2015 Open Championship

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2015 Open Championship
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Tournament information
Dates16–20 July 2015
Location St Andrews, Scotland
56°20′35″N2°48′11″W / 56.343°N 2.803°W / 56.343; -2.803
Course(s) Old Course
Organized by The R&A
Tour(s)
Statistics
Par72
Length7,297 yd (6,672 m)
Field156 players, 80 after cut
Cut144 (E)
Prize fund £6,300,000 [1]
€8,717,310
$9,831,780
Winner's share£1,150,000 [1]
€1,591,255
$1,794,690
Champion
Flag of the United States.svg Zach Johnson
273 (−15), playoff
Location Map
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St Andrews
Location in the United Kingdom
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St Andrews
Location in Scotland
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St Andrews
Location in Fife
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The 2015 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 144th Open Championship, held from 16 to 20 July at the Old Course at St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. It was the 29th Open Championship played at the course and Zach Johnson won in a four-hole playoff for his second major title.

Contents

World number one Rory McIlroy withdrew prior to the tournament due to an off-course ankle injury; he was the first defending champion absent from the Open in over sixty years, since Ben Hogan opted not to participate in 1954. Masters and U.S. Open champion Jordan Spieth attempted to win a third consecutive major and take over the top ranking. [2] [3] He finished one stroke out of the playoff, in a tie for fourth. [4]

Inclement weather – which included heavy rain and very strong winds – forced play to be suspended twice, on Friday and Saturday, with the latter having play suspended for nearly most of the day. The third round was held on Sunday and the final round (and playoff) on Monday.

This was also the last Open Championship played under the then present TV deals with the BBC and ESPN each having their swan song. NBC and Sky Sports would take over coverage the following year at Royal Troon.

This was the final Open appearance for five-time champion Tom Watson and three-time champion Nick Faldo who played in his last major championship.

Venue

The 2015 event is the 29th Open Championship played at the Old Course at St Andrews. The most recent was in 2010 when Louis Oosthuizen won his only major title and became the second South African to win an Open Championship at St Andrews (Bobby Locke is the first, having won at St Andrews in 1957).

HoleNameYardsParHoleNameYardsPar
1Burn375410Bobby Jones3864
2Dyke452411High (In)1743
3Cartgate (Out)398412Heathery (In)3484
4Ginger Beer480413Hole O'Cross (In)4654
5Hole O'Cross (Out)570514Long6145
6Heathery (Out)414415Cartgate (In)4554
7High (Out)371416Corner of the Dyke4184
8Short174317Road4954
9End352418Tom Morris3564
Out3,58636In3,71136
Source: [5] Total7,29772

Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950): [6]

Field

Criteria and exemptions

Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses. [7] [8]

1. The Open Champions aged 60 or under on 19 July 2015

2. The Open Champions for 2005–2014

3. The Open Champions finishing in the first 10 and tying for 10th place in The Open Championship 2009–2014 [lower-alpha 1]

4. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2014 Open Championship

5. The first 50 players on the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) for Week 21, 2015

6. First 30 in the Race to Dubai for 2014

7. The BMW PGA Championship winners for 2013–2015

8. First 5 European Tour members and any European Tour members tying for 5th place, not otherwise exempt, in the top 20 of the Race to Dubai on completion of the 2015 BMW International Open

9. The U.S. Open Champions for 2011–2015

10. The Masters Tournament Champions for 2011–2015

11. The PGA Champions for 2010–2014

12. The Players Champions for 2013–2015

13. The leading 30 qualifiers for the 2014 Tour Championship

14. First 5 PGA Tour members and any PGA Tour members tying for 5th place, not exempt in the top 20 of the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list for 2015 on completion of the 2015 Travelers Championship

15. Playing members of the 2014 Ryder Cup teams

16. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Asian Tour for 2014

17. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the PGA Tour of Australasia for 2014

18. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Southern Africa PGA Sunshine Tour for 2014

19. The Japan Open Champion for 2014

20. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt, on the Official Money List of the Japan Golf Tour for 2014

21. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, in a cumulative money list taken from all official 2015 Japan Golf Tour events up to and including the 2015 Japan Golf Tour Championship

