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Tournament information | |
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Dates | 18–21 July 2002 |
Location | Gullane, Scotland |
Course(s) | Muirfield Golf Links |
Tour(s) | European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour |
Statistics | |
Par | 71[1] |
Length | 7,034 yards (6,432 m)[1] |
Field | 156 players, 83 after cut[1] |
Cut | 144 (+2)[1] |
Prize fund | £3,800,000 €5,947,076 $6,004,760 |
Winner's share | £700,000 €1,095,514 $1,106,140 |
Champion | |
Ernie Els | |
278 (−6), playoff | |
The 2002 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 131st Open Championship, held from 18 to 21 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Ernie Els won his first Claret Jug and third major title in a playoff over Stuart Appleby, Steve Elkington, and ultimately in a sudden-death playoff over Thomas Levet.[2][3]
Tiger Woods' bid for the Grand Slam came to a halt on Saturday with the worst round of his career up to that time, an 81 (+10) in cold, gusty rain.[4] It took him and others out of contention, but he rebounded on Sunday with a six-under 65 and finished at even par, six strokes back. Woods was the first in thirty years to win the first two legs (Masters, U.S. Open), last done by Jack Nicklaus in 1972.[5] Nicklaus' grand slam bid also ended at Muirfield, runner-up by one stroke to Lee Trevino in 1972. The only one to win the first three was Ben Hogan in 1953. Entering the championship, Woods had won seven of the previous eleven majors.[6]
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Yards | 448 | 351 | 378 | 213 | 560 | 468 | 185 | 443 | 508 | 3,554 | 475 | 389 | 381 | 191 | 448 | 415 | 186 | 546 | 449 | 3,480 | 7,034 |
Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 35 | 71 |
Source:[7]
Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):[1]
Billy Andrade (4), Alex Čejka, Darren Clarke (4,5,18), David Duval (2,3,4,13,14,18), Ernie Els (4,5,10,14), Niclas Fasth (4,5,18), Sergio García (4,14,18), Retief Goosen (4,5,10), Mikko Ilonen, Raphaël Jacquelin, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (5), Bernhard Langer (4,5,18), Billy Mayfair, Colin Montgomerie (4,5,6,18), Jesper Parnevik (4,18), Loren Roberts, Vijay Singh (4,11,12,14), Des Smyth, Kevin Sutherland (4), Ian Woosnam (5)
John Daly (3,4), Nick Faldo (3), Paul Lawrie (3,5), Tom Lehman (3,4,14), Justin Leonard (3,4), Greg Norman (3), Mark O'Meara (3,11), Nick Price (3,4), Tiger Woods (3,4,10,11,12,13,14,18)
Mark Calcavecchia (4,14,18), Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson
Robert Allenby (14), Thomas Bjørn (5,18), Ángel Cabrera (5), Michael Campbell (5), Stewart Cink (18), José Cóceres, John Cook, Chris DiMarco (14), Bob Estes (14), Brad Faxon (14), Jim Furyk (14,18), Pádraig Harrington (5,18), Dudley Hart, Scott Hoch (14,18), Toshimitsu Izawa (23), Shingo Katayama (23), Jerry Kelly, Matt Kuchar, Davis Love III (12,14,18), Shigeki Maruyama, Len Mattiace, Scott McCarron, Paul McGinley (5,18), Rocco Mediate, Phil Mickelson (14,18), José María Olazábal (11), Adam Scott (5), David Toms (12,14,18), Scott Verplank (14,18,19), Mike Weir (14)
Mathias Grönberg, David Howell, Robert Karlsson, Thomas Levet, Peter O'Malley (22)
Barry Lane, Malcolm MacKenzie, Greg Owen, Carl Pettersson, Eduardo Romero
Roger Chapman, Bradley Dredge, Gary Evans, Darren Fichardt, Søren Hansen, Freddie Jacobson, Ian Poulter
Warren Bennett, John Bickerton, Paul Casey, Marc Farry, Ricardo González, Stephen Leaney, Jean-François Remésy, Jamie Spence
Lee Janzen, Steve Jones, Corey Pavin
Craig Perks, Hal Sutton (18)
Stephen Ames, Jim Carter, Jonathan Kaye, Peter Lonard, Jeff Maggert, Tim Petrovic, Chris Smith
Stuart Appleby, Neal Lancaster, John Riegger, Chris Riley, Steve Stricker, Bob Tway, Duffy Waldorf
Pierre Fulke, Phillip Price, Lee Westwood
