1948 Open Championship

1948 Open Championship

Tournament information
Location	Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland
Course(s)	Muirfield
Statistics
Par	71
Field	97, 36 after cut
Cut	148 (+6)
Champion
Henry Cotton
284 (E)

The 1948 Open Championship was a golf tournament played at Muirfield in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. It was the 77th Open Championship. Henry Cotton won his third Open Championship title by five strokes over defending champion Fred Daly.

Charlie Ward, Sam King, and Flory Van Donck shot 69 to share the first round lead. Henry Cotton opened with a 71, then took the lead with a 66 in the second round, one off his own tournament record set in 1934. While scoring conditions in the first two rounds were ideal, with five other rounds of sub-70 in the second, the change in weather on the final day caused scores to soar. Over the final two rounds no player recorded a round below 70. Cotton carded rounds of 75-72 to set a clubhouse lead of 284 that no one came close to matching. Fred Daly came closest with a 289, five-shots behind.

Argentine Roberto De Vicenzo was making his Open Championship debut and finished in 3rd place. Over the next two years he followed with another 3rd and a runner-up finish. He would eventually win the title in 1967.

Final leaderboard

#	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Henry Cotton	England	71-66-75-72=284	E
2	Fred Daly	Northern Ireland	72-71-73-73=289	+5
T3	Roberto De Vicenzo	Argentina	70-73-72-75=290	+6
	Jack Hargreaves	England	76-68-73-73=290
	Norman Von Nida	Australia	71-72-76-71=290
	Charlie Ward	England	69-72-75-74=290
T7	Johnny Bulla	United States	74-72-73-72=291	+7
	Sam King	England	69-72-74-76=291
	Alf Padgham	England	73-70-71-77=291
	Flory Van Donck	Belgium	69-73-73-76=291

External links

• 1948 Open Championship
• The Open Championship