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2005 Open Championship

Field	Value
name	2005 Open Championship
dates	14–17 July 2005
location	St Andrews, Scotland
course	Old Course at St Andrews
org	The R&A
tour	European Tour
PGA Tour
Japan Golf Tour
par	72
yardage	7279 yd
field	156 players, 80 after cut
cut	145 (+1)
purse	£4,000,000
€5,860,938
$7,490,400
winners_share	£720,000
€1,047,362
$1,261,285
champion	USA Tiger Woods
score	274 (−14)
previous	[2004](2004-open-championship)
next	[2006](2006-open-championship)

PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour €5,860,938 $7,490,400 €1,047,362 $1,261,285 |UK Scotland |Scotland Fife The 2005 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 134th Open Championship, held from 14 to 17 July at the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland. Tiger Woods led wire-to-wire for his tenth major title, five shots ahead of runner-up Colin Montgomerie. The win was Woods' second Open Championship, both at St. Andrews, and completed his second career grand slam at age 29. The tenth major and second slam were firsts for a player under the age of 30. At age 65, Jack Nicklaus made his final appearance at a major championship.

History of The Open Championship at The Old Course at St Andrews

While winning the Open Championship is a crowning achievement for any golfer, a win at St. Andrews is considered particularly important due to the course's long tradition. Tiger Woods won the Open Championship played at St. Andrews in 2000 with a tournament to par record of 19-under par. Other past winners at St. Andrews include John Daly, Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Nicklaus (twice), Tony Lema, Kel Nagle, Bobby Locke, Peter Thomson, Sam Snead, Dick Burton, Denny Shute, Bobby Jones, Jock Hutchison, James Braid (twice), John Henry Taylor (twice), Hugh Kirkaldy, Jack Burns, Bob Martin (twice), Jamie Anderson and Tom Kidd.

Course

Main article: Old Course at St Andrews

Hole	Name	Yards	Par	Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Burn	376	4		10	Bobby Jones	380
2	Dyke	453	4	11	High (In)	174	3
3	Cartgate (Out)	397	4	12	Heathery (In)	348	4
4	Ginger Beer	480	4	13	Hole O'Cross (In)	465	4
5	Hole O'Cross (Out)	568	5	14	Long	618	5
6	Heathery (Out)	412	4	15	Cartgate (In)	456	4
7	High (Out)	390	4	16	Corner of the Dyke	423	4
8	Short	175	3	17	Road	455	4
9	End	352	4	18	Tom Morris	357	4
Out	3,603	36	In	3,676	36
	Total	7,279	72

Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):

7115 yd - 2000
6933 yd - 1995, 1990, 1984, 1978
6957 yd - 1970
6926 yd - 1964
6936 yd - 1960, 1955

Field

1. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2004 Open Championship

Ernie Els (2,3,4,13), Retief Goosen (3,4,9,13), Todd Hamilton (2,3,13), Thomas Levet (4,17), Davis Love III (3,12,13,17), Phil Mickelson (3,10,13,17), Scott Verplank (3,13), Mike Weir (3,10,13), Lee Westwood (3,4,17), Tiger Woods (2,3,9,10,11,13,17)

2. Past Open Champions aged 65 or under on 17 July 2005

Mark Calcavecchia, Ben Curtis, John Daly (3), David Duval, Nick Faldo, Tony Jacklin, Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman (3), Justin Leonard (3), Sandy Lyle, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Mark O'Meara, Nick Price, Tom Watson

Eligible but not competing: Ian Baker-Finch, Seve Ballesteros, Johnny Miller, Bill Rogers, Tom Weiskopf

3. The first 50 players on the OWGR for Week 22, 2005

Stephen Ames (13), Stuart Appleby (13), Thomas Bjørn, Ángel Cabrera (4,5), Chad Campbell (17), K. J. Choi, Stewart Cink (13,17), Tim Clark, Darren Clarke (4,17), Fred Couples, Chris DiMarco (13,17), Luke Donald (4,17), Fred Funk (12,17), Jim Furyk (9,17), Sergio García (4,13,17), Mark Hensby (13), Tim Herron, Charles Howell III, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (4,17), Zach Johnson (13), Jerry Kelly (13), Peter Lonard, Shigeki Maruyama, Graeme McDowell (4), Paul McGinley (17), Colin Montgomerie (17), Nick O'Hern (4), Rod Pampling, Craig Parry, Kenny Perry (17), Ian Poulter (4,17), Rory Sabbatini (13), Adam Scott (12,13), Vijay Singh (11,13,21), David Toms (11,17)

Eligible but not competing: Jay Haas (17), Pádraig Harrington (4,17), David Howell (4,17)

