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1983 Open Championship

Field	Value
name	1983 Open Championship
dates	14–17 July 1983
location	Southport, England
course	Royal Birkdale Golf Club
tour	European Tour
PGA Tour
par	71
yardage	6968 yd
field	151 players
83 after 1st cut
63 after 2nd cut
cut	146 (+4) (1st cut)
217 (+4) (2nd cut)
purse	£400,000
$600,000
winners_share	£40,000
$60,000
champion	USA Tom Watson
score	275 (−9)
previous	[1982](1982-open-championship)
next	[1984](1984-open-championship)

PGA Tour 83 after 1st cut 63 after 2nd cut 217 (+4) (2nd cut) $600,000 $60,000 |UK England |United Kingdom Southport north of Liverpool, England The 1983 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 112th Open Championship, held from 14 to 17 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. It was the sixth time the course had hosted, with the first in 1954.

Defending champion Tom Watson won his fifth Open Championship, one stroke ahead of runners-up Andy Bean and Hale Irwin. It was his second consecutive Open win and third in the last four, but was helped by Irwin "whiffing" a one-inch putt on the 14th hole on the third day, which cost him a chance of a play-off with Watson for the tournament.

At age 33, this was Watson's eighth and final major title; he had won three of the last six majors, but had not won any event for twelve months.

Watson was the fifth to win five Open Championships, last accomplished in 1965 by Peter Thomson, also at Royal Birkdale. He was the first to successfully defend the title in over a decade, since Lee Trevino in 1972 at Muirfield.

Seven years earlier at Royal Birkdale in 1976, defending champion Watson posted an 80 in the third round, finishing with a pair of sixes, and missed the 54-hole cut by a stroke.

Course layout

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total	Par	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	34	4	4	3	5	3	5	4	5	4	37	71
Yards	450	423	410	206	343	468	150	470	410	3,330	384	411	184	505	198	542	415	526	473	3,638	6,968

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 14 July 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Craig Stadler	64	−7
T2	FRG Bernhard Langer	67	−4
USA Bill Rogers
USA Tom Watson
T5	ENG Nick Faldo	68	−3
AUS Mike Ferguson
AUS Vaughan Somers
USA Hal Sutton
SCO Sam Torrance
T10	IRL Eamonn Darcy	69	−2
ENG David Dunk
USA Hubert Green
AUS Graham Marsh
WAL Philip Parkin (a)
USA Lee Trevino

Source:

Second round

Friday, 15 July 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Craig Stadler	64-70=134	−8
T2	USA Lee Trevino	69-66=135	−7
USA Tom Watson	67-68=135
4	ENG Nick Faldo	68-68=136	−6
5	USA Hale Irwin	69-68=137	−5
T6	USA Raymond Floyd	72-66=138	−4
AUS Terry Gale	72-66=138
USA Bill Rogers	67-71=138
T9	USA Andy Bean	70-69=139	−3
ENG Denis Durnian	73-66=139
FRG Bernhard Langer	67-72=139
AUS Graham Marsh	69-70=139
USA Hal Sutton	68-71=139

Source:

Amateurs: Parkin (+5), Gilford (+7), Plaxton (+12), Thompson (+12), Wood (+12), Hamer (+13), Thomas (+13), Crosby (+17).

Third round

Saturday, 16 July 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Tom Watson	67-68-70=205	−8
2	USA Craig Stadler	64-70-72=206	−7
T3	ENG Nick Faldo	68-68-71=207	−6
USA Raymond Floyd	72-66-69=207
AUS David Graham	71-69-67=207
6	USA Lee Trevino	69-66-73=208	−5
T7	USA Andy Bean	70-69-70=209	−4
USA Hale Irwin	69-68-72=209
ZWE Mark McNulty	72-69-68=209
USA Fuzzy Zoeller	71-71-67=209

Source:{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1983/07/17/page/37/article/golf

Final round

Sunday, 17 July 1983

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	USA Tom Watson	67-68-70-70=275	−9	40,000
T2	USA Andy Bean	70-69-70-67=276	−8	23,000
USA Hale Irwin	69-68-72-67=276
4	AUS Graham Marsh	69-70-74-64=277	−7	15,000
5	USA Lee Trevino	69-66-73-70=278	−6	13,600
T6	ESP Seve Ballesteros	71-71-69-68=279	−5	12,250
ZAF Harold Henning	71-69-70-69=279
T8	ENG Denis Durnian	73-66-74-67=280	−4	9,625
ENG Nick Faldo	68-68-71-73=280
IRL Christy O'Connor Jnr	72-69-71-68=280
USA Bill Rogers	67-71-73-69=280

Source:

The exchange rate at the time was approximately 1.52 dollars (US) per pound sterling.

References

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(15 July 1983). "Stadler's 64 puts him 3-up in British Open". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
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(July 1983). "British Pound / US Dollar Historical Reference Rates from Bank of England for 1983". PoundSterling.

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