22. The Senior Open Champion for 2014

23. The Amateur Champion for 2015

24. The U.S. Amateur Champion for 2014

25. The European Amateur Champion for 2014

26. The Mark H. McCormack Medal winner for 2014

Open Qualifying Series

The Open Qualifying Series (OQS) consisted of 10 events from the six major tours. Places were available to the leading players (not otherwise exempt) who finished in the top n and ties. In the event of ties, positions went to players ranked highest according to that week's OWGR. [13]

LocationTournamentDateSpotsTopQualifiers
Australia Emirates Australian Open 30 Nov310 Greg Chalmers (17), Rod Pampling, Brett Rumford
Thailand Thailand Golf Championship 14 Dec412 Marcus Fraser, Scott Hend, Anirban Lahiri (5), Jonathan Moore
Africa Joburg Open 1 Mar310 David Howell, Andy Sullivan, Anthony Wall
Japan Mizuno Open 31 May412 Scott Strange, Tadahiro Takayama, Taichi Teshima, Shinji Tomimura
Ireland The Irish Open 31 May310 Tyrrell Hatton, Søren Kjeldsen, Eddie Pepperell
USA Travelers Championship 28 Jun412 Graham DeLaet, Luke Donald, Brian Harman, Carl Pettersson
France Alstom Open de France 5 Jul310 Rafa Cabrera-Bello, James Morrison, Jaco van Zyl
USA Greenbrier Classic 5 Jul412 James Hahn, David Hearn, Danny Lee, Greg Owen
Scotland Scottish Open 12 Jul310 Daniel Brooks, Raphaël Jacquelin, Rikard Karlberg
USA John Deere Classic 12 Jul15 Tom Gillis

Final Qualifying

The Final Qualifying events were played on 30 June at four courses covering Scotland and the North-West, Central and South-coast regions of England. Three qualifying places were available at each location. [14]

LocationQualifiers [lower-alpha 3] [lower-alpha 4]
Gailes Links Ryan Fox, Paul Kinnear (a, R), Mark Young (R)
Hillside Scott Arnold, Pelle Edberg, Jordan Niebrugge (a)
Royal Cinque Ports Alister Balcombe (a, R), Gary Boyd, Ben Taylor (a, R)
Woburn Robert Dinwiddie, Paul Dunne (a), Retief Goosen

Alternates

To make up the full field of 156, additional places were allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking at the time that these places were made available by the Championship Committee. Any places made available after the 5 July 2015 used the week 27 rankings. [7]

From the Week 26 (week ending 29 June) Official World Golf Ranking: [15]

From the Week 27 (week ending 5 July) Official World Golf Ranking:

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Dustin Johnson posted a seven-under-par 65 on day one to lead by one shot from a group of six golfers. [17] [18] Jordan Spieth was two shots off the lead after carding a 67. [19] [20]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Flag of the United States.svg Dustin Johnson 65−7
T2 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Day 66−6
Flag of South Africa.svg Retief Goosen
Flag of the United States.svg Zach Johnson
Flag of Scotland.svg Paul Lawrie
Flag of the United States.svg Robert Streb
Flag of England.svg Danny Willett
T8 Flag of the United States.svg Kevin Na 67−5
Flag of the United States.svg Jordan Niebrugge (a)
Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Oosthuizen
Flag of South Africa.svg Charl Schwartzel
Flag of the United States.svg Jordan Spieth

*The last group completed play at approximately 9:36 pm. BST (UTC+1)

Second round

Friday and Saturday, 17–18 July 2015

The first group teed-off at 6:32 am BST on Friday, but heavy rain caused localised flooding and play was suspended at 6:46 am. Restarted at 10 am; later tee times were delayed over three hours . The tee time for the 52nd and last group was delayed from the original 4:13 pm to 7:27 pm. The second round was not completed on Friday and 42 players returned early Saturday to finish their rounds. [21] [22] [23]

Dustin Johnson was the overnight leader on 10-under-par after 13 holes, a stroke ahead of Danny Willett. [24] The day marked the final Open appearance of five-time champion Tom Watson at age 65. [25]

Play resumed on Saturday at 7 am, with the third round due to start at 11 am. However, play was soon suspended at 7:32 am because a strong wind was moving stationary balls on some of the greens. Because it was a non-dangerous situation, players were allowed to complete the hole they were playing. Dustin Johnson had bogeyed the 14th to move back to 9-under-par, tied for the lead with Willett.

