1935 Open Championship

1935 Open Championship

Tournament information
Location	Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland
Course(s)	Muirfield
Statistics
Field	109 players
Champion
Alf Perry
283

The 1935 Open Championship was a golf tournament played at Muirfield in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. In the 70th Open Championship, little-known Alf Perry won by four strokes over Alf Padgham.

Defending champion Henry Cotton took the first round lead after an opening 68, with Alf Perry a stroke behind. Charles Whitcombe carded his own round of 68 in the second round and took the lead by three over Cotton and Alf Padgham after 36-holes, with Perry falling five back. In the third round it was Perry who caught fire, shooting a 67 and moving ahead of Cotton and Whitcombe, who shot 76 and 73, respectively. A 72 in the final round was enough for Perry to prevail by four over Padgham. Whitcombe finished in 3rd place, while Cotton fell to 7th with a final-round 75. Amateur Lawson Little, the reigning British Amateur champion, finished in a tie for 4th. Perry's winning total of 283 equaled the tournament scoring record.

Perry's Open Championship title was his first win of any kind as a professional golfer, and he only won three more times. He finished in 3rd place in the 1939 Open, but otherwise had no other top-10 finishes in a major championship.

Final leaderboard

#	Player	Country	Score
1	Alf Perry	England	69-75-67-72=283
2	Alf Padgham	England	70-72-74-71=287
3	Charles Whitcombe	England	71-68-73-76=288
T4	Bert Gadd	England	72-75-71-71=289
	Lawson Little (a)	United States	75-71-74-69=289
6	Henry Picard	United States	72-73-72-75=292
T7	Henry Cotton	England	68-74-76-75=293
	Syd Easterbrook	England	75-73-74-71=293
9	William Branch	United Kingdom	71-73-76-74=294
10	Laurie Ayton	Scotland	74-73-77-71=295

(a) denotes amateur

External links

• 1935 Open Championship
• The Open Championship