2025 British Open Winner and Scores

The 2025 British Open was the 153rd time the tournament was played. Scottie Scheffler won it for his second major championship victory of the year.

Winner: Scottie Scheffler, 267

Where it was played: Royal Portrush in Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Tournament dates: July 17-20, 2025

Leaders after first round: Jacob Skov Olesen, Haotong Li, Matt Fitzpatrick, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, and Harris English, 67

Leader after second round: Scottie Scheffler, 132

Leader after third round: Scottie Scheffler, 199

What Happened in the 2025 Open Championship

Scottie Scheffler dominated the 2025 British Open, not quite from the start but most of the way to the finish. And in so doing, he earned the third leg of the career Grand Slam.

Scheffler opened with a 68 at Royal Portrush, one stroke off the first-round lead shared by five golfers. With a 64 in Round 2, Scheffler went one in front. He stretched his lead to four strokes at the end of the third round after scoring 67.

The writing was on the wall for the rest of the players in the field when Scheffler began his final round with a tap-in birdie on the first hole. He opened a seven-stroke lead on the front nine, although that lead lead dropped to four before the turn. But early into the back nine his lead was back at six.

Scheffler wound up scoring 68 in that final round — just the seventh winner of The Open to score in the 60s all four rounds — cruising to that four-stroke victory. The runner-up was Harris English, who had been one of the five co-leaders after the first round.

It was the second major of the year in which English finished runner-up Scheffler, who earlier in the year won the 2025 PGA Championship. Scheffler was just the seventh golfer to this point to win both of those majors in the same year.

It was Scheffler's fourth overall victory in a major championship, and the third different major (after previous wins in The Masters and PGA) Scheffler had won. The victory gave Scheffler with three of the four titles needed for the career Grand Slam, with the U.S. Open still to go. It was Scheffler's 17th career win on the PGA Tour.

2025 British Open Final Scores

Scottie Scheffler	68-64-67-68—267
Harris English	67-70-68-66—271
Chris Gotterup	72-65-68-67—272
Wyndham Clark	76-66-66-65—273
Matt Fitzpatrick	67-66-71-69—273
Haotong Li	67-67-69-70—273
Robert MacIntyre	71-66-70-67—274
Xander Schauffele	71-69-66-68—274
Rory McIlroy	70-69-66-69—274
Bryson DeChambeau	78-65-68-64—275
Corey Conners	74-69-66-66—275
Russell Henley	72-70-65-68—275
Brian Harman	69-65-73-68—275
Rickie Fowler	69-72-70-65—276
Nicolai Hojgaard	69-69-69-69—276
Jesper Svensson	71-72-68-66—277
Hideki Matsuyama	74-69-68-66—277
John Parry	72-71-67-67—277
Tommy Fleetwood	73-68-69-67—277
Justin Rose	69-71-68-69—277
Rasmus Hojgaard	69-68-70-70—277
Tyrrell Hatton	68-69-68-72—277
Maverick McNealy	69-74-69-66—278
J.J. Spaun	73-69-68-68—278
Dustin Johnson	73-69-67-69—278
Lucas Glover	69-72-68-69—278
Ludvig Aberg	73-67-68-70—278
Harry Hall	73-67-68-71—279
Oliver Lindell	72-68-68-71—279
Daniel Berger	72-70-70-68—280
Akshay Bhatia	73-68-70-69—280
Keegan Bradley	72-67-70-71—280
Kristoffer Reitan	72-68-68-72—280
Sergio Garcia	70-73-70-68—281
Aaron Rai	69-72-71-69—281
Jon Rahm	70-72-69-70—281
Justin Thomas	72-69-69-71—281
Christiaan Bezuidenhout	67-73-69-72—281
Lee Westwood	69-70-69-73—281
Shane Lowry	70-72-74-66—282
Jordan Spieth	73-69-72-68—282
Takumi Kanaya	71-72-69-70—282
Jason Kokrak	71-70-71-70—282
Nathan Kimsey	71-72-68-71—282
Thomas Detry	72-71-70-70—283
Matthew Jordan	68-72-73-70—283
Henrik Stenson	75-68-69-71—283
Thriston Lawrence	73-70-68-72—283
Jordan Smith	71-68-72-72—283
Sam Burns	70-69-72-72—283
Marc Leishman	73-68-68-74—283
Matt Wallace	73-69-66-75—283
Adrien Saddier	72-71-72-69—284
Sepp Straka	72-71-70-71—284
Sungjae Im	71-71-67-75—284
Phil Mickelson	70-72-76-67—285
Jhonattan Vegas	72-70-70-73—285
Tony Finau	70-68-72-75—285
Antoine Rozner	72-70-73-71—286
Justin Leonard	70-73-70-73—286
Dean Burmester	71-71-76-69—287
Romain Langasque	71-71-72-73—287
Riki Kawamoto	72-70-78-68—288
Andrew Novak	71-72-74-71—288
Viktor Hovland	73-69-73-73—288
Francesco Molinari	72-71-71-74—288
Ryggs Johnston	74-66-74-74—288
Jacob Skov Olesen	67-76-73-74—290
Matthias Schmid	73-70-79-70—292
Sebastian Soderberg	73-70-75-77—295

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