1914 British Open Winner and Scores
Winner: Harry Vardon, 306
Where it was played: Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland
Tournament dates: June 18-19, 1914
Leader after first round: Harry Vardon, 73
Leader after second round: Harry Vardon, 150
Leader after third round: J.H. Taylor, 226
What Happened in the 1914 Open Championship
One year after Harry Vardon lost in a playoff at the 1913 U.S. Open to amateur Francis Ouimet, Vardon won the 1914 British Open for what turned out to be his final major championship victory.At the 1913 U.S. Open, Ouimet, a young, unknown American, knocked off two titans of British golf, Vardon and Ted Ray, in a playoff. But at this Open, Vardon won by three strokes over fellow "Great Triumvirate" member J.H. Taylor, while Ray finished tied for 10th and Ouimet was in 56th place.
This was the only year that Ouimet played the British Open, although he did make several more attempts at the British Amateur Championship in ensuing years.
For Vardon, it was his sixth victory in the Open Championship, a record for most wins in the tournament that still stands today. Only Jack Nicklaus has won another major as many times (Nicklaus won The Masters six times).
Vardon and Taylor battled throughout the tournament, with Vardon holding a 1-stroke edge at the halfway mark. Playing together over the final 36-hole day, Taylor took a 2-stroke lead into the final round.
But Taylor struggled to an 83 in that last 18, while Vardon managed a 78 to secure the victory. Vardon, Taylor and James Braid constituted the "Great Triumvirate" and won 16 Opens between them. But this was the last.
Vardon was over 44 years old at the time of the win. He remained the oldest Open winner in the 20th century until the victory by Roberto de Vicenzo at the 1967 British Open.
The 1914 British Open was the last Open played until 1920, as World War I interrupted life in Europe.
1914 British Open Final Scores
| Harry Vardon | 73-77-78-78—306 |
| J.H. Taylor | 74-78-74-83—309 |
| Harry Simpson | 77-80-78-75—310 |
| Abe Mitchell | 76-78-79-79—312 |
| Tom Williamson | 75-79-79-79—312 |
| Reginald Wilson | 76-77-80-80—313 |
| James Ockenden | 75-76-83-80—314 |
| Phillip Gaudin | 78-83-80-74—315 |
| a-James Jenkins | 79-80-73-83—315 |
| James Braid | 74-82-78-82—316 |
| George Duncan | 77-79-80-80—316 |
| Arnaud Massy | 77-82-75-82—316 |
| Ted Ray | 77-82-76-81—316 |
| James Bradbeer | 77-80-80-80—317 |
| John D. Edgar | 79-75-84-79—317 |
| Jean Gassiat | 76-81-80-80—317 |
| William Hunter | 82-77-77-83—319 |
| a-E.A. Lassen | 85-78-79-77—319 |
| Ernest Foord | 82-81-82-76—321 |
| Cyril Hughes | 80-81-80-80—321 |
| James Batley | 78-83-81-80—322 |
| Ernest C. Jones | 87-81-80-74—322 |
| Fred Leach | 76-86-78-82—322 |
| C. Ralph Smith | 81-79-80-82—322 |
| Walter Hambleton | 79-75-86-83—323 |
| Michael Moran | 82-83-82-76—323 |
| Joshua Taylor | 82-79-84-78—323 |
| David Watt | 84-80-78-81—323 |
| Sandy Herd | 79-87-79-79—324 |
| a-Cecil Hutchison | 81-75-82-86—324 |
| John Lonie | 77-84-82-81—324 |
| Ernest Whitcombe | 74-83-84-83—324 |
| William Watt | 77-81-84-83—325 |
| Len Holland | 78-78-87-83—326 |
| a-Gordon Lockhart | 83-78-85-80—326 |
| James Sherlock | 84-78-85-79—326 |
| Claude Gray | 84-81-81-81—327 |
| Patrick O'Hare | 81-84-84-78—327 |
| Albert Seymour | 84-85-81-78—328 |
| G.M. Turner | 81-77-86-84—328 |
| a-James R.H. Anderson | 81-91-78-79—329 |
| James Horn | 80-80-80-89—329 |
| Wilfred Reid | 83-80-86-80—329 |
| Ernest Risebro | 86-83-81-79—329 |
| Fred Robson | 78-82-85-84—329 |
| James Adwick | 80-83-81-86—330 |
| Anthony Kettley | 83-84-80-83—330 |
| a-R.W. Orr | 79-80-87-84—330 |
| A. Simpson | 81-87-82-80—330 |
| Eric Bannister | 81-85-80-85—331 |
| Fred Collins | 81-86-88-76—331 |
| Frank Frostick | 84-86-83-78—331 |
| Charles Roberts | 79-86-81-85—331 |
| Jack B. Ross | 79-85-84-83—331 |
| Ben Sayers | 89-79-79-84—331 |
| Tom Fernie | 78-85-87-82—332 |
| James Hepburn | 83-80-85-84—332 |
| Charles Johns | 84-79-88-81—332 |
| a-Francis Ouimet | 86-79-85-82—332 |
| William Ritchie | 81-87-85-80—333 |
| Herbert Gaudin | 85-85-85-79—334 |
| H. Cheal | 81-88-83-83—335 |
| a-Charles Hope | 84-85-80-86—335 |
| Robert McInnes | 84-91-78-82—335 |
| Arthur Butchart | 89-88-76-83—336 |
| George Cawkwell | 82-85-80-89—336 |
| Peter Robertson | 82-83-85-86—336 |
| Jack Sidey | 85-82-84-85—336 |
| James Soutar | 85-81-85-86—337 |
| Arthur Havers | 83-80-84-90—337 |
| Horace Fulford | 87-84-79-88—338 |
| a-Sydney O. Shephert | 82-85-83-88—338 |
| Harry Cawsey | 87-83-84-85—339 |
| Archie Compston | 84-85-86-84—339 |
| Alfred Miles | 82-84-87-86—339 |
| John Park | 86-84-85-84—339 |
| George Oke | 89-83-80-88-340 |
| Rowley Banks | 89-89-81-82—341 |
| Harry Fernie | 80-84-86-92—342 |
| John Henry Turner | 85-86-89-86—346 |
| W.E. Brown | 86-89-84-88—347 |
| John McAndrew | 87-90-86-85—348 |
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