4. First 20 in the European Tour Final Order of Merit for 2004

Paul Casey (17), Stephen Gallacher, Richard Green (19), Joakim Haeggman, Trevor Immelman, Jean-François Remésy

5. The BMW PGA Championship winners for 2003–05

Scott Drummond, Ignacio Garrido

6. First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt, in the top 20 of the European Tour Order of Merit for 2005 on completion of the 2005 BMW PGA Championship

Stephen Dodd, Peter Hanson, Steve Webster

7. First 2 European Tour members and any European Tour members tying for 2nd place, not exempt, in a cumulative money list taken from all official European Tour events from the British Masters up to and including the Open de France and including The U.S. Open

Søren Hansen, Jean van de Velde

8. The leading player, not exempt, in the first 10 and ties of each of the 2005 European Open and the 2005 Scottish Open

Maarten Lafeber, Graeme Storm

9. The U.S. Open Champions for 2001–05

Michael Campbell

10. The Masters Champions for 2001–05

11. The PGA Champions for 2000–04

Rich Beem, Shaun Micheel

12. The Players Champions for 2003–05

13. First 20 on the Official Money List of the PGA Tour for 2004

Steve Flesch

14. First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt, in the top 20 of the Official Money List of the PGA Tour for 2005 on completion of the FedEx St. Jude Classic

Joe Ogilvie, Tim Petrovic, Ted Purdy

15. First 2 PGA Tour members and any PGA Tour members tying for 2nd place, not exempt, in a cumulative money list taken from the Players Championship and the five PGA Tour events leading up to and including the 2005 Western Open

Bart Bryant

Eligible but not competing: Billy Mayfair

16. The leading player, not exempt having applied (15) above, in each of the 2005 Western Open and the 2005 John Deere Classic

Sean O'Hair, Pat Perez

17. Playing members of the 2004 Ryder Cup teams

Chris Riley

18. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Asian Tour for 2004

Thongchai Jaidee

19. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place on the Order of Merit of the PGA Tour of Australasia for 2004

Euan Walters

20. First and anyone tying for 1st place on the Order of Merit of the Sunshine Tour for 2004/2005

Charl Schwartzel

21. The Canadian Open Champion for 2004

22. The Japan Open Champion for 2004

Toru Taniguchi

23. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt, on the Official Money List of the Japan Golf Tour for 2004

Yang Yong-eun

Eligible but not competing: Shingo Katayama

24. The leading 4 players, not exempt, in the 2005 Mizuno Open

Chris Campbell, David Smail, Thammanoon Sriroj, Tadahiro Takayama

25. First 2 and anyone tying for 2nd place, not exempt having applied (24) above, in a cumulative money list taken from all official Japan Golf Tour events from the 2005 Japan PGA Championship up to and including the 2005 Mizuno Open

Hiroyuki Fujita, Hur Suk-ho

26. The Senior Open Champion for 2004

Pete Oakley

27. The Amateur Champion for 2005

Brian McElhinney (a)

28. The U.S. Amateur Champion for 2004

Ryan Moore forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

29. The European Amateur Champion for 2004

Matthew Richardson (a)

International Final Qualifying :Africa: André Bossert, David Frost, Doug McGuigan :Australasia: David Diaz, Martin Doyle, Nick Flanagan, Peter Fowler :Asia: Danny Chia, Mardan Mamat, Richard Moir :America: Robert Allenby, Jason Allred, Rich Barcelo, Tom Byrum, Alex Čejka, Daniel Chopra, Joe Durant, Scott Gutschewski, Scott Hend, Geoff Ogilvy, Tom Pernice Jr., Wilhelm Schauman, Bo Van Pelt, Duffy Waldorf :Europe: Peter Baker, John Bickerton, Andrew Butterfield, Robert Coles, Simon Dyson, Kenneth Ferrie, Alastair Forsyth, Marcus Fraser, Simon Khan, Peter Lawrie, Andrew Oldcorn, Robert Rock, Patrik Sjöland, Ian Woosnam

Local Final Qualifying (Saturday 9 July and Sunday 10 July) :Ladybank: Edoardo Molinari (a), Robert Steele (a), John Wade :Leven Links: Sean McDonagh, Eric Ramsay (a), Tino Schuster :Lundin: Lars Brovold, Brad Faxon, Oscar Florén (a) :Scotscraig: Andrew Marshall, Lloyd Saltman (a), Murray Urquhart

Alternates

José María Olazábal – replaced Seve Ballesteros
Bob Tway – took spot not taken by Billy Mayfair
Bernhard Langer – replaced Shingo Katayama
Freddie Jacobson – replaced Jay Haas
Brian Davis – replaced David Howell
Henrik Stenson – replaced Pádraig Harrington

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 14 July 2005

Tiger Woods stormed out to a 66 (−6) for a one shot lead over Mark Hensby, who missed a birdie putt on the 18th green. Defending champion Todd Hamilton shot 74 (+2) and Jack Nicklaus, the 18-time major champion, carded 75 (+3).

