"behind the winner Larry Nelson. The following month in July 1983, Watson won his fifth Open Championship and the last of his eight majors at Royal Birkdale, his only Open victory on English soil. (His four other titles came in Scotland.) In 1984, Watson finished runner-up for the third time at the Masters, finishing two strokes behind the champion Ben Crenshaw. Watson had three Tour wins in 1984, including his third victory in the Western Open after a playoff against Greg Norman. A fortnight later in the 1984 Open Championship at St Andrews, Watson was in contention during the final"
"in 1976 Open Championship)<br> ""T"" indicates a tie for a place. Defeated Mason in a playoff with par at the second extra hole. ""Results not in chronological order before 2017."" ""Note: The Senior British Open was not a Champions Tour major until 2003.""<br> CUT = missed the halfway cut<br> ""T"" indicates a tie for a place Professional Watson is a member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects and has designed golf courses through his Tom Watson Design company in Kansas. Tom Watson (golfer) Thomas Sturges Watson (born September 4, 1949) is an American professional golfer on the PGA"
"Championship in 2008. In 2009, 59-year-old Tom Watson turned in one of the most remarkable performances ever seen at The Open. Leading the tournament through 71 holes and needing just a par on the last hole to become the oldest ever winner of a major championship, Watson bogeyed, setting up a four-hole playoff, which he would lose to Stewart Cink. In 2013, Phil Mickelson won his first Open Championship at Muirfield. His victory meant that he had won 3 of the 4 majors in pursuit of the career grand slam, just needing the U.S. Open, where he has finished runner-up"
"Tom Watson in 1977 and 1978. In the 1980s a notable leader was in 1987, when Ben Crenshaw was top of this compilation after finishing 4th, 4th, 4th and 7th in the four majors. In total Crenshaw took 1,140 strokes, only 12 more than the sum total of the four respective champions' scores of 1,128. Recent 'winners' of this accolade are Pádraig Harrington in 2008, Ross Fisher in 2009, Phil Mickelson in 2010, Charl Schwartzel in 2011, and Adam Scott in 2012. In 2013, Scott and fellow Australian Jason Day tied for this accolade with a cumulative score of +2."
"1982 Open Championship The 1982 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 111th Open Championship, held from 15–18 July at Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Tom Watson won his fourth Open Championship, one stroke ahead of runners-up Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price. It was Watson's second consecutive major victory; he won the U.S. Open a month earlier, and the seventh of his eight major titles. Watson became the fifth to win the U.S. Open and the Open Championship in the same year, joining fellow Americans Bobby Jones (1926, 1930), Gene Sarazen (1932), Ben Hogan (1953),"
"The Open since Tom Watson in 1975. Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950): Stuart Appleby (4), Thomas Bjørn (4,5,18), Steve Elkington, Ernie Els (2,3,4,5,10,14), Gary Evans, Sergio García (4,5,18,14), Retief Goosen (4,5,10,14), Søren Hansen (5), Pádraig Harrington (4,5,18), Justin Leonard (2,3,4,14), Thomas Levet, Peter Lonard (4,22), Davis Love III (4,13,18), Shigeki Maruyama (4,14), Peter O'Malley (22), Nick Price (2,3,4,14) John Daly (3), David Duval (3,18), Paul Lawrie (3,4,5), Tom Lehman (3), Greg Norman (3), Mark O'Meara (3), Tiger Woods (3,4,10,11,12,13,14,18) Mark Calcavecchia (18), Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson Robert Allenby (14), Rich Beem (12,14), Ángel Cabrera"
"Tom Watson (golfer) Thomas Sturges Watson (born September 4, 1949) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour Champions, formerly on the PGA Tour. In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading players in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times. He was the number one player in the world according to McCormack's World Golf Rankings from 1978 until 1982; in both 1983 and 1984, he was ranked second behind Seve Ballesteros. He also spent 32 weeks in the top 10 of the successor Sony Rankings in their"
"play-off with Watson for the tournament. At age 33, this was Watson's eighth and final major title; he had won three of the last six majors, but had not won any event for twelve months. Watson was the fifth to win five Open Championships, last accomplished in 1965 by Peter Thomson, also at Royal Birkdale. He was the first to successfully defend the title in over a decade, since Lee Trevino in 1972 at Muirfield. Of his five Open wins, this was the only one outside Scotland. Seven years earlier at Royal Birkdale in 1976, defending champion Watson posted an"
