1960 Open Championship

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Script error: No such module "Location map". Script error: No such module "Location map". The 1960 Open Championship was the 89th Open Championship, played 6–9 July at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. In the centenary year of the Open Championship, Kel Nagle prevailed over Arnold Palmer by a single stroke;[1][2] this year marked the championship's re-emergence as a major stop for American players.

The total prize money was increased by forty per cent, from £5,000 to £7,000. The winner's share was increased to £1,250 with £900 for second, £700 for third, £500 for fourth, £400 for fifth, £300 for sixth, £250 for seventh, £200 for eighth, £150 for ninth, and £130 for tenth. The next fifteen places each received £60 with £50 for next seven and then £40 for the next eighteen. The £50 prize for winning the qualification event was unchanged while the four prizes for the lowest score in each round were increased to £50. For the centenary event there was a special prize for the winner in the form of a replica of the claret jug.[3]

Qualifying took place on 4–5 July, Monday and Tuesday, with 18 holes on the Old Course and 18 holes on the New Course.[4] A maximum of 100 players could qualify. Gary Player led the qualifiers as medalist at 135, and the qualifying score was 147 and 74 players qualified; 28 players on 148 were not included.[5][6][7][8] Dick Metz, who had won the World Senior Golf Championship at Gleneagles on 3 July, was one of those on 148 who just failed to qualify.[9]

Roberto De Vicenzo opened the tournament proper with consecutive rounds of 67 on Wednesday and Thursday to take a two-stroke lead over Nagle.[10] In the third round, De Vicenzo's drive on the 14th ended up on top of a wall and he finished the round with a score of 75, allowing Nagle to take a two-shot lead. Palmer, who had won the U.S. Open three weeks earlier by erasing a seven-shot deficit in the final round, was four back after 54-holes. The final round on Friday afternoon was delayed until Saturday due to a heavy rainfall that flooded portions of the course;[11][12] the first postponement in over fifty years.[13] When play resumed the next day, Palmer and Nagle both went out in 34. Still four-strokes behind, Palmer began another charge on the back. He made up strokes on the 13th and 15th, made a 4 on the 17th, then made birdie at the last. Nagle was standing over a crucial par putt on the Road Hole 17th when he heard the roar signifying Palmer's birdie at 18. He managed to collect himself and hole the putt, then made a safe 4 at the last to win the title by a single shot over Palmer.[14]

Already 39 at the time of his victory, this was Nagle's first top ten finish in a major championship. Although little-known outside of Australia at the time of the tournament, he went on to have success throughout the next decade and came close to winning another major at the 1965 U.S. Open, losing to Gary Player in an 18-hole playoff.

Palmer had won the first two majors at the Masters and U.S. Open, and was attempting to equal Ben Hogan's 1953 season with a third consecutive major. His appearance established the British Open as an important tournament for American golfers and, although Palmer himself skipped the tournament a few times afterward, the best American players began crossing the Atlantic with regularity from then on. Palmer won the next two Opens in 1961 and 1962.

The appearance of Palmer, already the most popular golfer in the world, proved to be a turning point for the Open Championship. Until the 1960s, few Americans made the trip to the Open Championship, with the lengthy ocean-voyage and high costs of traveling to Britain often more than they stood to win in the tournament. Even Palmer, winner of the first two majors of the year, had to play in the 36-hole qualifier immediately preceding it.[7][8] The 1960 event included only four Americans following the qualifier, and only two made the cut. Ten years later, 24 Americans were in the field of 134. For many years, the event often conflicted with the PGA Championship in the U.S., a more lucrative major which gradually moved to late July and then August.

Card of the course

Hole Name Yards Par Hole Name Yards Par
1 Burn 374 4 10 Tenth ^ 338 4
2 Dyke 411 4 11 High (In) 170 3
3 Cartgate (Out) 400 4 12 Heathery (In) 360 4
4 Ginger Beer 439 4 13 Hole O'Cross (In) 427 4
5 Hole O'Cross (Out) 567 5 14 Long 560 5
6 Heathery (Out) 377 4 15 Cartgate (In) 413 4
7 High (Out) 364 4 16 Corner of the Dyke 380 4
8 Short 163 3 17 Road 453 4
9 End 359 4 18 Tom Morris 381 4
Out 3,454 36 In 3,482 36
Source:[6][15] Total 6,936 72