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Tiger Woods	66	−6
2	AUS Mark Hensby	67	−5
T3	USA Fred Couples	68	−4
ENG Luke Donald
ZAF Retief Goosen
ZAF Trevor Immelman
AUS Peter Lonard
ESP José María Olazábal
SCO Eric Ramsay (a)
USA Chris Riley
DEU Tino Schuster
USA Scott Verplank

Second round

Friday, 15 July 2005

Nicklaus made a 15 ft birdie putt on the final stroke of his professional career. On his walk up to the final green, he received a near ten-minute standing ovation, pausing for photographs on the iconic Swilcan Bridge. Nicklaus shot an even-par 72 in his final competitive round, but his 147 (+3) missed the cut by two strokes.

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Tiger Woods	66-67=133	−11
2	SCO Colin Montgomerie	71-66=137	−7
T3	AUS Robert Allenby	70-68=138	−6
USA Brad Faxon	72-66=138
ZAF Trevor Immelman	68-70=138
AUS Peter Lonard	68-70=138
ESP José María Olazábal	68-70=138
FIJ Vijay Singh	69-69=138
USA Scott Verplank	68-70=138
T10	USA Bart Bryant	69-70=139	−5
USA Fred Couples	68-71=139
ESP Sergio García	70-69=139
ENG Simon Khan	69-70=139
USA Bo Van Pelt	72-67=139

Source:

Amateurs: Molinari (−4), Ramsay (−2), Richardson (E), Saltman (E), Florén (+7), McElhinney (+9), Steele (+9).

Third round

Saturday, 16 July 2005

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Tiger Woods	66-67-71=204	−12
2	ESP José María Olazábal	68-70-68=206	−10
T3	ZAF Retief Goosen	68-73-66=207	−9
SCO Colin Montgomerie	71-66-70=207
T5	USA Brad Faxon	72-66-70=208	−8
ESP Sergio García	70-69-69=208
T7	NZL Michael Campbell	69-72-68=209	−7
FJI Vijay Singh	69-69-71=209
T9	USA Bart Bryant	69-70-71=210	−6
ZAF Tim Clark	71-69-70=210
NIR Darren Clarke	73-70-67=210
USA John Daly	71-69-70=210
DEN Søren Hansen	72-72-66=210
NED Maarten Lafeber	73-70-67=210
DEU Bernhard Langer	71-69-70=210
SCO Sandy Lyle	74-67-69=210
USA Sean O'Hair	73-67-70=210
USA Kenny Perry	71-71-68=210
USA Scott Verplank	68-70-72=210

Final round

Sunday, 17 July 2005

Woods moved to 10-0 when leading going into the final round of a major, winning his second Open Championship title. He pulled away from Colin Montgomerie who finished second in a major for the fifth time. Woods shot a 2-under 70, the only round under par among the final 14 players. Fred Couples and Duffy Waldorf shot 68, the low rounds of the day.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	USA Tiger Woods	66-67-71-70=274	−14	720,000
2	SCO Colin Montgomerie	71-66-70-72=279	−9	430,000
T3	USA Fred Couples	68-71-73-68=280	−8	242,350
ESP José María Olazábal	68-70-68-74=280
T5	NZL Michael Campbell	69-72-68-72=281	−7	122,100
ESP Sergio García	70-69-69-73=281
ZAF Retief Goosen	68-73-66-74=281
DEU Bernhard Langer	71-69-70-71=281
AUS Geoff Ogilvy	71-74-67-69=281
FJI Vijay Singh	69-69-71-72=281

Source:

Amateurs: Saltman (−5), Ramsay (−4), Molinari (+1), Richardson (+9).

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	4	4
USA Woods	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13	−14	−13	−13	−14	−14	−15	−15	−15	−14	−14
SCO Montgomerie	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9
USA Couples	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8
ESP Olazábal	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−10	−9	−9	−8	−8	−7	−8
NZL Campbell	−7	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7
ESP García	−8	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−6	−5	−6	−7	−7	−6	−7
RSA Goosen	−8	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−5	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7
GER Langer	−6	−6	−6	−6	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−7	−7	−6	−7
AUS Ogilvy	−4	−3	−3	−2	−2	−1	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−7
FIJ Singh	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−8	−8	−7	−7	−6	−7

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

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

Source:

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