1971 British Open: 100th Winner
The 1971 British Open was the 100th time the tournament was played and Lee Trevino was the centennial champion.
Winner: Lee Trevino, 278
Where it was played: Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England
Tournament dates: July 7-10, 1971
Leader after first round: Howie Johnson, Tony Jacklin, Lee Trevino and Vicente Fernandez, 69
Leader after second round: Lee Trevino and Tony Jacklin, 139
Leader after third round: Lee Trevino, 208
Notable Notes: Lee Trevino completed a great 3-tournament run by winning here, his victory by one stroke over Taiwan's Lu Liang-Huan. A month earlier Trevino won the 1971 U.S. Open in a playoff over Jack Nicklaus; then he won the Canadian Open, and then the British Open. He was the first golfer to win all three of those national championships in the same year.
Final Scores
| Lee Trevino | 69-70-69-70—278 |
| Liang-Huan Lu | 70-70-69-70—279 |
| Tony Jacklin | 69-70-70-71—280 |
| Craig Defoy | 72-72-68-69—281 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 71-71-72-69—283 |
| Charles Coody | 74-71-70-68—283 |
| Gary Player | 71-70-71-72—284 |
| Billy Casper | 70-72-75-67—284 |
| Peter Thomson | 70-73-73-69—285 |
| Doug Sanders | 73-71-74-67—285 |
| Ramon Sota | 72-72-70-73—287 |
| Harry Bannerman | 73-71-72-71—287 |
| Roberto De Vicenzo | 71-70-72-74—287 |
| Dave Stockton | 74-74-68-71—287 |
| Kel Nagle | 70-75-73-69—287 |
| Bert Yancey | 75-70-71-71—287 |
| Dale Hayes | 71-72-70-75—288 |
| Peter Oosterhuis | 76-71-66-76—289 |
| Bob Charles | 77-71-71-70—289 |
| Bernard Hunt | 74-73-73-70—290 |
| Howie Johnson | 69-76-72-73—290 |
| Hugh Jackson | 71-73-72-75—291 |
| a-Michael Bonallack | 71-72-75-73—291 |
| Neil Coles | 76-72-72-71—291 |
| Peter Butler | 73-73-73-73—292 |
| Brian Huggett | 73-73-74-72—292 |
| Doug Sewell | 73-74-74-71—292 |
| John Lister | 74-71-74-73—292 |
| Bill Large | 73-75-73-71—292 |
| Randall Vines | 75-71-73-73—292 |
| Malcolm Gregson | 71-71-73-77—292 |
| Vicente Fernandez | 69-79-73-71—292 |
| Guy Wolstenholme | 75-72-73-73—293 |
| Min Nan Hsieh | 77-70-74-72—293 |
| Christy O'Connor Sr. | 74-72-76-72—294 |
| John Garner | 76-74-71-73—294 |
| Bruce Devlin | 74-71-75-75—295 |
| Bernard Gallacher | 72-76-75-72—295 |
| Tommy Horton | 70-72-79-74—295 |
| Peter Townsend | 73-75-75-73—296 |
| Tom Weiskopf | 75-73-75-73—296 |
| John O'Leary | 70-75-75-76—296 |
| Eric Brown | 75-72-72-77—296 |
| Lionel Platts | 78-72-73-73—296 |
| Walter Godfrey | 72-79-71-74—296 |
| Jimmy Kinsella | 74-68-80-74—296 |
| Peter Alliss | 74-76-72-75—297 |
| Johnny Miller | 72-76-70-79—297 |
| Jack Wilkshire | 75-71-76-76—298 |
| Bobby Locke | 75-73-74-76—298 |
| a-Steve Melnyk | 76-74-74-74—298 |
| Valentin Barrios | 72-74-77-75—298 |
| Jack Newton | 73-72-76-77—298 |
| John Sharkey | 73-75-72-78—298 |
| Tienie Britz | 73-78-73-74—298 |
| a-Donald Swaelens | 75-73-72-78—298 |
| Graham Marsh | 75-73-72-79—299 |
| David Snell | 75-75-74-76—300 |
| Brian Waites | 70-79-72-79—300 |
| Maurice Bembridge | 75-73-76-77—301 |
| Miller Barber | 71-74-77-79—301 |
| Roger Manning | 73-72-76-80—301 |
| David Talbot | 77-72-75-78—302 |
| Brian Barnes | 76-75-73-79—303 |