1966 Open Championship

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1966 Open Championship

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The 1966 Open Championship was a golf competition held at Muirfield. The competition was won by Jack Nicklaus.

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Round summaries

First round

# Player Country Score To par
T1 Jimmy Hitchcock  England 70 -1
Jack Nicklaus  United States
T3 Harold Henning  South Africa 71 E
Tony Lema  United States
Doug Sanders  United States
Ronnie Shade (a)  Scotland
T7 Fred Boobyer  England 72 +1
John Carter  England
Alex Caygill  England
Christy Greene  Ireland
Kel Nagle  Australia
Gary Player  South Africa
Dave Thomas  Wales

Second round

# Player Country Score To par
1 Jack Nicklaus  United States 70-67=137 -5
2 Peter Butler  England 73-65=138 -4
T3 Harold Henning  South Africa 71-69=140 -2
Kel Nagle  Australia 72-68=140
Phil Rodgers  United States 74-66=140
T6 Doug Sanders  United States 71-70=141 -1
Ronnie Shade (a)  Scotland 71-70=141
8 Bruce Devlin  Australia 73-69=142 E
9 Alex Caygill  England 72-71=143 +1
10 Julius Boros  United States 73-71=144 +2

Amateurs: Shade (-1), Cole (+4), Townsend (+6), Bonallack (+7), Millensted (+12), Smith (+13), Falkenburg (+22).

Third round

# Player Country Score To par
1 Phil Rodgers  United States 74-66-70=210 -3
2 Jack Nicklaus  United States 70-67-75=212 -1
3 Doug Sanders  United States 71-70-72=213 E
T4 Arnold Palmer  United States 73-72-69=214 +1
Dave Thomas  Wales 72-73-69=214
6 Harold Henning  South Africa 71-69-75=215 +2
T7 Alex Caygill  England 72-71-73=216 +3
Bruce Devlin  Australia 73-69-74=216
Sebastián Miguel  Spain 74-72-70=216
Kel Nagle  Australia 72-68-76=216
Ronnie Shade (a)  Scotland 71-70-75=216

Final leaderboard

# Player Country Score To par
1 Jack Nicklaus  United States 70-67-75-70=282 -2
T2 Doug Sanders  United States 71-70-72-70=283 -1
Dave Thomas  Wales 72-73-69-69=283
T4 Bruce Devlin  Australia 73-69-74-70=286 +2
Kel Nagle  Australia 72-68-76-70=286
Gary Player  South Africa 72-74-71-69=286
Phil Rodgers  United States 74-66-70-76=286
T8 Dave Marr  United States 73-76-69-70=288 +4
Sebastián Miguel  Spain 74-72-70-72=288
Arnold Palmer  United States 73-72-69-74=288
Peter Thomson  Australia 73-75-69-71=288

Amateurs: Shade (+9), Townsend (+11), Bonallack (+13), Cole (+14).

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