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1998 Open Championship

Field	Value
name	1998 Open Championship
dates	16–19 July 1998
location	Southport, England
course	Royal Birkdale Golf Club
tour	European Tour
PGA Tour
Japan Golf Tour
par	70
yardage	7018 yd
field	156 players, 81 after cut
cut	146 (+6)
purse	£1,700,000
€2,483,810
$2,750,000
winners_share	£300,000
€420,000
$493,500
champion	USA Mark O'Meara
score	280 (E), playoff
previous	[1997](1997-open-championship)
next	[1999](1999-open-championship)

PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour €2,483,810 $2,750,000 €420,000 $493,500 |UK England |United Kingdom Southport north of Liverpool, England The 1998 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 127th Open Championship, held from 16 to 19 July at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. In weekend wind and rain, Mark O'Meara won his second major championship of the year and first Open Championship in a playoff over Brian Watts, the 54-hole leader.

Three months earlier, O'Meara won the Masters on the final green by sinking a 20 ft birdie putt. At age 41, he became the oldest player to win two majors in a year: Jack Nicklaus (1980), Ben Hogan (1953), and Craig Wood (1941) were all age forty. (Hogan won three majors and turned 41 two weeks after the third.)

At the previous Open at Royal Birkdale seven years earlier in 1991, O'Meara was a co-leader after 54 holes, shot 69, and tied for third.

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	449	421	407	203	344	480	177	457	411	3,349	403	408	183	498	198	544	416	547	472	3,669	7,018
Par	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	34	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	5	4	36	70

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Lengths of the course for previous Opens:

1991: 6940 yd, par 70
1983: 6968 yd, par 71
1976: 7001 yd, par 72
1971: 7080 yd, par 73
1965: 7037 yd, par 73
1961: 6844 yd
1954: 6867 yd

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 16 July 1998

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	USA John Huston	65	−5
USA Tiger Woods
T3	USA Fred Couples	66	−4
ZWE Nick Price
USA Loren Roberts
T6	AUS Robert Allenby	67	−3
USA Brad Faxon
SWE Freddie Jacobson
USA Davis Love III
FIJ Vijay Singh

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Second round

Friday, 17 July 1998

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Brian Watts	68-69=137	−3
T2	ZWE Nick Price	66-72=138	−2
ENG Justin Rose (a)	72-66=138
USA Tiger Woods	65-73=138
5	DEN Thomas Bjørn	68-71=139	−1
T6	TRI Stephen Ames	68-72=140	E
USA Fred Couples	66-74=140
USA Jim Furyk	70-70=140
USA Davis Love III	67-73=140
USA Mark O'Meara	72-68=140
SWE Jesper Parnevik	68-72=140

Source:

Amateurs: Rose (-2), García (+4), De Vooght (+6), McCarthy (+8), Kuchar (+10).

Third round

Saturday, 18 July 1998

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Brian Watts	68-69-73=210	E
T2	USA Jim Furyk	70-70-72=212	+2
USA Mark O'Meara	72-68-72=212
SWE Jesper Parnevik	68-72-72=212
5	ENG Justin Rose (a)	72-66-75=213	+3
T6	DEN Thomas Bjørn	68-71-76=215	+5
USA Brad Faxon	67-74-74=215
USA John Huston	65-77-73=215
USA Tiger Woods	65-73-77=215
T10	USA David Duval	70-71-75=216	+6
ITA Costantino Rocca	72-74-70=216
SCO Raymond Russell	68-73-75=216
JPN Katsuyoshi Tomori	75-71-70=216

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Final round

Sunday, 19 July 1998

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
T1	USA Mark O'Meara	72-68-72-68=280	E	Playoff
USA Brian Watts	68-69-73-70=280
3	USA Tiger Woods	65-73-77-66=281	+1	135,000
T4	USA Jim Furyk	70-70-72-70=282	+2	76,667
SWE Jesper Parnevik	68-72-72-70=282
ENG Justin Rose (a)	72-66-75-69=282	0
SCO Raymond Russell	68-73-75-66=282	76,667
8	USA Davis Love III	67-73-77-68=285	+5	49,500
T9	DEN Thomas Bjørn	68-71-76-71=286	+6	40,850
ITA Costantino Rocca	72-74-70-70=286

Sources:

Amateurs: Rose (+2), García (+12), De Vooght (+19).

Playoff

The four-hole aggregate playoff was played on the concluding holes (15–18). O'Meara birdied the first, while Watts parred, and they halved the next two holes with pars. Watts bogeyed the final hole, while O'Meara parred to win the playoff by two strokes and the Claret Jug.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	USA Mark O'Meara	4-4-5-4=17	−1	300,000
2	USA Brian Watts	5-4-5-5=19	+1	188,000

Four-hole aggregate playoff on holes 15–18

Scorecard

Hole	15	16	17	18
Par	5	4	5	4
USA O'Meara	−1	−1	−1	−1
USA Watts	E	E	E	+1

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par

Double Eagle --		Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey		Triple bogey+ --

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References

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