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2002 Open Championship

Field	Value
name	2002 Open Championship
dates	18–21 July 2002
location	Gullane, Scotland
course	Muirfield Golf Links
tour	European Tour
PGA Tour
Japan Golf Tour
par	71
yardage	7034 yd
field	156 players, 83 after cut
cut	144 (+2)
purse	£3,800,000
€5,947,076
$6,004,760
winners_share	£700,000
€1,095,514
$1,106,140
champion	ZAF Ernie Els
score	278 (−6), playoff
previous	[2001](2001-open-championship)
next	[2003](2003-open-championship)

PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour €5,947,076 $6,004,760 €1,095,514 $1,106,140 |UK Scotland The 2002 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 131st Open Championship, held from 18 to 21 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Ernie Els won his first Claret Jug and third major title in a playoff over Stuart Appleby, Steve Elkington, and ultimately in a sudden-death playoff over Thomas Levet.

Tiger Woods' bid for the Grand Slam came to a halt on Saturday with the worst round of his career up to that time, an 81 (+10) in cold, gusty rain. It took him and others out of contention, but he rebounded on Sunday with a six-under 65 and finished at even par, six strokes back. Woods was the first in thirty years to win the first two legs (Masters, U.S. Open), last done by Jack Nicklaus in 1972. Nicklaus' grand slam bid also ended at Muirfield, runner-up by one stroke to Lee Trevino in 1972. The only one to win the first three was Ben Hogan in 1953. Entering the championship, Woods had won seven of the previous eleven majors.

Course

Main article: Muirfield

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	448	351	378	213	560	468	185	443	508	3,554	475	389	381	191	448	415	186	546	449	3,480	7,034
Par	4	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	36	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	35	71

Source:

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):

Field

;1. Top 15 and ties from the 2001 Open Championship Billy Andrade (4), Alex Čejka, Darren Clarke (4,5,18), David Duval (2,3,4,13,14,18), Ernie Els (4,5,10,14), Niclas Fasth (4,5,18), Sergio García (4,14,18), Retief Goosen (4,5,10), Mikko Ilonen, Raphaël Jacquelin, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (5), Bernhard Langer (4,5,18), Billy Mayfair, Colin Montgomerie (4,5,6,18), Jesper Parnevik (4,18), Loren Roberts, Vijay Singh (4,11,12,14), Des Smyth, Kevin Sutherland (4), Ian Woosnam (5)

;2. Open Champions, 1992–2001 John Daly (3,4), Nick Faldo (3), Paul Lawrie (3,5), Tom Lehman (3,4,14), Justin Leonard (3,4), Greg Norman (3), Mark O'Meara (3,11), Nick Price (3,4), Tiger Woods (3,4,10,11,12,13,14,18)

;3. Past Open Champions aged 65 or under on 21 July 2002 Mark Calcavecchia (4,14,18), Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson

Seve Ballesteros withdrew.
Ian Baker-Finch, Tony Jacklin, Johnny Miller, Jack Nicklaus, Bill Rogers, Lee Trevino, and Tom Weiskopf did not enter.

;4. The first 50 players on the OWGR on 30 May 2002 Robert Allenby (14), Thomas Bjørn (5,18), Ángel Cabrera (5), Michael Campbell (5), Stewart Cink (18), José Cóceres, John Cook, Chris DiMarco (14), Bob Estes (14), Brad Faxon (14), Jim Furyk (14,18), Pádraig Harrington (5,18), Dudley Hart, Scott Hoch (14,18), Toshimitsu Izawa (23), Shingo Katayama (23), Jerry Kelly, Matt Kuchar, Davis Love III (12,14,18), Shigeki Maruyama, Len Mattiace, Scott McCarron, Paul McGinley (5,18), Rocco Mediate, Phil Mickelson (14,18), José María Olazábal (11), Adam Scott (5), David Toms (12,14,18), Scott Verplank (14,18,19), Mike Weir (14)

Paul Azinger (18) and Kenny Perry did not play.

