1969 British Open Winner and Scores
The 1969 British Open was the 98th time the tournament was played. And the champion was the first British golfer to claim the title since 1951.
Winner: Tony Jacklin, 280
Where it was played: Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lytham St. Annes, England
Tournament dates: July 9-12, 1969
Leader after first round: Bob Charles, 66
Leader after second round: Bob Charles, 135
Leader after third round: Tony Jacklin, 208
What Happened in the 1969 Open Championship
Englishman Tony Jacklin won the 1969 British Open, becoming the first British winner since Max Faulkner in the 1951 British Open. (Faulkner made the cut and tied for 30th here — the last time he made the cut in the Open.)Jacklin took the lead away from Bob Charles — the leader after both the first and second rounds — following the third round, when he shot 70 to Charles' 75. That gave Jacklin a 2-stroke edge heading into the final round, and he maintained at least that margin over Charles to the end. Charles, winner of the 1963 British Open, fell three back of Jacklin with a bogey on the 14th. Jacklin bogeyed the 15th, but then Charles did, too. When Jacklin bogeyed the 17th, his lead was back down to two. But Jacklin pounded a drive down the middle on the 18th hole and parred out for the victory.
Charles, for the second year in a row, finished second; Roberto De Vicenzo and 5-time British Open winner Peter Thomson tied for third.
One of the golfers in the Top 10 was Davis Love Jr., father of future PGA Championship winner Davis Love III. Love was a club pro who played his way into more than a dozen majors from 1955 to 1974. His tie for sixth in the 1969 British Open was his best finish in those majors.
Another Top 10 finish was recorded by Peter Alliss. Alliss' eighth-place showing here was the last of his five Top 10 finishes in the Open Championship.
Jacklin went on to win the 1970 U.S. Open. There wasn't another British winner of the Open Championship until Sandy Lyle in 1985.
1969 British Open Final Scores
| Tony Jacklin | 68-70-70-72—280 |
| Bob Charles | 66-69-75-72—282 |
| Roberto De Vicenzo | 72-73-66-72—283 |
| Peter Thomson | 71-70-70-72—283 |
| Christy O'Connor | 71-65-74-74—284 |
| Davis Love Jr. | 70-73-71-71—285 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 75-70-68-72—285 |
| Peter Alliss | 73-74-73-66—286 |
| Kel Nagle | 74-71-72-70—287 |
| Miller Barber | 69-75-75-69—288 |
| Neil Coles | 75-76-70-68—289 |
| Tommy Horton | 71-76-70-72—289 |
| Cobie Legrange | 79-70-71-69—289 |
| Guy Wolstenholme | 70-71-76-72—289 |
| Gay Brewer | 76-71-68-75—290 |
| Eric Brown | 73-76-69-73—291 |
| Bruce Devlin | 71-73-75-72—291 |
| Harold Henning | 72-71-75-73—291 |
| Brian Huggett | 72-72-69-78—291 |
| Orville Moody | 71-70-74-76—291 |
| Peter Townsend | 73-70-76-72—291 |
| Bert Yancey | 72-71-71-77—291 |
| Bernard Hunt | 73-71-75-73—292 |
| Gary Player | 74-68-76-74—292 |
| Fred Boobyer | 74-70-76-73—293 |
| Billy Casper | 70-70-75-78—293 |
| Alex Caygill | 71-67-79-76—293 |
| Hedley Muscroft | 68-77-73-76—294 |
| a-Peter Tupling | 73-71-78-72—294 |
| Max Faulkner | 71-74-76-74—295 |
| Jean Garaialde | 69-77-76-73—295 |
| Mike Ingham | 73-73-74-75—295 |
| Donald Swaelens | 72-73-76-74—295 |
| Gordon Cunningham | 74-72-71-79—296 |
| Raymond Floyd | 74-70-76-76—296 |
| John Garner | 72-71-76-77—296 |
| Vincent Hood | 75-71-74-76—296 |
| Lee Trevino | 75-72-71-78—296 |
| Brian Waites | 73-75-74-74—296 |
| Brian Barnes | 73-73-76-75—297 |
| Jimmy Hitchcock | 74-74-73-76—297 |
| a-Michael Bonallack | 74-72-73-79—298 |
| Angel Gallardo | 72-76-73-77—298 |
| Peter Wilcock | 73-74-74-77—298 |
| John Panton | 73-69-76-82—300 |
| Hugh Jackson | 69-78-75-79—301 |
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