"2009 Open Championship The 2009 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 138th Open Championship, held from 16–19 July at the Ailsa Course of the Turnberry Resort, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Stewart Cink won his only major championship to date (2018) after a four-hole playoff with Tom Watson. At age 59, Watson had the chance to win his sixth Open and become the oldest major champion in history during regulation play, but was unable to par the final hole and tied with Cink. It was the fourth Open at Turnberry; the previous winners were Watson (1977), Greg Norman"
"for the longest time span between first and last playoffs on the PGA Tour. That time span is 34 years, 6 days. Watson won the 1975 Open Championship in an 18-hole playoff and 34 years later lost a playoff for the 2009 Open Championship. Due to his performance in 2009 and early 2010, along with his 1982 U.S. Open victory at Pebble Beach, the USGA awarded Watson a special exemption to the 2010 U.S. Open. He finished the tournament tied for 29th. Watson is the only golfer to participate in all major professional championships contested at Pebble Beach: 1972, 1982,"
"major (and only Open) in 1994, a single stroke ahead of runner-up Jesper Parnevik. After a fifteen-year absence, the Ailsa Course hosted the Open in 2009, where 59-year-old Watson nearly won his sixth Open Championship. Up by a stroke at the 72nd hole, his approach shot took an unfortunate bounce on the front of the green, then ran off the back and led to a bogey. Watson then lost a four-hole playoff with Stewart Cink by six strokes; Cink birdied the 72nd hole and then posted two pars and two birdies in the playoff to win his only major title."
"1992, 2000, and 2010 U.S. Opens, and the 1977 PGA Championship. Watson got an ace on the 6th hole during the second round of the 2011 Open Championship. It was the second ace of the week after Dustin Johnson got one on 16 the day before. In an interview in 2012, Watson admitted that he was ""distraught"" at coming so close to becoming the oldest Major winner at the age of 59 and said that the experience in the 2009 British Open ""tore his guts out"". Watson said of his approach shot to the green at the 72nd hole, when"
"Tom Watson defeats Jack Nicklaus by one stroke in the British Open, at Turnberry. They were tied with each other after two rounds, and played together for the final 36 holes, during which they shot 65–65, and 65–66, respectively. Runner-up Nicklaus finished ten shots clear of third place. Chako Higuchi of Japan wins the LPGA Championship, making her the first Asian-born golfer to win a major championship. 1978 The Legends of Golf is inaugurated at Onion Creek C.C. in Austin, Texas. Its popularity leads to the formation of the Senior PGA Tour two years later. Gary Player, aged 43, wins"
"1977 (twice), 1994 and 2009 (all 65s at the Open were scored at Turnberry). Finally at the PGA Championship, Watson's low score of the 1970s was a 66 in 1979. In the 1980s he scored a 67 in 1980, 1983, 1985, and 1989. His low PGA score is a 65 in 1993 & 2000. Watson also sets a record for having a round of 65 or less in at least one of the majors in 4 different decades. 1970s: 1977 British Open (65 in rounds 3 and 4), 1980s: 1980 British Open (64 in round 3), 1990s: 1993 PGA Championship"
"the only golfer to score a round of 67 or less in all 4 majors at least once in 4 different decades. His best round in the Masters is a 67. His first 67 came in 1977. Other 67s were scored in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. His most recent 67 at Augusta was his opening round in 2010. His US Open low score is a 65. He scored 65 in 1987 and 2003, 66 in 1993 and he first shot 67 in 1975. At the British Open, Watson's low score is a 64 in 1980. 65s were scored in"
"Poxon (+19), Crosby (+22). ""Saturday, 17 July 1982"" Amateurs: ""Lewis (+5)"". ""Sunday, 18 July 1982"" Amateurs: Lewis (+12)<br> 1982 Open Championship The 1982 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 111th Open Championship, held from 15–18 July at Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Tom Watson won his fourth Open Championship, one stroke ahead of runners-up Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price. It was Watson's second consecutive major victory; he won the U.S. Open a month earlier, and the seventh of his eight major titles. Watson became the fifth to win the U.S. Open and the Open"
"final live telecast was the 2009 Open Championship, in which Tom Watson nearly won the championship at the age of 59. Watson had worked for ABC as a guest analyst at the previous year's Open and had been scheduled to do so again. ESPN moved all live golf coverage to cable in 2010, with ABC being relegated to carrying a three-hour encore presentation of the day's Open Championship rounds starting at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. ESPN reorganized the broadcast team for its coverage that year with several additions and changes, however Tirico and Azinger remained the lead announcers through the"