After a delay of several hours, it was decided that only the remainder of the second round would be competed on Saturday, with the third round scheduled for Sunday and the fourth round for Monday. Play finally resumed at 6 pm, a 10½ hour delay, and was completed after 9 pm. The 36-hole cut was at even par 144 and eighty players advanced to the third round.

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Flag of the United States.svg Dustin Johnson 65-69=134−10
2 Flag of England.svg Danny Willett 66-69=135−9
3 Flag of Scotland.svg Paul Lawrie 66-70=136−8
T4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Day 66-71=137−7
Flag of the United States.svg Zach Johnson 66-71=137
Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Oosthuizen 67-70=137
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Adam Scott 70-67=137
Flag of the United States.svg Robert Streb 66-71=137
Flag of Scotland.svg Marc Warren 68-69=137
T10 Flag of England.svg Luke Donald 68-70=138−6
Flag of Ireland.svg Paul Dunne (a)69-69=138
Flag of South Africa.svg Retief Goosen 66-72=138
Flag of Japan.svg Hideki Matsuyama 72-66=138

*The last group completed play Saturday at approximately 9:19 pm.

Amateurs: Dunne (−6), Niebrugge (−4), Langasque (−3), Schniederjans (−2), Chesters (−1), Kinnear (+2), Yang (+6), Balcombe (+6), Taylor (+11)

Third round

Sunday, 19 July 2015

Amateur Paul Dunne was in a share of the lead after the third round along with Louis Oosthuizen and Jason Day. [26] No amateur had led the Open after three rounds since 1927. [27]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
T1 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Day 66-71-67=204−12
Flag of Ireland.svg Paul Dunne (a)69-69-66=204
Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Oosthuizen 67-70-67=204
4 Flag of the United States.svg Jordan Spieth 67-72-66=205−11
5 Flag of Ireland.svg Pádraig Harrington 72-69-65=206−10
T6 Flag of Spain.svg Sergio García 70-69-68=207−9
Flag of South Africa.svg Retief Goosen 66-72-69=207
Flag of the United States.svg Zach Johnson 66-71-70=207
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Marc Leishman 70-73-64=207
Flag of the United States.svg Jordan Niebrugge (a)67-73-67=207
Flag of England.svg Justin Rose 71-68-68=207
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Adam Scott 70-67-70=207
Flag of the United States.svg Robert Streb 66-71-70=207
Flag of England.svg Danny Willett 66-69-72=207

*The last group completed play Sunday at approximately 7:04 pm.

Amateurs: Dunne (−12), Niebrugge (−9), Chesters (−6), Schniederjans (−4), Langasque (−4)

Final round

Monday, 20 July 2015

Marc Leishman carded a 66 in the final round to have the lead in the clubhouse at −15 while the final pairings were beginning their back nine. Zach Johnson then birdied the 18th to also card a 66 and tie the clubhouse lead with Leishman. The second to last group of the round were Jason Day and Jordan Spieth. Day and Spieth both headed to the par-4 16th at −14, one shot back of Leishman and Johnson. Spieth hit a difficult putt to birdie to get to -15, while Day parred. On the famous par-4 17th "Road Hole," an errant approach shot by Spieth resulted in a bogey and he was back at −14. Day was unable to convert a difficult birdie putt and remained at −14 as well. At the 18th, Spieth's approach shot was short, in the "Valley of Sin" below the green; he almost holed the chip for birdie, but settled for par and 274 (−14). Day was left with a 15-foot (4.5 m) birdie putt to join the playoff, but could not convert and also ended a stroke back at 274.

