1922 British Open Winner and Scores
Winner: Walter Hagen, 300
Where it was played: Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England
Tournament dates: June 22-23, 1922
Leader after first round: Ted Ray and J.H. Taylor, 73
Leader after second round: Walter Hagen, 149
Leader after third round: Jock Hutchison, 226
What Happened at the 1922 Open Championship
It took until the 1922 British Open before a golfer born in the United States won golf's oldest championship, and Walter Hagen was the man who did it. Hagen was already a three-time major winner, and he went on to win this tournament three more times (and 11 majors total in his career).Hagen's final-round 72 was one stroke better than Jim Barnes' round, and that was the margin between the two golfers in the championship. George Duncan closed with a 69 to tie Barnes for second behind Hagen.
It wasn't the first time Hagen denied Barnes a major. One year earlier, in the finals of the 1921 PGA Championship, Hagen beat Barnes 3 and 2 for the title. (Barnes finally got his own Open Championship title in 1925.)
Hagen was the second American victor in a row. But how can that be when he was also the first golfer born in the USA to win? Defending champ Jock Hutchison was a Scotland native but a naturalized American citizen. (Hutchison was the 54-hole leader this year and finished fourth after shooting 76 in the final round.)
The final-round 69 by Duncan, the 1920 British Open winner, was the lowest score of the tournament. But, after an 81 in the third round, Duncan started too far back and finished tied for second with Barnes.
Two members of Britain's famed "Great Triumvirate" — 51-year-old J.H. Taylor (sixth) and 52-year-old Harry Vardon (tied eighth) — finished in the Top 10, the last time that happened in an Open.
1922 British Open Final Scores
| Walter Hagen | 76-73-79-72—300 |
| Jim Barnes | 75-76-77-73—301 |
| George Duncan | 76-75-81-69—301 |
| Jock Hutchison | 79-74-73-76—302 |
| Charles Whitcombe | 77-79-72-75—303 |
| J.H. Taylor | 73-78-76-77—304 |
| Jean Gassiat | 75-78-74-79—306 |
| Harry Vardon | 79-79-74-75—307 |
| Thomas Walton | 75-78-77-77—307 |
| Percy Alliss | 75-78-78-77—308 |
| Charles Johns | 78-76-80-75—309 |
| George Gadd | 76-81-76-77—310 |
| Arthur Havers | 78-80-78-74—310 |
| Len Holland | 79-81-74-76—310 |
| F.C. Jewell | 75-80-78-77—310 |
| Ernest Whitcombe | 77-78-77-78—310 |
| Aubrey Boomer | 75-80-76-80—311 |
| Adrian Wheildon | 80-80-76-75—311 |
| Abe Mitchell | 79-79-78-76—312 |
| Joe Kirkwood | 79-76-80-78—313 |
| Herbert Osborne | 80-81-76-76—313 |
| a-Michael Scott | 77-83-79-74—313 |
| a-Willie Hunter | 77-81-75-81—314 |
| Tom King Jr. | 83-78-78-75—314 |
| Walter Pursey | 77-81-80-76—314 |
| William Smith | 81-78-74-81—314 |
| Archie Compston | 81-79-75-80—315 |
| Gus Faulkner | 74-81-80-81—316 |
| Arthur Monk | 80-78-78-80—316 |
| William Watt | 82-78-79-77—316 |
| Tom Williamson | 83-77-75-81—316 |
| Harry Ball | 78-82-77-80—317 |
| Sandy Herd | 76-79-83-79—317 |
| James McKenzie | 78-81-80-78—317 |
| a-Roger Wethered | 76-78-83-80—317 |
| Fred Leach | 82-79-79-78—318 |
| Reginald G. Wilson | 75-84-82-77—318 |
| Arthur Butchart | 83-74-85-77—319 |
| Angel De la Torre | 83-80-81-75—319 |
| Claude Gray | 76-82-80-81—319 |
| a-Robert Harris | 80-83-74-82—319 |
| Andrew Kay | 82-81-78-78—319 |
| Albert Hallam | 83-83-77-77—320 |
| Thomas Renouf | 85-78-77-80—320 |
| a-Cyril Tolley | 87-80-78-75—320 |
| Charles Corlett | 81-82-78-80—321 |
| Ted Ray | 73-83-85-80—321 |
| Hugh Williamson | 80-82-83-76—321 |
| Charles McIlvenny | 80-82-77-83—322 |
| William Oke | 91-80-77-74—322 |
| George Kirby | 84-81-80-78—323 |
| Percy Rainford | 79-86-81-77—323 |
| Sid Brews | 81-83-80-80—324 |
| G.R. Buckle | 76-85-81-82—324 |
| Tom Fernie | 81-80-81-82—324 |
| William Twine | 80-81-83-80—324 |
| James Martin | 82-83-81-79—325 |
| Alfred Miles | 75-86-81-83—325 |
| Roy Donald | 85-80-80-81—326 |
| Rowland Jones | 81-90-81-75—327 |
| a-Ernest Carter | 81-84-79-84—328 |
| John Fernie | 81-88-80-79—328 |
| a-Angus Hambro | 84-82-83-79—328 |
| Mark Seymour | 78-88-82-80—328 |
| a-E.H.W. Scott | 87-77-83-82—329 |
| Joseph Cheal | 87-80-82-81—330 |
| Jack B. Ross | 80-84-82-84—330 |
| Percy Wyatt | 81-83-85-81—330 |
| a-E. Noel Layton | 85-84-84-78—331 |
| William Ritchie | 80-85-83-84—332 |
| Eddie Goodban | 84-82-86-81—333 |
| Henry Kinch | 80-89-86-78—333 |
| Harry Amos | 89-85-83-78—335 |
| Fred Jarman | 86-84-86-82—338 |
| C.H. Reith | 84-87-84-84—339 |
| C.W. Thomson | 82-90-84-84—340 |
| Walter Bourne | 81-89-86-86—342 |
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