"(65 in round 2), and 2000s: 2000 PGA Championship (65 in round 3). Watson's 67 in the first round at the 2010 Masters also gives him a record to be the only person to have at least one round of 67 or less in any of the four majors in five different decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s). Watson joined the Champions Tour in 1999, the same year he earned an honorary membership of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in Scotland. He has 14 wins on the Champions Tour, including six senior majors, while playing"
"1975 Open Championship The 1975 Open Championship was the 104th Open Championship, played 9–13 July at Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland. In his first Open, Tom Watson won an 18-hole playoff by one stroke over Jack Newton to win the first of his eight major titles, which included five Open Championships. After three days of calm weather, the wind kicked up during the final round on Saturday and scores went up. Bobby Cole, the leader at 54 holes after back-to-back rounds of 66, shot a four-over 76 and missed the playoff by a stroke. Watson managed an even-par 72, capped"
"and Player. Watson is also regarded as one of the greatest links players of all time, a claim backed up by his five Open Championship victories; as well as his 2nd-place finish in the 2009 Open Championship, and his three Senior British Open Championship titles in his mid-50s (2003, 2005, and 2007). Watson played on four Ryder Cup teams and captained the American side to victory in 1993 at The Belfry in England. More than twenty years later, Watson again captained the U.S. Team in 2014 in Scotland, this time in a loss. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Watson was"
"championship until 2017. Floyd finished 1982 ranked second in Mark McCormack's world golf rankings, behind only Tom Watson who had won two majors that season; had those rankings been calculated over just two seasons, on a par with the system in place at the end of 2012, Floyd would have been ranked world number one in 1982, as he had earned more points from all events in total than Watson in both 1981 and 1982. Floyd's fourth and final major title came at the U.S. Open in 1986 at Shinnecock Hills. After three rounds, he was tied for fifth place,"
"listed below. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses. 1. Past Open Champions aged 60 or under on 18 July 2010 Mark Calcavecchia, Stewart Cink (2,5,6,16,20), Ben Curtis (2,4), John Daly, David Duval (2), Ernie Els (2,4,5,6,7,16,20), Nick Faldo, Todd Hamilton (2), Pádraig Harrington (2,4,6,7,14,16), Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard (4,5,20), Sandy Lyle, Mark O'Meara, Tom Watson (4,5), Tiger Woods (2,4,6,12,14,16,20) (Eligible but not playing: Ian Baker-Finch, Seve Ballesteros, Nick Price, Bill Rogers)<br> 2. The Open Champions for 2000–2009 3. Past Open Champions born between 17"
"Arnold Palmer (1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1994), Seve Ballesteros (1978, 1994), Gary Player (1981, 1983), Lee Trevino (1983, 1984), Hale Irwin (1990, 2002, 2003), Jack Nicklaus (1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000), Tom Watson (1993, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2010). Irwin won the 1990 U.S. Open after accepting a special exemption. In the 2016, a special exemption was extended to former champion Retief Goosen (2001, 2004). In 2018, a special exemption was extended to former U.S. Open champions Jim Furyk (2003) and Ernie Els (1994, 1997). The purse at the 2017 U.S. Open was $12 million, and the winner's"
"was not among them. He missed the cut and made an emotional walk across the Swilcan Bridge at twilight. In April 2016, he played in his final Masters. After saying in the lead up to the event that he 'couldn't compete' anymore, Watson missed the cut by two strokes. Despite no longer competing at the full Masters, Watson won the 2018 Masters Tournament Par-3 contest at the age of 68, the oldest ever to win the event. He demonstrated remarkable consistency by making at least one PGA Tour cut per year from 1971–2007, a streak of 37 years. Watson is"
"Cink (2,4), Darren Clarke (2,4,5,7), Ben Curtis (2,4), John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2,4,6,20), Todd Hamilton (2), Pádraig Harrington (2,4,14), Paul Lawrie (6,7), Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard (4), Sandy Lyle, Louis Oosthuizen (2,4,6,7), Tiger Woods (2,6,12,14,20) 2. The Open Champions for 2002–2011 3. Past Open Champions born between 22 July 1946 and 19 July 1948 4. Past Open Champions finishing in the top 10 and tying for 10th place in The Open Championship 2007–2011 Tom Watson 5. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2011 Open Championship Thomas Bjørn (6,7), Chad Campbell, Simon Dyson (6,7), Rickie"