The final pairing was Louis Oosthuizen and amateur Paul Dunne, who was at even par 36 out, but was four-over on the next four holes, fell out of contention, and tied for thirtieth place. [28] Oosthuizen played a solid round and needed a birdie at 18 to get into the playoff with Leishman and Johnson. His approach shot left him with a 10-foot (3 m) birdie putt, which he sunk. The Open Championship's rules dictated there would be a four-hole aggregate score playoff between Johnson, Leishman, and Oosthuizen. Johnson took the early lead on the first and never looked back, winning by a stroke over Oosthuizen. [29] [30] The win was Johnson's second major championship victory; he won the Masters eight years earlier in 2007. [31]

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Medal winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (£)
T1 Flag of the United States.svg Zach Johnson 66-71-70-66=273−15Playoff
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Marc Leishman 70-73-64-66=273
Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Oosthuizen (c)67-70-67-69=273
T4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Day 66-71-67-70=274−14295,000
Flag of the United States.svg Jordan Spieth 67-72-66-69=274
T6 Flag of Spain.svg Sergio García 70-69-68-70=277−11196,000
Flag of the United States.svg Jordan Niebrugge (a)67-73-67-70=2770
Flag of England.svg Justin Rose 71-68-68-70=277196,000
Flag of England.svg Danny Willett 66-69-72-70=277
T10 Flag of the United States.svg Brooks Koepka 71-70-69-68=278−10138,500
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Adam Scott 70-67-70-71=278

Source: [28]

Scorecard

Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par444454434434454444
Flag of the United States.svg Johnson−9−10−10−11−12−12−13−13−14−15−15−16−15−15−15−15−14−15
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leishman−10−10−11−12−13−13−13−13−14−15−15−16−16−16−16−15−15−15
Flag of South Africa.svg Oosthuizen−13−13−13−13−13−14−14−13−14−14−14−15−14−14−14−14−14−15
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Day−12−12−12−12−13−14−14−14−14−14−14−14−14−14−14−14−14−14
Flag of the United States.svg Spieth−12−12−12−12−13−14−14−12−13−14−14−14−14−14−14−15−14−14
Flag of Spain.svg García−10−10−11−11−12−12−13−13−13−14−14−13−12−12−12−12−11−11
Flag of the United States.svg Niebrugge−9−9−9−10−11−12−12−12−12−12−12−12−12−13−12−12−11−11
Flag of England.svg Rose−9−9−9−9−10−10−10−10−10−10−10−11−10−10−10−10−10−11
Flag of England.svg Willett−10−10−10−9−9−9−9−8−8−8−9−10−11−12−12−12−11−11
Flag of Ireland.svg Harrington−11−12−12−12−13−11−11−10−10−10−11−11−11−10−9−10−8−7
Flag of Ireland.svg Dunne−11−10−11−11−12−12−12−12−12−11−11−10−8−8−8−8−7−6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

BirdieBogeyDouble bogey

Source: [28]

Playoff

This was the ninth four-hole playoff at the Open Championship, first used in 1989. The last playoff at St Andrews was twenty years earlier in 1995.

Johnson and Oosthuizen birdied the first while Leishman bogeyed; Johnson birdied the second and then the routing switched over to the Road Hole (#17), which all three bogeyed. All three made par at 18 and Johnson won the Claret Jug by a stroke.

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (£)
1 Flag of the United States.svg Zach Johnson 3-3-5-4=15−11,150,000
T2 Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Oosthuizen 3-4-5-4=16E536,500
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Marc Leishman 5-4-5-4=18+2

Scorecard

Hole  1    2   17  18 
Par4444
Flag of the United States.svg Johnson−1−2−1−1
Flag of South Africa.svg Oosthuizen−1−1EE
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leishman+1+1+2+2

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par
Source: [28]

Notes

  1. ↑ Category 3 was extended from 2010 back to 2009 to enable Watson to make a final Open appearance at St Andrews [10]
  2. 1 2 Lahiri and Chalmers had already qualified through the Open Qualifying Series prior to meeting exemption criteria.
  3. ↑ (a) – indicates the player was an amateur.
  4. ↑ (R) – indicates a golfer who came through Regional Qualifying.
  5. ↑ Knox replaced Rory McIlroy. [9]
  6. ↑ Streelman replaced Chris Kirk. [11]
  7. ↑ Iwata replaced Alex Norén. [12]
  8. ↑ Ramsay replaced Tim Clark. [16]

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