;5. Top 20 in the final 2001 European Tour Order of Merit Mathias Grönberg, David Howell, Robert Karlsson, Thomas Levet, Peter O'Malley (22)

;6. The Volvo PGA Championship winners for 1999–2002 Anders Hansen, Andrew Oldcorn

;7. First 5 players, not exempt, in the top 20 of the 2002 European Tour Order of Merit as of 30 May Barry Lane, Malcolm MacKenzie, Greg Owen, Carl Pettersson, Eduardo Romero

;8. First 7 European Tour members, not exempt, in the top 25 of a cumulative money list taken from all official European Tour events from the 2002 Volvo PGA Championship up to and including the 2002 Scottish Open Roger Chapman, Bradley Dredge, Gary Evans, Darren Fichardt, Søren Hansen, Freddie Jacobson, Ian Poulter

;9. The leading 8 players, not exempt having applied (8) above, in the 2002 Scottish Open Warren Bennett, John Bickerton, Paul Casey, Marc Farry, Ricardo González, Stephen Leaney, Jean-François Remésy, Jamie Spence

;10. The U.S. Open Champions for 1993–2002 Lee Janzen, Steve Jones, Corey Pavin

;11. The Masters Champions for 1998–2002

;12. The PGA Champions for 1997–2001

;13. The Players Champions for 1999–2002 Craig Perks, Hal Sutton (18)

;14. Top 20 in the final 2001 PGA Tour Official Money List Joe Durant, Frank Lickliter

;15. First 5 players, not exempt, in the top 20 of the 2002 PGA Tour Official Money List as of 30 May K. J. Choi

;16. First 7 PGA Tour members, not exempt, in the top 25 of a cumulative money list taken from the 2002 Players Championship and the five PGA Tour events leading up to and including the 2002 Western Open Stephen Ames, Jim Carter, Jonathan Kaye, Peter Lonard, Jeff Maggert, Tim Petrovic, Chris Smith

;17. The leading 8 players, not exempt having applied (16) above, in the 2002 Western Open Stuart Appleby, Neal Lancaster, John Riegger, Chris Riley, Steve Stricker, Bob Tway, Duffy Waldorf

Brandt Jobe did not play.

;18. Players selected to the 2001 Ryder Cup teams Pierre Fulke, Phillip Price, Lee Westwood

;19. The 2001 Canadian Open Champion

;20. The 2001 Japan Open Champion Taichi Teshima

;21. Winner of the 2001 Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit Thongchai Jaidee

;22. Top 3 from the 2001–02 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit as of 30 May Scott Laycock, Craig Parry

;23. Top 3 from the 2001 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit Dean Wilson

;24. Top 2 from the 2001–02 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit Tim Clark, Justin Rose

;25. The leading player, not exempt, in the 2002 Mizuno Open Kiyoshi Miyazato

;26. First 4, not exempt having applied (25) above, in the top 20 of a cumulative money list taken from all official Japan Golf Tour events from the 2002 Japan PGA Championship up to and including the 2002 Mizuno Open Kenichi Kuboya, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Toru Suzuki, Toru Taniguchi

;27. The 2001 Senior British Open Champion Ian Stanley

;28. The 2002 Amateur Champion Alejandro Larrazábal (a)

;29. The 2001 U.S. Amateur Champion

Bubba Dickerson forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

;30. The 2001 European Amateur Champion

Stephen Browne forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

;Final Qualifying (Sunday 14 July and Monday 15 July) :Dunbar – Luke Donald, Mattias Eliasson, Steve Elkington, Ian Garbutt, Patrik Sjöland, Esteban Toledo, Simon Young (a) :Gullane No. 1 – Fredrik Andersson, Gary Emerson, Richard Green, James Kingston, Adam Mednick, Raymond Russell, John Senden :Luffness New – Peter Baker, Benn Barham, Andrew Coltart, Paul Eales, John Kemp (a), Jarrod Moseley, Magnus Persson Atlevi :North Berwick – Matthew Cort, Scott Henderson, Trevor Immelman, Paul Mayoh, David Park, Roger Wessels, Tom Whitehouse

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 18 July 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	SWE Carl Pettersson	67	−4
USA David Toms
USA Duffy Waldorf
T4	TTO Stephen Ames	68	−3
DEN Thomas Bjørn
DEN Søren Hansen
USA Steve Jones
SCO Sandy Lyle
JPN Shigeki Maruyama
USA Len Mattiace
USA Phil Mickelson
ZIM Nick Price
FRA Jean-François Remésy
ENG Justin Rose
IRL Des Smyth

