2014 Open Championship
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The 2014 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 143rd Open Championship, held from 17 to 20 July at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Merseyside, England. Rory McIlroy won his first Open Championship, two strokes ahead of runners-up Rickie Fowler and Sergio García, and became only the sixth to win the championship going wire-to-wire after 72 holes (being the sole leader after each round). It was McIlroy's third major title, having won the U.S. Open in 2011 and the PGA Championship in 2012; he became the first European to win three different majors and joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only three (since the first Masters Tournament in 1934) to win three majors by the age of 25.
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| Hole | Name | Yards | Par | Hole | Name | Yards | Par | |
| 1 | 17 – Royal | 458 | 4 | 10 | 8 – Far | 532 | 5 | |
| 2 | 18 – Stand | 454 | 4 | 11 | 9 – Punch Bowl | 391 | 4 | |
| 3 | 1 – Course | 426 | 4 | 12 | 10 – Dee | 447 | 4 | |
| 4 | 2 – Road | 372 | 4 | 13 | 11 – Alps | 194 | 3 | |
| 5 | 3 – Long | 528 | 5 | 14 | 12 – Hilbre | 454 | 4 | |
| 6 | 4 – New | 201 | 3 | 15 | 13 – Rushes | 161 | 3 | |
| 7 | 5 – Telegraph | 480 | 4 | 16 | 14 – Field | 577 | 5 | |
| 8 | 6 – Briars | 431 | 4 | 17 | 15 – Lake | 458 | 4 | |
| 9 | 7 – Dowie | 197 | 3 | 18 | 16 – Dun | 551 | 5 | |
| Out | 3,547 | 35 | In | 3,765 | 37 | |||
| Source | Total | 7,312 | 72 | |||||
| Location | Tournament | Date | Spots | Top | Qualifiers |
| Australia | Emirates Australian Open | 1 Dec | 3 | 10 | Rhein Gibson, Bryden Macpherson, John Senden |
| Africa | Joburg Open | 9 Feb | 3 | 10 | George Coetzee, Jin Jeong, Justin Walters |
| Thailand | 36-hole qualifier | 7 Mar | 4 | n/a | Hiroshi Iwata, Pan Cheng-tsung (a), Yoshinobu Tsukada, Wu Ashun |
| Japan | Mizuno Open | 1 Jun | 4 | 12 | Jang Dong-kyu, Kim Hyung-tae, Tomohiro Kondo, Juvic Pagunsan |
| Ireland | The Irish Open | 22 Jun | 3 | 10 | Matthew Baldwin, Edoardo Molinari, Danny Willett |
| USA | Quicken Loans National | 29 Jun | 4 | 12 | Charley Hoffman, Ben Martin, Brendan Steele, Shawn Stefani |
| France | Alstom Open de France | 6 Jul | 3 | 10 | Michael Hoey, Robert Karlsson, Victor Riu |
| USA | Greenbrier Classic | 6 Jul | 4 | 12 | Billy Hurley III, George McNeill, Chris Stroud, Cameron Tringale |
| Scotland | Scottish Open | 13 Jul | 3 | 10 | Kristoffer Broberg, Tyrrell Hatton, Scott Jamieson |
| USA | John Deere Classic | 13 Jul | 1 | 5 | Brian Harman |
| Location | Qualifiers |
| Gailes Links | Paul McKechnie (R), Jamie McLeary, Marc Warren |
| Hillside | Oscar Florén, Chris Hanson, John Singleton (R) |
| Sunningdale | An Byeong-hun, Chris Rodgers, Matthew Southgate |
| Woburn | Paul Dunne (a), Rhys Enoch, Oliver Fisher |
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Rory McIlroy | 66 | −6 |
| 2 | Matteo Manassero | 67 | −5 |
| T3 | Jim Furyk | 68 | −4 |
| Sergio García | |||
| Brooks Koepka | |||
| Shane Lowry | |||
| Edoardo Molinari | |||
| Francesco Molinari | |||
| Adam Scott | |||
| T10 | Rickie Fowler | 69 | −3 |
| Robert Karlsson | |||
| Marc Leishman | |||
| Hideki Matsuyama | |||
| Koumei Oda | |||
| Yoshinobu Tsukada | |||
| Jimmy Walker | |||
| Boo Weekley | |||
| Tiger Woods |
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Rory McIlroy | 66-66=132 | −12 |
| 2 | Dustin Johnson | 71-65=136 | −8 |
| T3 | Rickie Fowler | 69-69=138 | −6 |
| Sergio García | 68-70=138 | ||
| Francesco Molinari | 68-70=138 | ||
| Ryan Moore | 70-68=138 | ||
| Louis Oosthuizen | 70-68=138 | ||
| Charl Schwartzel | 71-67=138 | ||
| T9 | George Coetzee | 70-69=139 | −5 |
| Jim Furyk | 68-71=139 | ||
| Marc Warren | 71-68=139 |
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Rory McIlroy | 66-66-68=200 | −16 |
| 2 | Rickie Fowler | 69-69-68=206 | −10 |
| T3 | Sergio García | 68-70-69=207 | −9 |
| Dustin Johnson | 71-65-71=207 | ||
| 5 | Victor Dubuisson | 74-66-68=208 | −8 |
| 6 | Edoardo Molinari | 68-73-68=209 | −7 |
| T7 | Jim Furyk | 68-71-71=210 | −6 |
| Robert Karlsson | 69-71-70=210 | ||
| Matteo Manassero | 67-75-68=210 | ||
