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 |