2000 Open Championship


The 2000 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 129th Open Championship, held from 20–23 July at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. Tiger Woods, 24, won his first Open Championship and fourth major title, eight strokes ahead of runners-up Thomas Bjørn and Ernie Els.
With the victory, Woods became the fifth golfer and also youngest ever to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Jack Nicklaus' record by two years. He would go on to complete the "Tiger Slam" – holding all four major championships simultaneously, as this Open Championship was preceded by the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links and then followed by the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club and the 2001 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.
At this Open, Woods also achieved the lowest 72-hole score in relation to par at −19, which was a record for all major championships for fifteen years, until Jason Day broke it at the PGA Championship in 2015 at twenty-under-par.
Woods became the sixth to win the U.S. Open and the Open Championship in the same year, joining fellow Americans Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino, and Tom Watson. Woods also became the second player after Nicklaus to win both an Open Championship at St Andrews and a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
It was the first Open Championship to be telecast in high-definition television in any country, being telecast in the United States by ABC Sports that year.

Course

Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship :

Made the cut

Missed the cut

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 20 July 2000
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Ernie Els66−6
T2Steve Flesch67−5
T2Tiger Woods67−5
T4Scott Dunlap68−4
T4Ian Garbutt68−4
T4Sergio García68−4
T4Pádraig Harrington68−4
T4Tom Lehman68−4
T4Shigeki Maruyama68−4
T4Dennis Paulson68−4

Second round

Friday, 21 July 2000
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Tiger Woods67-66=133−11
2David Toms69-67=136−8
T3Steve Flesch67-70=137−7
T3Sergio García68-69=137−7
T3Loren Roberts69-68=137−7
T6Thomas Bjørn69-69=138−6
T6Fred Couples70-68=138−6
T6Ernie Els66-72=138−6
T6Tom Lehman68-70=138−6
T6Phil Mickelson72-66=138−6

Amateurs: Ilonen, Donald, Rowe, Gossett.

Third round

Saturday, 22 July 2000
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Tiger Woods67-66-67=200−16
T2Thomas Bjørn69-69-68=206−10
T2David Duval70-70-66=206−10
T4Darren Clarke70-69-68=207-9
T4Loren Roberts69-68-70=207-9
T4David Toms69-67-71=207-9
T7Ernie Els66-72-70=208−8
T7Steve Flesch67-70-71=208−8
T7Tom Lehman68-70-70=208−8
T7Dennis Paulson68-71-69=208−8

Final round

Sunday, 23 July 2000
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Tiger Woods67-66-67-69=269−19500,000
T2Thomas Bjørn69-69-68-71=277−11245,000
T2Ernie Els66-72-70-69=277−11245,000
T4Tom Lehman68-70-70-70=278−10130,000
T4David Toms69-67-71-71=278−10130,000
6Fred Couples70-68-72-69=279−9100,000
T7Paul Azinger69-72-72-67=280−866,250
T7Darren Clarke70-69-68-73=280−866,250
T7Pierre Fulke69-72-70-69=280−866,250
T7Loren Roberts69-68-70-73=280−866,250

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Scorecard

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
EagleBirdieBogeyDouble bogey

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