Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland: Open Championship

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Open Championship

1903: Prestwick

	Player	Score
1	Harry Vardon	300
2	Tom Vardon	306
3	Jack White	308
4	Sandy Herd	309
5	James Braid	310
6	Andrew Scott	314
	Robert Thomson	314
8	William Leaver	315
9	George Cawsey	316
	J H Taylor	316

Although he had been warned by his doctor not to play, his strength having once again slipped, play he did and Vardon won his fourth Open, having been second for the last three years. This was also the first Open where a photographer is thought to have cast a baleful influence. Vardon played a mashie to within a yard of the thirteenth pin on the third round, 'Here the attentions of a photographic assassin who fired his dastardly shot while the player was engaged and then fled with his prize was probably accounted for the missing of the putt'. No matter, Vardon struggling against exhaustion in the final round, shot 78 and was still six shots better than the field. Vardon did not win again until the eve of World War I. How many more Open Championships would he have won had he kept his health?