1988_Open_Championship

1988 Open Championship
	Front cover of the 1988 Open Annual
Tournament information
Dates	14–18 July 1988
Location	Lytham St Annes, England
Course(s)	Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Tour(s)	European Tour; PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	6,857 yards (6,270 m)
Field	153 players, 71 after cut
Cut	148 (+6)
Prize fund	£500,000 ; $750,000
Winner's share	£80,000 ; $136,000
Champion
	Seve Ballesteros
	273 (−11)
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1988 Open Championship

Golf tournament

The 1988 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 117th Open Championship, held from 14 to 18 July at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England. In a first-ever Monday finish, Seve Ballesteros shot a final round 65 to capture his third Open Championship and fifth major title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Nick Price, the 54-hole leader.^[2]

Quick Facts Tournament information, Dates ...

Lytham &
St Annes

Location in England

Scheduled to finish on Sunday, heavy rain on Saturday caused flooding of several greens and the third round was scratched after play was started. Under European Tour rules, if less than half of the players had finished their rounds, the scores for that day were discarded. Since no player had finished, all the scores from Saturday were scrapped. Sunday was briefly scheduled for 36 holes, but due to the flooding, it was decided the course could not be readied in time for the early morning tee times. The third round was played on Sunday and the fourth on Monday, the first time in history the Open's final round finished on a Monday.^[3]^[4]^[5]

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Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	206	437	457	393	212	490	549	394	164	3,302	334	542	198	342	445	463	357	462	412	3,555	6,857
Par	3	4	4	4	3	5	5	4	3	35	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	36	71

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Seve Ballesteros	67	−4
T2	Brad Faxon	69	−2
T2	Wayne Grady	69	−2
T4	Don Pooley	70	−1
	Nick Price
	Noel Ratcliffe
	Peter Senior
T8	Andy Bean	71	E
	Bob Charles
	Howard Clark
	Nick Faldo
	David Frost
	Jay Haas
	Mark James
	Gary Koch
	David J. Russell
	Andrew Sherborne
	Bob Tway

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Nick Price	70-67=137	−5
2	Seve Ballesteros	67-71=138	−4
T3	Nick Faldo	71-69=140	−2
T3	Craig Stadler	72-68=140	−2
5	Andy Bean	71-70=141	−1
T6	Fred Couples	73-69=142	E
	Sandy Lyle	73-69=142
	Bob Tway	71-71=142
T9	Isao Aoki	72-71=143	+1
	Chip Beck	72-71=143
	Howard Clark	71-72=143
	Brad Faxon	69=74=143
	Gary Koch	71-72=143
	Don Pooley	70-73=143
	Wayne Riley	72-71=143
	Eduardo Romero	72-71=143
	Peter Senior	70-73=143
	Andrew Sherborne	71-72=143

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Nick Price	70-67-69=206	−7
T2	Seve Ballesteros	67-71-70=208	−5
T2	Nick Faldo	71-69-68=208	−5
4	Sandy Lyle	73-69-67=209	−4
T5	Andy Bean	71-70-71=212	−1
	Larry Nelson	73-71-68=212
	Don Pooley	70-73-69=212
	Eduardo Romero	72-71-69=212
T9	Fred Couples	73-69-71=213	E
	Brad Faxon	69-74-70=213
	Gary Koch	71-72-70=213
	Peter Senior	70-73-70=213

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	Seve Ballesteros (c)	67-71-70-65=273	−11	80,000
2	Nick Price	70-67-69-69=275	−9	60,000
3	Nick Faldo (c)	71-69-68-71=279	−5	47,000
T4	Fred Couples	73-69-71-68=281	−3	33,500
T4	Gary Koch	71-72-70-68=281	−3	33,500
6	Peter Senior	70-73-70-69=282	−2	27,000
T7	Isao Aoki	72-71-73-67=283	−1	21,000
	David Frost	71-75-69-68=283
	Sandy Lyle (c)	73-69-67-74=283
	Payne Stewart	73-75-68-67=283

1988_Open_Championship

1988 Open Championship

Course layout

Round summaries

First round

Second round

Third round

Final round

Scorecard

References

External links

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Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	3	4	4	4	3	5	5	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	4
Ballesteros	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−8	−9	−9	−10	−11	−10	−11	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11
Price	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9
Faldo	−5	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5

Champion
Silver Medal winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
T11	Brad Faxon	69-74-70-71=284	E	16,500
T11	David J. Russell	71-74-69-70=284	E	16,500
T13	Larry Nelson	73-71-68-74=285	+1	14,000
	Eduardo Romero	72-71-69-74=285
	Curtis Strange	79-69-69-68=285
T16	Andy Bean	71-70-71-74=286	+2	10,500
	Ben Crenshaw	73-73-68-72=286
	Don Pooley	70-73-69-74=286
	José Rivero	75-69-70-73=286
T20	Gordon Brand Jnr	72-76-68-71=287	+3	7,000
	Bob Charles (c)	71-74-69-73=287
	Rodger Davis	76-71-72-68=287
	Tom Kite	75-71-73-68=287
	Bob Tway	71-71-72-73=287
T25	Jack Nicklaus (c)	75-70-75-68=288	+4	5,500
T25	Ian Woosnam	76-71-72-69=288	+4	5,500
27	Mark O'Meara	75-69-75-70=289	+5	5,200
T28	Tommy Armour III	73-72-72-73=290	+6	4,600
	Chip Beck	72-71-74-73=290
	Jim Benepe	75-72-70-73=290
	Howard Clark	71-72-75-72=290
	Mark McNulty	73-73-72-72=290
	Tom Watson (c)	74-72-72-72=290
T34	Wayne Riley	72-71-72-76=291	+7	4,150
T34	Lanny Wadkins	73-71-71-76=291	+7	4,150
T36	Gordon J. Brand	73-74-72-72=292	+8	3,950
T36	José María Olazábal	73-71-73-75=292	+8	3,950
T38	Ken Brown	75-72-75-71=293	+9	3,456
	Wayne Grady	69-76-72-76=293
	Jay Haas	71-76-78-68=293
	Brian Marchbank	73-74-73-73=293
	Graham Marsh	75-73-71-74=293
	Corey Pavin	74-73-71-75=293
	Ronan Rafferty	74-74-71-74=293
	Noel Ratcliffe	70-77-76-70=293
	David A. Russell	72-73-72-76=293
T47	Paul Azinger	72-75-73-74=294	+10	3,050
	Paul Kent	74-70-79-71=294
	Mark McCumber	75-71-72-76=294