Second round

Friday, 19 July 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	ZAF Ernie Els	70-66=136	−6
IRL Pádraig Harrington	69-67=136
JPN Shigeki Maruyama	68-68=136
USA Bob Tway	70-66=136
USA Duffy Waldorf	67-69=136
T6	DEN Søren Hansen	68-69=137	−5
SWE Carl Pettersson	67-70=137
IRL Des Smyth	68-69=137
T9	TTO Stephen Ames	68-70=138	−4
DEN Thomas Bjørn	68-70=138
FRA Thomas Levet	72-66=138
SCO Colin Montgomerie	74-64=138
USA Mark O'Meara	69-69=138
ENG Ian Poulter	69-69=138
ZIM Nick Price	68-70=138
USA Tiger Woods	70-68=138

Amateurs: Young (+5), Kemp (+6), Larrazábal (+10).

Third round

Saturday, 20 July 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	ZAF Ernie Els	70-66-72=208	−5
2	DEN Søren Hansen	68-69-73=210	−3
T3	DEN Thomas Bjørn	68-70-73=211	−2
ESP Sergio García	71-69-71=211
USA Justin Leonard	71-72-68=211
JPN Shigeki Maruyama	68-68-75=211
USA Scott McCarron	71-68-72=211
ENG Justin Rose	68-75-68=211
IRL Des Smyth	68-69-74=211
T10	AUS Steve Elkington	71-73-68=212	−1
IRL Pádraig Harrington	69-67-76=212
FRA Thomas Levet	72-66-74=212
AUS Peter Lonard	72-72-68=212

Final round

Sunday, 21 July 2002

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
T1	RSA Ernie Els	70-66-72-70=278	−6	Playoff
FRA Thomas Levet	72-66-74-66=278
AUS Stuart Appleby	73-70-70-65=278
AUS Steve Elkington	71-73-68-66=278
T5	ENG Gary Evans	72-68-74-65=279	−5	140,000
IRL Pádraig Harrington	69-67-76-67=279
JPN Shigeki Maruyama	68-68-75-68=279
T8	DEN Thomas Bjørn	68-70-73-69=280	−4	77,500
ESP Sergio García	71-69-71-69=280
RSA Retief Goosen	71-68-74-67=280
DEN Søren Hansen	68-69-73-70=280
USA Scott Hoch	74-69-71-66=280
AUS Peter O'Malley	72-68-75-65=280

Source:

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4
RSA Els	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−8	−8	−7	−7	−5	−6	−6
FRA Levet	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−6	−6
AUS Appleby	E	E	E	+1	E	E	E	E	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−5	−6
AUS Elkington	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6
ENG Evans	+2	+1	E	E	−1	−2	−3	−4	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5
IRL Harrington	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−5
JPN Maruyama	−1	−2	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−6	−5	−5	−4	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Source:

Playoff

The four-hole aggregate playoff was contested over holes 1, 16, 17, & 18; Levet and Elkington went off in the first pair and Els and Appleby in the last. After a 50 ft birdie putt on the second hole (#16, par 3), Levet led by a stroke, but bogeyed the last to tie Els at even-par. Appleby and Elkington also bogeyed the last hole and were eliminated by a stroke. At the first hole (#18) of sudden death, Levet put his tee shot in a fairway bunker and bogeyed. Els saved par from a greenside bunker with a five-foot (1.6 m) putt to win the title. Through 2025, this is the only four-man playoff in Open Championship history, and no other current major championship has had a four-way playoff.

Place	Player	Four-hole	Sudden-death	Money (£)	Score	To par
1	RSA Ernie Els	4-3-5-4=16	E	4	E	700,000
T2	FRA Thomas Levet	4-2-5-5=16	5	+1	286,667
AUS Stuart Appleby	4-4-4-5=17	+1
AUS Steve Elkington	5-3-4-5=17

Scorecard

Hole	1	16	17	18
Par	4	3	5	4
RSA Els	E	E	E	E
FRA Levet	E	−1	−1	E
AUS Appleby	E	+1	E	+1
AUS Elkington	+1	+1	E	+1
Sudden-death
RSA Els		E
FRA Levet	+1

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par

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