| Charl Schwartzel | 71-67-72=210 | ||
| Adam Scott | 68-73-69=210 |
| Champion |
| (a) = amateur |
| (c) = past champion |
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (£) |
| 1 | Rory McIlroy | 66-66-68-71=271 | −17 | 975,000 |
| T2 | Rickie Fowler | 69-69-68-67=273 | −15 | 460,000 |
| Sergio García | 68-70-69-66=273 | |||
| 4 | Jim Furyk | 68-71-71-65=275 | −13 | 280,000 |
| T5 | Marc Leishman | 69-72-70-65=276 | −12 | 210,500 |
| Adam Scott | 68-73-69-66=276 | |||
| T7 | Edoardo Molinari | 68-73-68-68=277 | −11 | 154,250 |
| Charl Schwartzel | 71-67-72-67=277 | |||
| T9 | Victor Dubuisson | 74-66-68-70=278 | −10 | 112,666 |
| Shane Lowry | 68-75-70-65=278 | |||
| Graeme McDowell | 74-69-68-67=278 |
| Leaderboard below the top 10 | |||||
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (£) | |
| T12 | Dustin Johnson | 71-65-71-72=279 | −9 | 84,667 | |
| Robert Karlsson | 69-71-70-69=279 | ||||
| Ryan Moore | 70-68-73-68=279 | ||||
| T15 | Stephen Gallacher | 70-72-70-68=280 | −8 | 68,667 | |
| David Howell | 72-70-70-68=280 | ||||
| Francesco Molinari | 68-70-75-67=280 | ||||
| 18 | George Coetzee | 70-69-74-68=281 | −7 | 61,500 | |
| T19 | Keegan Bradley | 73-71-69-69=282 | −6 | 55,000 | |
| Ángel Cabrera | 76-69-70-67=282 | ||||
| Chris Kirk | 71-74-68-69=282 | ||||
| Matteo Manassero | 67-75-68-72=282 | ||||
| T23 | Phil Mickelson (c) | 74-70-71-68=283 | −5 | 46,167 | |
| Justin Rose | 72-70-69-72=283 | ||||
| Chris Wood | 75-70-73-65=283 | ||||
| T26 | An Byeong-hun | 72-71-69-72=284 | −4 | 38,250 | |
| Thomas Bjørn | 70-71-76-67=284 | ||||
| Darren Clarke (c) | 72-72-67-73=284 | ||||
| Brian Harman | 72-73-68-71=284 | ||||
| Ben Martin | 71-73-70-70=284 | ||||
| Jimmy Walker | 69-71-71-73=284 | ||||
| T32 | Kristoffer Broberg | 70-73-70-72=285 | −3 | 31,000 | |
| David Hearn | 70-73-71-71=285 | ||||
| Hunter Mahan | 71-73-72-69=285 | ||||
| D. A. Points | 75-69-72-69=285 | ||||
| T36 | Branden Grace | 71-72-69-74=286 | −2 | 27,083 | |
| Louis Oosthuizen (c) | 70-68-76-72=286 | ||||
| Jordan Spieth | 71-75-67-73=286 | ||||
| T39 | Thongchai Jaidee | 72-72-72-71=287 | −1 | 21,219 | |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 69-74-73-71=287 | ||||
| Koumei Oda | 69-77-74-67=287 | ||||
| Kevin Stadler | 73-72-71-71=287 | ||||
| Henrik Stenson | 72-73-73-69=287 | ||||
| Brendon Todd | 73-73-74-67=287 | ||||
| Marc Warren | 71-68-72-76=287 | ||||
| Gary Woodland | 75-69-72-71=287 | ||||
| T47 | Grégory Bourdy | 75-69-74-70=288 | E | 16,013 | |
| Paul Casey | 74-71-73-70=288 | ||||
| Stewart Cink (c) | 71-75-73-69=288 | ||||
| Zach Johnson | 71-75-71-71=288 | ||||
| T51 | Jason Dufner | 70-74-74-71=289 | +1 | 14,650 | |
| Bill Haas | 70-72-73-74=289 | ||||
| Tom Watson (c) | 73-73-75-68=289 | ||||
| T54 | Matt Jones | 71-74-72-73=290 | +2 | 13,925 | |
| Matt Kuchar | 73-71-74-72=290 | ||||
| Kevin Na | 76-70-70-74=290 | ||||
| Kevin Streelman | 72-74-69-75=290 | ||||
| T58 | Jason Day | 73-73-74-71=291 | +3 | 13,350 | |
| Jamie McLeary | 73-73-75-70=291 | ||||
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| McIlroy | −17 | −17 | −17 | −17 | −16 | −15 | −15 | −15 | −16 | −17 | −17 | −17 | −16 | −16 | −16 | −17 | −17 | −17 |
| Fowler | −10 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −15 |
| García | −10 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −15 |
| Furyk | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −13 |
| Leishman | −5 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −8 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −12 |
| Scott | −6 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −7 | −7 | −8 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −12 |
| Eagle | Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey |
References
- (a) – indicates the player was an amateur.
- (R) – indicates a golfer who came through Regional Qualifying.
- Sunningdale replaced Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club after it received significant damage following winter storms.
- Olesen replaced Charles Howell III.
- Ishikawa replaced Steve Stricker.
- Fisher replaced Mark O'Meara.
- Hearn replaced Mark Calcavecchia.
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