bob Charles 75-68-71-67=281−325,324.26
T6 Flag of Japan.svg Seiji Ebihara 71-70-70-74=285+120,291.88
Flag of England.svg Tommy Horton 75-69-68-73=285
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Noel Ratcliffe 67-73-71-74=285
Flag of the United States.svg Dave Stockton 73-69-73-70=285
T10 Flag of England.svg Neil Coles 72-71-71-72=286+215,503.00
Flag of England.svg Malcolm Gregson 76-68-69-73=286

Source: [2]

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54°13′05″N5°53′02″W / 54.218°N 5.884°W / 54.218; -5.884