1995 British Open: Daly Affirmation
Winner: John Daly, 282
Where it was played: The Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland
Tournament dates: July 20-23, 1995
Leader after first round: John Daly, Mark McNulty, Ben Crenshaw and Tom Watson, 67
Leader after second round: John Daly, Brad Faxon and Kasuyoshi Tomori, 138
Leader after third round: Michael Campbell, 207
Notable Notes: John Daly shared the lead the first two rounds, but a third-round 72 dropped him four strokes off the lead of Michael Campbell, and two behind second-place Constantino Rocca. In the final round, Campbell shot 76 and fell into a tie for second, while Daly and Rocca wound up tied at 282.
Daly appeared to have won it on the final hole when Rocca, who needed a birdie to tie, badly flubbed a chip shot to the green. But then Rocca improbably rolled in a 65-foot putt through the Valley of Sin, forcing the playoff. In the 4-hole, aggregate-score playoff, Daly was two ahead through two holes when Rocca triple-bogied the third hole.
Something else of note that happened here: Tiger Woods made his first cut in a major championship. Playing as an amateur, he tied for 68th.
Final Scores
| p-John Daly | 67-71-73-71—282 |
| Costantino Rocca | 69-70-70-73—282 |
| Steven Bottomley | 70-72-72-69—283 |
| Mark Brooks | 70-69-73-71—283 |
| Michael Campbell | 71-71-65-76—283 |
| Vijay Singh | 68-72-73-71—284 |
| Steve Elkington | 72-69-69-74—284 |
| Corey Pavin | 69-70-72-74—285 |
| Mark James | 72-75-68-70—285 |
| Bob Estes | 72-70-71-72—285 |
| Ernie Els | 71-68-72-75—286 |
| Brett Ogle | 73-69-71-73—286 |
| Sam Torrance | 71-70-71-74—286 |
| Payne Stewart | 72-68-75-71—286 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 67-72-76-72—287 |
| Brad Faxon | 71-67-75-74—287 |
| Greg Norman | 71-74-72-70—287 |
| Robert Allenby | 71-74-71-71—287 |
| Per-Ulrik Johansson | 69-78-68-72—287 |
| Peter Mitchell | 73-74-71-70—288 |
| David Duval | 71-75-70-72—288 |
| Andrew Coltart | 70-74-71-73—288 |
| Barry Lane | 72-73-68-75—288 |
| Katsuyoshi Tomori | 70-68-73-78—289 |
| Bill Glasson | 68-74-72-75—289 |
| Jesper Parnevik | 75-71-70-73—289 |
| Bernhard Langer | 72-71-73-73—289 |
| a-Steve Webster | 70-72-74-73—289 |
| Mark Calcavecchia | 71-72-72-74—289 |
| Lee Janzen | 73-73-71-72—289 |
| Hisayuki Sasaki | 74-71-72-73—290 |
| Darren Clark | 69-77-70-74—290 |
| John Huston | 71-74-72-73—290 |
| David Feherty | 68-75-71-76—290 |
| David Frost | 72-72-74-72—290 |
| Ross Drummond | 74-68-77-71—290 |
| Jose Maria Olazabal | 72-72-74-72—290 |
| Peter Jacobsen | 71-76-70-73—290 |
| Tom Watson | 67-76-70-77—290 |
| a-Warren Bennett | 72-74-73-72—291 |
| Gordon Sherry | 70-71-74-76—291 |
| Mark McNulty | 67-76-74-74—291 |
| Nick Price | 70-74-70-77—291 |
| Nick Faldo | 74-67-75-75—291 |
| Seve Ballesteros | 75-69-76-71—291 |
| Phil Mickelson | 70-71-77-73—291 |
| Brian Watts | 72-71-73-75—291 |
| John Cook | 69-70-75-77—291 |
| Ken Green | 71-72-73-76—292 |
| Tommy Nakajima | 73-72-72-75—292 |
| Brian Claar | 71-75-71-75—292 |
| Anders Forsbrand | 70-74-75-73—292 |
| Mark O'Meara | 72-72-75-73—292 |
| Ian Woosnam | 71-74-76-71—292 |
| Russell Claydon | 70-74-71-78—293 |
| Peter O'Malley | 71-73-74-75—293 |
| Jim Gallagher Jr. | 69-76-75-73—293 |
| Paul Lawrie | 73-71-74-76—294 |
| Martin Gates | 73-73-72-76—294 |
| Eduardo Herrera | 74-72-73-75—294 |
| Raymond Floyd | 72-74-72-76—294 |
| Paul Broadhurst | 73-72-76-73—294 |
| Justin Leonard | 73-67-77-77—294 |
| David Gilford | 69-72-75-78—294 |
| Derrick Cooper | 71-76-74-73—294 |
| Tom Kite | 72-76-71-75—294 |
| Peter Senior | 71-75-78-70—294 |
| Jose Rivero | 70-72-75-78—295 |
| Gary Player | 71-73-77-74—295 |
| Gary Hallberg | 72-74-72-77—295 |
| a-Tiger Woods | 74-71-72-78—295 |
| Mats Hallberg | 68-76-75-76—295 |
| Peter Baker | 70-74-81-70—295 |
| Frank Nobilo | 70-71-80-74—295 |
| Scott Hoch | 74-72-73-76—295 |
| Jonathan Lomas | 74-73-75-73—295 |
| Olle Karlsson | 71-76-73-75—295 |
| Jeff Maggert | 75-70-78-72—295 |
| Dean Robertson | 71-73-74-78—296 |
| Ricky Kawagishi | 72-76-80-68—296 |
| Jarmo Sandelin | 75-71-77-73—296 |
| Steve Lowery | 69-74-76-77—296 |
| Bob Lohr | 76-68-79-73—296 |
| Jay Haas | 76-72-70-78—296 |
| Patrick Burke | 75-72-78-71—296 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 78-70-77-71—296 |
| Sandy Lyle | 71-71-79-75—296 |
| Eduardo Romero | 74-74-72-77—297 |
| Wayne Riley | 70-72-75-80—297 |
| Mark Davis | 74-71-76-76—297 |
| Jay Delsing | 72-75-73-77—297 |
| Miguel Angel Jimenez | 75-73-76-73—297 |
| Gene Sauers | 69-73-75-80—297 |
| John Hawksworth | 73-74-75-76—298 |
| Bill Longmuir | 72-76-72-78—298 |
| Jose Coceres | 71-76-78-74—299 |
| Lee Westwood | 71-72-82-74—299 |
| Davis Love III | 70-78-74-78—300 |
| Simon Burnell | 72-76-75-77—300 |
| a-Gary Clarke | 71-76-80-74—301 |
| Don Pooley | 76-71-80-75—302 |
| Mark Nichols | 75-68-78-81—302 |
| Pedro Linhart | 72-75-77-79—303 |
