Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland: Open Championship

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Open Championship

1910: St Andrews

	Player	Score
1	James Braid	299
2	Sandy Herd	303
3	George Duncan	304
4	Laurie Ayton Snr	306
5	Ted Ray	308
	Fred Robson	308
	Willie Smith	308
	E P Gaudin	308
	James Kinnell	308
	T G Renouf Donald Ross	308

Bernard Darwin recounts James Braid’s ‘as fine a round as he ever played’ being one which did not count. The hard ground at St Andrews was subject to a torrential downpour of rain which flooded the course causing the first day’s play to be abandoned. Braid had already started his round and when news of the abandonment reached him, ‘it may have come to him in so vague a form that he could not wholly trust it’ so he continued to play through the floods finishing with a 76. Undaunted, he went round again the next day in the same score, three behind George Duncan, but edged ahead of him in the afternoon round with a 73 to Duncan’s 77. However, Willie Smith, home for a visit from his adventures in Mexico moved to the head of the field with a record low score of 71. The next day it was Duncan who scored 71 and went into the last round two ahead of Braid and six in front of Sandy Herd. Duncan was the first to play in the afternoon but 6’s at the fifth and sixth did for him. Braid went out in 38, which was comfortable enough, and with shots in hand cautiously finished with three 5’s for another 38, finishing four ahead of Sandy Herd. His 299 was the first below 300 in an Open at St Andrews, his fifth and final victory in the Championship.