"68 matched the low round of the day with Mickelson. Thomas Bjørn, eight years from his Open drama, produced another steady round to finish alone in fourth. Tom Watson, at 61 the oldest player to complete all four days at an Open, fired his third 72 of the week and finished in a tie for 22nd. Simon Dyson tied for 9th to take honours as the low Englishman. Amateurs: ""Lewis (+9), Uihlein (+12)"". ""Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par"" 2011 Open Championship The 2011 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 140th Open Championship, held from 14–17"
"Open at Riviera for a second time in three years, seeing off the challenge of Adam Scott and Jason Kokrak to win by one shot on 15-under-par. Watson did not chalk a win during the 2017 season, and missed the cut at three of the year's four majors (his only cut a T27 at The Open Championship). He had five top-10 finishes with more than $1.3 million in tour earnings. The 2018 season started with a T7 at the QBE Shootout in December 2017 marking the best of his first six starts. Watson returned to the winner's circle with a"
"Seve Ballesteros defeats Tom Watson in one of the most dramatic finishes ever at the British Open at St Andrews. As Ballesteros birdied the final hole to a huge roar from his adopted ""home"" fans, Watson pushed his approach at the famous 17th ""Road Hole"" through the green and against a wall, dropping a crucial shot. At the age of 44, Lee Trevino wins a sixth major championship, the PGA Championship. It is ten years since his last one. 48-year-old Gary Player is runner-up. 1985 Nancy Lopez sets the LPGA 72-hole record with 268 in the Henredon Classic. Bernhard Langer"
"the first player since John Ball in 1890 to win both the British Amateur and British Open in the same year. Returning to the United States with the first two jewels of the Grand Slam, he completed the feat by winning the U.S. Open in July and the U.S. Amateur in late September at Merion. Jones then retired from competitive golf at age 28 and never played in the Open Championship again; through 2016, he remains the last amateur to win it. Four-time winner and two-time defending champion Walter Hagen did not enter. Arnaud Massy, the 1907 champion, played in"
"the money list to Tom Watson. Nelson won 10 times on the PGA Tour, including three major championships. He earned his first major title at the 1981 PGA Championship, which he won by four strokes. In 1983, Nelson was victorious at the U.S. Open at Oakmont, coming from seven behind at the half-way point to defeat Tom Watson by a single shot. Nelson scored a U.S. Open record 65-67 over the last 36 holes at the difficult Oakmont course, which broke a 51-year Open record established by Gene Sarazen. His 10-under-par 132 record score has yet to be equaled. In"
"Els (2,3,4,5,14), Nick Faldo, Todd Hamilton (2), Pádraig Harrington (2,3,12), Paul Lawrie (5,6,17), Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard (3), Sandy Lyle, Mark O'Meara, Louis Oosthuizen (2,3,5,6,14), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,5,13,14,17) 2. The Open Champions for 2003–2012 3. The Open Champions finishing in the first 10 and tying for 10th place in The Open Championship 2008–2012 Tom Watson 4. First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2012 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes Thomas Aiken, Nicolas Colsaerts (5,6,17), Luke Donald (5,6,7,14,17), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (6), Dustin Johnson (5,14,17), Zach Johnson (5,14,17), Matt Kuchar (5,13,14,17), Graeme McDowell (5,6,10,17), Alexander"
"that after a three-year hiatus from fighting, Watson had signed a multi-fight contract with BAMMA. Tom Watson (fighter) Tom ""Kong"" Watson (born 13 July 1982) is an English mixed martial artist currently competing in the middleweight division of BAMMA. A professional competitor since 2006, he is the former BAMMA Middleweight Champion, the former UCMMA Middleweight Champion, and has also competed for the UFC, Cage Rage and the MFC. Watson began training when he was 16 years old and has an extensive boxing background, winning two awards, Amateur Boxing Standout 2006, a three-time ABA Southern Counties Champion, and Full Contact Unlicensed"
"Cink (4-3-4-3=14), Watson (5-3-7-5=20) CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> ""T"" = tied Cancelled due to September 11, 2001 attacks<br> QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play<br> ""T"" = tied<br> NT = No Tournament<br> Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009. Professional Stewart Cink Stewart Ernest Cink (born May 21, 1973) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2009 Open Championship, famously defeating 59 year-old Tom Watson in a four-hole aggregate playoff. He spent over 40 weeks in the top 10"