1983 Open Championship
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 14–17 July 1983 |
| Location | Southport, England |
| Course | Royal Birkdale Golf Club |
| Tour(s) | European Tour PGA Tour |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 71[1] |
| Length | 6,968 yards (6,372 m)[1] |
| Field | 151 players 83 after 1st cut 63 after 2nd cut[1] |
| Cut | 146 (+4) (1st cut) 217 (+4) (2nd cut)[1] |
| Prize fund | £400,000 $600,000 |
| Winner's share | £40,000 $60,000 |
| Champion | |
| United States Tom Watson | |
| 275 (−9) | |
The 1983 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 112th Open Championship, held from 14 to 17 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. It was the sixth time the course had hosted, with the first in 1954.
Defending champion Tom Watson won his fifth Open Championship, one stroke ahead of runners-up Andy Bean and Hale Irwin.[2][3] It was his second consecutive Open win and third in the last four,[4] but was helped by Irwin "whiffing" a one-inch putt on the 14th hole on the third day, which cost him a chance of a play-off with Watson for the tournament.[5]
At age 33, this was Watson's eighth and final major title; he had won three of the last six majors, but had not won any event for twelve months.[6][5]
Watson was the fifth to win five Open Championships, last accomplished in 1965 by Peter Thomson, also at Royal Birkdale. He was the first to successfully defend the title in over a decade, since Lee Trevino in 1972 at Muirfield.[2] Of his five Open wins, this was the only one outside Scotland.[7][8]
Seven years earlier at Royal Birkdale in 1976, defending champion Watson posted an 80 in the third round, finishing with a pair of sixes, and missed the 54-hole cut by a stroke.[9]
Course layout
[edit | edit source]| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yards | 450 | 423 | 410 | 206 | 343 | 468 | 150 | 470 | 410 | 3,330 | 384 | 411 | 184 | 505 | 198 | 542 | 415 | 526 | 473 | 3,638 | 6,968 |
| Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 34 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 37 | 71 |
Round summaries
[edit | edit source]First round
[edit | edit source]Thursday, 14 July 1983
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Craig Stadler | 64 | −7 |
| T2 |  Bernhard Langer |
67 | −4 |
| United States Bill Rogers | |||
| United States Tom Watson | |||
| T5 | England Nick Faldo | 68 | −3 |
| Australia Mike Ferguson | |||
| Australia Vaughan Somers | |||
| United States Hal Sutton | |||
| Scotland Sam Torrance | |||
| T10 | Republic of Ireland Eamonn Darcy | 69 | −2 |
| England David Dunk | |||
| United States Hubert Green | |||
| Australia Graham Marsh | |||
| Wales Philip Parkin (a) | |||
| United States Lee Trevino |
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Second round
[edit | edit source]Friday, 15 July 1983
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Craig Stadler | 64-70=134 | −8 |
| T2 | United States Lee Trevino | 69-66=135 | −7 |
| United States Tom Watson | 67-68=135 | ||
| 4 | England Nick Faldo | 68-68=136 | −6 |
| 5 | United States Hale Irwin | 69-68=137 | −5 |
| T6 | United States Raymond Floyd | 72-66=138 | −4 |
| Australia Terry Gale | 72-66=138 | ||
| United States Bill Rogers | 67-71=138 | ||
| T9 | United States Andy Bean | 70-69=139 | −3 |
| England Denis Durnian | 73-66=139 | ||
| Bernhard Langer |
67-72=139 | ||
| Australia Graham Marsh | 69-70=139 | ||
| United States Hal Sutton | 68-71=139 |
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Amateurs: Parkin (+5), Gilford (+7), Plaxton (+12), Thompson (+12), Wood (+12), Hamer (+13), Thomas (+13), Crosby (+17).
Third round
[edit | edit source]Saturday, 16 July 1983
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Tom Watson | 67-68-70=205 | −8 |
| 2 | United States Craig Stadler | 64-70-72=206 | −7 |
| T3 | England Nick Faldo | 68-68-71=207 | −6 |
| United States Raymond Floyd | 72-66-69=207 | ||
| Australia David Graham | 71-69-67=207 | ||
| 6 | United States Lee Trevino | 69-66-73=208 | −5 |
| T7 | United States Andy Bean | 70-69-70=209 | −4 |
| United States Hale Irwin | 69-68-72=209 | ||
| Zimbabwe Mark McNulty | 72-69-68=209 | ||
| United States Fuzzy Zoeller | 71-71-67=209 |
Final round
[edit | edit source]Sunday, 17 July 1983
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (£) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Tom Watson | 67-68-70-70=275 | −9 | 40,000 |
| T2 | United States Andy Bean | 70-69-70-67=276 | −8 | 23,000 |
| United States Hale Irwin | 69-68-72-67=276 | |||
| 4 | Australia Graham Marsh | 69-70-74-64=277 | −7 | 15,000 |
| 5 | United States Lee Trevino | 69-66-73-70=278 | −6 | 13,600 |
| T6 | Spain Seve Ballesteros | 71-71-69-68=279 | −5 | 12,250 |
| South Africa Harold Henning | 71-69-70-69=279 | |||
| T8 | England Denis Durnian | 73-66-74-67=280 | −4 | 9,625 |
| England Nick Faldo | 68-68-71-73=280 | |||
| Republic of Ireland Christy O'Connor Jnr | 72-69-71-68=280 | |||
| United States Bill Rogers | 67-71-73-69=280 |
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- The exchange rate at the time was approximately 1.52 dollars (US) per pound sterling.[17]
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External links
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