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1869 Open Championship

Field	Value
name	1869 Open Championship
dates	16 September 1869
location	Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland
course	Prestwick Golf Club
field	14 players
purse	£12
winners_share	£6
champion	SCO Young Tom Morris
score	157
previous	1868
next	1870

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The 1869 Open Championship was the tenth Open Championship and was held on 16 September at Prestwick Golf Club. Young Tom Morris won the championship for the second successive time, by 11 strokes from Bob Kirk. Just 14 players entered the Championship.

Young Tom Morris dominated the championship, leading by three strokes after the first round, four after second and eventually winning by 11 strokes. After the first round Davie Strath and Bob Kirk were both three shots behind Morris. Strath was in second place after two rounds but finished with a 60 to finish third behind Kirk who scored 57.

Morris's first round included a hole-in-one at the 8th hole and his total of 50 (6-4-4-6-5-5-3-1-6-3-3-4) was only one behind his record of the previous year. In the second round Kirk took four strokes in one bunker (the "Alps"), scoring 10, while in the last round he took three shots in another (the "Cardinal's Nob"). He had four twos over the three rounds.

Final leaderboard

Source:

Thursday, 16 September 1869

Place	Player	Score	Money
1	SCO Young Tom Morris	50-55-52=157	£6
2	SCO Bob Kirk	53-58-57=168	£4
3	SCO Davie Strath	53-56-60=169	£2
4	SCO Jamie Anderson	60-56-57=173
5	SCO William Doleman (a)	60-56-59=175
6	SCO Tom Morris Sr.	56-62-58=176
7	SCO Gilbert Mitchell-Innes (a)	64-58-58=180
8	SCO Tom Dunn	62-61-59=182
9	SCO Charlie Hunter	62-61-64=187

The remaining five players withdrew and did not complete the 36 holes.

References

(23 September 1869). "Autumn Meeting of the Prestwick Golf Club - The match for the Championship". Fife Herald.

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