Kenichi Kuboya, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Toru Suzuki, Toru Taniguchi
Thursday, 18 July 2002
Place | Player | Score | To par[8] |
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T1 | Carl Pettersson | 67 | −4 |
David Toms | |||
Duffy Waldorf | |||
T4 | Stephen Ames | 68 | −3 |
Thomas Bjørn | |||
Søren Hansen | |||
Steve Jones | |||
Sandy Lyle | |||
Shigeki Maruyama | |||
Len Mattiace | |||
Phil Mickelson | |||
Nick Price | |||
Jean-François Remésy | |||
Justin Rose | |||
Des Smyth |
Friday, 19 July 2002
Place | Player | Score | To par[9] |
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T1 | Ernie Els | 70-66=136 | −6 |
Pádraig Harrington | 69-67=136 | ||
Shigeki Maruyama | 68-68=136 | ||
Bob Tway | 70-66=136 | ||
Duffy Waldorf | 67-69=136 | ||
T6 | Søren Hansen | 68-69=137 | −5 |
Carl Pettersson | 67-70=137 | ||
Des Smyth | 68-69=137 | ||
T9 | Stephen Ames | 68-70=138 | −4 |
Thomas Bjørn | 68-70=138 | ||
Thomas Levet | 72-66=138 | ||
Colin Montgomerie | 74-64=138 | ||
Mark O'Meara | 69-69=138 | ||
Ian Poulter | 69-69=138 | ||
Nick Price | 68-70=138 | ||
Tiger Woods | 70-68=138 |
Amateurs: Young (+5), Kemp (+6), Larrazábal (+10).
Saturday, 20 July 2002
Place | Player | Score | To par[10] |
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1 | Ernie Els | 70-66-72=208 | −5 |
2 | Søren Hansen | 68-69-73=210 | −3 |
T3 | Thomas Bjørn | 68-70-73=211 | −2 |
Sergio García | 71-69-71=211 | ||
Justin Leonard | 71-72-68=211 | ||
Shigeki Maruyama | 68-68-75=211 | ||
Scott McCarron | 71-68-72=211 | ||
Justin Rose | 68-75-68=211 | ||
Des Smyth | 68-69-74=211 | ||
T10 | Steve Elkington | 71-73-68=212 | −1 |
Pádraig Harrington | 69-67-76=212 | ||
Thomas Levet | 72-66-74=212 | ||
Peter Lonard | 72-72-68=212 |
Sunday, 21 July 2002
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (£) |
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T1 | Ernie Els | 70-66-72-70=278 | −6 | Playoff |
Thomas Levet | 72-66-74-66=278 | |||
Stuart Appleby | 73-70-70-65=278 | |||
Steve Elkington | 71-73-68-66=278 | |||
T5 | Gary Evans | 72-68-74-65=279 | −5 | 140,000 |
Pádraig Harrington | 69-67-76-67=279 | |||
Shigeki Maruyama | 68-68-75-68=279 | |||
T8 | Thomas Bjørn | 68-70-73-69=280 | −4 | 77,500 |
Sergio García | 71-69-71-69=280 | |||
Retief Goosen | 71-68-74-67=280 | |||
Søren Hansen | 68-69-73-70=280 | |||
Scott Hoch | 74-69-71-66=280 | |||
Peter O'Malley | 72-68-75-65=280 |
Source:[11]
Final round
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:[12]
The four-hole aggregate playoff was contested over holes 1, 16, 17, & 18; Levet and Elkington went off in the first pair and Els and Appleby in the last. After a 50-foot (15 m) birdie putt on the second hole (#16, par 3), Levet led by a stroke, but bogeyed the last to tie Els at even-par. Appleby and Elkington also bogeyed the last hole and were eliminated by a stroke.[13] At the first hole (#18) of sudden death, Levet put his tee shot in a fairway bunker and bogeyed. Els saved par from a greenside bunker with a five-foot (1.6 m) putt to win the title.[3] Through 2023, this is the only four-man playoff in Open Championship history, and no other current major championship has had a four-way playoff.
Place | Player | Four-hole | Sudden-death | Money (£) | ||
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Score | To par | Score | To par | |||
1 | Ernie Els | 4-3-5-4=16 | E | 4 | E | 700,000 |
T2 | Thomas Levet | 4-2-5-5=16 | 5 | +1 | 286,667 | |
Stuart Appleby | 4-4-4-5=17 | +1 | ||||
Steve Elkington | 5-3-4-5=17 |
Hole | 1 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
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Par | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
Els | E | E | E | E |
Levet | E | −1 | −1 | E |
Appleby | E | +1 | E | +1 |
Elkington | +1 | +1 | E | +1 |
Sudden-death | ||||
Els | E | |||
Levet | +1 |
Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par