^ The 10th hole was posthumously named for Bobby Jones in 1972

Round summaries

First round

Wednesday, 6 July 1960

Place Player Score To par
1 Template:Flagicon Roberto De Vicenzo 67 −5
T2 Template:Flagicon Fidel de Luca 69 −3
Template:Flagicon Kel Nagle
T4 Template:Flagicon David Blair (a) 70 −2
Template:Flagicon Ken Bousfield
Template:Flagicon Arnold Palmer
Template:Flagicon Peter Shanks
8 Template:Flagicon Peter Mills 71 −1
T9 Template:Flagicon Joe Carr (a) 72 E
Template:Flagicon José María Gonzáles
Template:Flagicon Harold Henning
Template:Flagicon Bernard Hunt
Template:Flagicon George Low
Template:Flagicon Jimmy Martin
Template:Flagicon Ángel Miguel
Template:Flagicon Ralph Moffitt
Template:Flagicon Raymond Munro (a)
Template:Flagicon Gary Player
Template:Flagicon Leopoldo Ruiz
Template:Flagicon Peter Thomson

Source:[15]

Second round

Thursday, 7 July 1960

A maximum of fifty players could make the cut. The 47 who scored 149 (+5) or better qualified for the final day; eight players scoring 150 (+6) were not included.

Place Player Score To par
1 Template:Flagicon Roberto De Vicenzo 67-67=134 −10
2 Template:Flagicon Kel Nagle 69-67=136 −8
T3 Template:Flagicon Sebastián Miguel 73-68=141 −3
Template:Flagicon Arnold Palmer 70-71=141
Template:Flagicon Peter Thomson 72-69=141
T6 Template:Flagicon Laurie Ayton, Jnr 73-69=142 −2
Template:Flagicon Fidel de Luca 69-73=142
T8 Template:Flagicon David Blair (a) 70-73=143 −1
Template:Flagicon Eric Brown 75-68=143
Template:Flagicon Ralph Moffitt 72-71=143
Template:Flagicon Gary Player 72-71=143
Template:Flagicon Peter Shanks 70-73=143

Source:[10]
Amateurs: Blair (−1), Wolstenholme (E), Deighton (E), Carr (+1), Jack (+1), Smith (+1),
Deboys (+2), Munro (+5), Shade (+5), Walker (+6), Wright (+6), Saddler (+7), Nisbet (+9).

Third round

Friday, 8 July 1960 - (morning)

Place Player Score To par
1 Template:Flagicon Kel Nagle 69-67-71=207 −9
2 Template:Flagicon Roberto De Vicenzo 67-67-75=209 −7
T3 Template:Flagicon Arnold Palmer 70-71-70=211 −5
Template:Flagicon Syd Scott 73-71-67=211
5 Template:Flagicon Joe Carr (a) 72-73-67=212 −4
6 Template:Flagicon Harold Henning 72-72-69=213 −3
7 Template:Flagicon David Blair (a) 70-73-71=214 −2
T8 Template:Flagicon Eric Brown 75-68-72=215 −1
Template:Flagicon Reid Jack (a) 74-71-70=215
Template:Flagicon Sebastián Miguel 73-68-74=215
Template:Flagicon Peter Mills 71-74-70=215
Template:Flagicon Gary Player 72-71-72=215
Template:Flagicon Harry Weetman 74-70-71=215
Template:Flagicon Guy Wolstenholme (a) 74-70-71=215

Source:[12][11]

Final round

Saturday, 9 July 1960

Place Player Score To Par Money (£)
1 Template:Flagicon Kel Nagle 69-67-71-71=278 −10 1,250
2 Template:Flagicon Arnold Palmer 70-71-70-68=279 −9 900
T3 Template:Flagicon Roberto De Vicenzo 67-67-75-73=282 −6 533
Template:Flagicon Harold Henning 72-72-69-69=282
Template:Flagicon Bernard Hunt 72-73-71-66=282
6 Template:Flagicon Guy Wolstenholme (a) 74-70-71-68=283 −5 −
7 Template:Flagicon Gary Player 72-71-72-69=284 −4 300
8 Template:Flagicon Joe Carr (a) 72-73-67-73=285 −3 −
T9 Template:Flagicon David Blair (a) 70-73-71-72=286 −2 −
Template:Flagicon Eric Brown 75-68-72-71=286 158
Template:Flagicon Dai Rees 73-71-73-69=286
Template:Flagicon Syd Scott 73-71-67-75=286
Template:Flagicon Peter Thomson 72-69-75-70=286
Template:Flagicon Harry Weetman 74-70-71-71=286

Source:[1][2]

(a) denotes amateur

Amateurs: Wolstenholme (−5), Carr (−3), Blair (−2), Jack (E), Deboys (+2), Smith (+9), Shade (+11), Deighton (+14), Munro (+20)

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