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1965 Open Championship

Field	Value
name	1965 Open Championship
location	Southport, England
course	Royal Birkdale Golf Club
dates	7–9 July 1965
tour
par	73
yardage	7037 yd
field	130 players, 50 after cut
cut	149 (+3)
purse	£10,000
$28,000
winners_share	£1,750
$4,900
champion	AUS Peter Thomson
score	285 (−7)
previous	[1964](1964-open-championship)
next	[1966](1966-open-championship)

$28,000 $4,900 |UK England |United Kingdom Southport north of Liverpool, England The 1965 Open Championship was the 94th Open Championship, played 7–9 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Peter Thomson won his fifth Claret Jug, two strokes ahead of runners-up Brian Huggett and Christy O'Connor Snr. Thomson's previous Open victory was seven years earlier in 1958.

The 1965 Open was the last to conclude with two rounds on Friday. Beginning in 1966, the final round was moved from Friday afternoon to Saturday. The Open used this schedule until 1980, when the first round moved to Thursday with the final round on Sunday, the same as the other three majors.

Field

The exemption categories were:

1. The first 20 and those tying for 20th place in the 1964 Open

2. The first 30 and those tying for 30th place in the P.G.A. Order of Merit for 1964

3. The last 10 Open champions (1955–64)

4. The last 5 Amateur champions (1960–64)

5. The last 10 U.S. Open champions (1955–64)

6. The last 5 U.S. Amateur champions (1960–64)

7. The first 30 money winners and those tying for 30th place in the U.S.P.G.A. official list for one year ending with the P.G.A. tournament immediately before the closing date of the U.S. Open entries

8. Members of the 1964 Great Britain and Ireland Eisenhower Cup team

9. Senior professional champions of Great Britain and the United States

Charlie Ward, Sam Snead

10. The 1965 U.S. Open champion

The U.S. Open took place after the final date for entries. The winner, Gary Player, was already exempt.

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Qualification took place on 2–3 July at Hillside and Southport and Ainsdale. They were run as two separate events with 41 players to qualify from Hillside, 40 from Southport and Ainsdale, together with 49 exemptions to make a total field of 130. Clive Clark was later added to field after William C. Campbell failed to arrive. M.E. Hill also played after Frank Phillips withdrew.

Prize money

The total prize money was increased from £8,500 to £10,000. The winner's share was increased to £1,750 with £1,250 for second, £1,000 for third, £750 for fourth, £600 for fifth, £450 for sixth, £375 for seventh.

Course

Main article: Royal Birkdale 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	493	427	416	212	320	468	158	459	410	3,363	393	412	190	517	202	536	401	510	513	3,674	7,037
Par	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	35	4	4	3	5	3	5	4	5	5	38	73

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Lengths of the course for previous Opens:

1961: 6844 yd
1954: 6867 yd

Round summaries

First round

Wednesday, 7 July 1965

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Tony Lema	68	−5
2	IRL Christy O'Connor Snr	69	−4
T3	IRL Joe Carr (a)	70	−3
USA Arnold Palmer
5	AUS Bruce Devlin	71	−2
T6	ENG Brian Bamford	72	−1
SCO Eric Brown
IRL Christy Greene
ENG Ronnie Mandeville
SCO Jim McAlister
ESP Sebastián Miguel
ENG Lionel Platts
ENG Doug Sewell
ENG Guy Wolstenholme

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Second round

Thursday, 8 July 1965

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	AUS Bruce Devlin	71-69=140	−6
USA Tony Lema	68-72=140
T3	WAL Brian Huggett	73-68=141	−5
USA Arnold Palmer	70-71=141
T5	IRL Hugh Boyle	73-69=142	−4
SCO Eric Brown	72-70=142
IRL Joe Carr (a)	70-72=142
IRL Christy O'Connor Snr	69-73=142
AUS Peter Thomson	74-68=142
10	ARG Roberto De Vicenzo	74-69=143	−3

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Amateurs: Carr (-4), Bonallack (+1), Burgess (+1), Clark (+4), Hadlock (+6), Shade (+6), Foster (+7), Marsh (+7), Glover (+8), Birtwell (+9), Richards (+15), Marks (+17), McCandlish (+17)

Third round

Friday, 9 July 1965 - (morning)

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	AUS Peter Thomson	74-68-72=214	−5
T2	AUS Bruce Devlin	71-69-75=215	−4
USA Tony Lema	68-72-75=215
T4	ARG Roberto De Vicenzo	74-69-73=216	−3
IRL Christy O'Connor Snr	69-73-74=216
USA Arnold Palmer	70-71-75=216
T7	WAL Brian Huggett	73-68-76=217	−2
ESP Sebastián Miguel	72-73-72=217
AUS Kel Nagle	74-70-73=217
ENG Lionel Platts	72-72-73=217

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Final round

Friday, 9 July 1965 - (afternoon)

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	AUS Peter Thomson	74-68-72-71=285	−7	1,750
T2		WAL Brian Huggett	73-68-76-70=287	−5	1,125
IRL Christy O'Connor Snr	69-73-74-71=287
4	ARG Roberto De Vicenzo	74-69-73-72=288	−4	750
T5	ENG Bernard Hunt	74-74-70-71=289	−3	475
USA Tony Lema	68-72-75-74=289
AUS Kel Nagle	74-70-73-72=289
T8	AUS Bruce Devlin	71-69-75-75=290	−2	275
ESP Sebastián Miguel	72-73-72-73=290
T10	ENG Max Faulkner	74-72-74-73=293	+1	185
SCO John Panton	74-74-75-70=293

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Amateurs: Burgess (+7), Bonallack (+10), Carr (+10)

References

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Lovesey, John. (19 July 1965). "A man from Down Under laughs it up".
Jacobs, Raymond. (17 December 1964). "Open Championship more valuable - Prize-money up to £10,000". Glasgow Herald.
Jacobs, Raymond. (3 July 1965). "Palmer returns to Birkdale – Practice on altered course". Glasgow Herald.
(7 July 1965). "C.A. Clark plays at Birkdale". Glasgow Herald.
(8 July 1965). "Royal Birkdale card". Glasgow Herald.
Jacobs, Raymond. (9 July 1965). "Devlin shares with Lema". Glasgow Herald.
Jacobs, Raymond. (8 July 1965). "Lema leads in Open with 68". Glasgow Herald.
(9 July 1965). "Devlin, Lema tied in British Open". Chicago Tribune.

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