1907 British Open Winner and Scores
Winner: Arnaud Massy, 312
Where it was played: Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England
Tournament dates: June 20-21, 1907
Leader after first round: Arnaud Massy and Walter Toogood, 76
Leader after second round: Arnaud Massy, 157
Leader after third round: J.H. Taylor, 234
What Happened in the 1907 Open Championship
Arnaud Massy won the 1907 British Open, and it was a significant victory in multiple ways:- He was the first French golfer to win the British Open.
- He was the first non-British golfer to win the Open.
- He was the first golfer from continental Europe to win the Open.
Massy was not a one-hit wonder: He finished in the Top 10 at the British Open 10 times, the first in 1902 and last in 1921. He was runner-up at the 1911 British Open, losing in a playoff. Massy also has the distinction of winning three different national championships in the very first years they were played: the French Open (1906), Belgian Open (1911) and Spanish Open (1912).
Massy held the lead after both the first and second rounds, but after a 78 in Round 3 he trailed J.H. Taylor by a stroke entering the final round.
But Taylor carded a final-round 80 to Massy's 77, producing a 2-stroke victory for Massy. That was typical scoring for this era; the lowest round of the tournament was Harry Vardon's 74 in Round 3. (Harry's brother Tom Vardon finished tied for third.) Taylor was runner-up for the fourth consecutive year, but he also won five Opens so don't feel too bad for him.
James Braid, going for his third consecutive victory, finished tied for fifth, six strokes behind Massy.
The 1907 Open was the first one at which all golfers had to play qualifying rounds to get into the tournament.
1907 British Open Final Scores
| Arnaud Massy | 76-81-78-77—312 |
| J.H. Taylor | 79-79-76-80—314 |
| George Pulford | 81-78-80-78—317 |
| Tom Vardon | 81-81-80-75—317 |
| James Braid | 82-85-75-76—318 |
| Ted Ray | 83-80-79-76—318 |
| George Duncan | 83-78-81-77—319 |
| Harry Vardon | 84-81-74-80—319 |
| Tom Williamson | 82-77-82-78—319 |
| Tom Ball | 80-78-81-81—320 |
| Phillip Gaudin | 83-84-80-76—323 |
| Sandy Herd | 83-81-83-77—324 |
| a-John Graham Jr. | 83-81-80-82—326 |
| Walter Toogood | 76-86-82-82—326 |
| John Ball Jr. | 88-83-79-77—327 |
| Fred Collins | 83-83-79-82—327 |
| Alfred Matthews | 82-80-84-82—328 |
| Charles Mayo | 86-78-82-82—328 |
| Thomas Renouf | 83-80-82-83—328 |
| Reginald Gray | 83-85-81-80—329 |
| James Bradbeer | 83-85-82-80—330 |
| George Carter | 89-80-81-80—330 |
| Jack Rowe | 83-83-85-80—331 |
| Alfred Toogood | 87-83-85-77—332 |
| Harry Kidd | 84-90-82-77—333 |
| David McEwan | 89-83-80-81—333 |
| Charles Roberts | 86-83-84-80—333 |
| Alex Smith | 85-84-84-80—333 |
| James Kinnell | 89-79-80-86—334 |
| John Oke | 86-85-82-81—334 |
| a-Herbert Barker | 89-81-82-83—335 |
| Harry Cawsey | 85-93-77-80—335 |
| William McEwan | 79-89-85-82—335 |
| a-Charles Dick | 85-83-82-86—336 |
| James Hepburn | 80-88-79-89—336 |
| James Edmundson | 85-86-82-84—337 |
| Ernest Gaudin | 88-88-82-80—338 |
| Wilfred Reid | 85-87-82-84—338 |
| Robert Thomson | 86-87-85-80—338 |
| Albert Tingey | 87-84-88-79—338 |
| Ernest Gray | 87-84-83-85—339 |
| William Horne | 91-80-81-87—339 |
| Peter McEwan | 85-85-88-81—339 |
| Arthur Mitchell | 94-83-81-81—339 |
| Charles Corlett | 90-83-82-85—340 |
| Ben Sayers Jr. | 89-85-83-84—341 |
| Fred Leach | 88-87-86-81—342 |
| Ben Sayers Sr. | 86-83-86-87—342 |
| Philip Wynne | 90-83-85-84—342 |
| John D. Edgar | 86-88-82-87—343 |
| Harry Hamill | 86-87-84-86—343 |
| Peter Rainford | 85-84-87-87—343 |
| John W. Taylor | 90-92-81-81—344 |
| James Kay | 87-84-91-84—346 |
| Frank Larke | 91-86-84-86—347 |
| William Lewis | 93-91-80-87—351 |
| William MacNamara | 87-89-88-87—351 |
| Ernest Risebro | 90-92-87-82—351 |
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