2012 Open Championship

Course layout

^ Hole #6 was a par 5 in previous Opens.

Lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):^[7]

Qualifying

Alternates

Where places are available to make up the full entry of 156, these additional places are allocated in ranking order from the Official World Golf Ranking. The alternates are allocated when it becomes clear that additional places are available (using the latest World Rankings), except that places allocated after the issue of Week 27 rankings (9 July) use those rankings.^[27]

After the final qualifying events on 15 July there were 157 qualified players. The withdrawal of Robert Karlsson reduced the field size to the usual 156. Russ Cochran then withdrew and was replaced by Michael Thompson (ranked 56), as Ben Crane (ranked 54) chose not to travel.

First round

Thursday, 19 July 2012

The weather conditions during the first day of the tournament turned out to be less harsh than expected, with very little wind and cloudy skies. Adam Scott made eight birdies and only two bogeys en route to a 6-under-par 64, tying the course record. Tiger Woods shot a 3-under 67, hitting all but one fairway in regulation.^[28]

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Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Adam Scott	64	−6
T2	Nicolas Colsaerts	65	−5
	Zach Johnson
	Paul Lawrie
5	Brandt Snedeker	66	−4
T6	Ernie Els	67	−3
	Peter Hanson
	Graeme McDowell
	Rory McIlroy
	Toshinori Muto
	Steve Stricker
	Bubba Watson
	Tiger Woods

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Second round

Friday, 20 July 2012

Some rain showers wet the course overnight and in the early morning hours, but the calm conditions continued into day two of the tournament. Brandt Snedeker fired a bogey-free round of 64 to vault to the top of the leaderboard, one shot ahead of Adam Scott, who shot 67. Tiger Woods, for the second straight round, only missed one fairway in regulation and shot another 3-under 67, including a holed green-side bunker shot for birdie on the 18th hole, to enter the weekend trailing the lead by four shots.

Tom Watson, at 62 years of age, set a new record as the oldest player to make the cut in the history of the Open Championship, beating his own record set in 2011.^[29]

For the first time since 2003, no amateurs made the halfway cut.

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Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Brandt Snedeker	66-64=130	−10
2	Adam Scott	64-67=131	−9
3	Tiger Woods	67-67=134	−6
4	Thorbjørn Olesen	69-66=135	−5
T5	Thomas Aiken	68-68=136	−4
	Jason Dufner	70-66=136
	Matt Kuchar	69-67=136
	Paul Lawrie	65-71=136
	Graeme McDowell	67-69=136
10	Ernie Els	67-70=137	−3

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Amateurs: Dunbar (+6), Trappel (+17).

Third round

Saturday, 21 July 2012

In the third round, leader Brandt Snedeker faltered by shooting a 73 (3-over-par) to move him down to a tie for second with Graeme McDowell, who rose up to second place with a score of 67 (3-under-par).^[30] Adam Scott, who entered the round one stroke behind Snedeker, shot a 68 (two under par) to move to eleven strokes under par, retaking the lead from Snedeker.^[30] Tiger Woods shot an even par of 70 to stay at six strokes under par, moving him to fourth place behind Scott, McDowell, and Snedeker.^[30]

Anirban Lahiri scored the first hole in one of the Championship at the 9th hole.^[31]

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Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Adam Scott	64-67-68=199	−11
T2	Graeme McDowell	67-69-67=203	−7
	Brandt Snedeker	66-64-73=203
4	Tiger Woods	67-67-70=204	−6
T5	Ernie Els	67-70-68=205	−5
	Zach Johnson	65-74-66=205
7	Thorbjørn Olesen	69-66-71=206	−4
T8	Thomas Aiken	68-68-71=207	−3
	Bill Haas	71-68-68=207
T10	Mark Calcavecchia	71-68-69=208	−2
	Matt Kuchar	69-67-72=208
	Louis Oosthuizen	72-68-68=208
	Bubba Watson	67-73-68=208

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Final round

Sunday, 22 July 2012

In the fourth and final round, leader Adam Scott got off to a poor start on the front nine holes by scoring a 36 (2-over-par), bringing his score to nine-under par.^[4] Graeme McDowell, Brandt Snedeker, and Tiger Woods entered the round within striking distance of Scott, but each faltered and sank out of contention.^[4] McDowell shot a 75 (five-over-par), and fell to a tie for fifth with Luke Donald.^[4] Snedeker double-bogeyed the seventh and eighth holes, leading to a final round score of 74 (4-over-par), in a tie for third with Woods. Woods had trouble with a greenside bunker on the sixth hole, and triple-bogeyed the hole which he had birdied in each of the three previous rounds. Woods scored a 73 to put him into a tie for third with Snedeker.^[4]

Despite two bogeys on the front nine, Ernie Els got back to even par for the round with a birdie at the 12th hole and then birdied the 14th.^[4] Scott also birdied the 14th but bogeyed the next three to leave him at 7-under, tied with Els, who had birdied the final hole.^[4] On the tournament's 72nd hole, Scott put his tee shot into a bunker and had to exit sideways to the fairway. His third shot left him an 8-foot (2.4 m) par-saving putt to force a playoff, but it missed to the left. Els was bogey-free on the back nine with four birdies to card a 32 (−4) and win by one stroke.^[4]

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Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	Ernie Els	67-70-68-68=273	−7	900,000
2	Adam Scott	64-67-68-75=274	−6	520,000
T3	Brandt Snedeker	66-64-73-74=277	−3	297,500
	Tiger Woods	67-67-70-73=277
T5	Luke Donald	70-68-71-69=278	−2	195,000
	Graeme McDowell	67-69-67-75=278
T7	Thomas Aiken	68-68-71-72=279	−1	142,500
	Nicolas Colsaerts	65-77-72-65=279
T9	Mark Calcavecchia	71-68-69-72=280	E	79,600
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	71-69-73-67=280
	Dustin Johnson	73-68-68-71=280
	Zach Johnson	65-74-66-75=280
	Matt Kuchar	69-67-72-72=280
	Alex Norén	71-71-69-69=280
	Geoff Ogilvy	72-68-73-67=280
	Thorbjørn Olesen	69-66-71-74=280
	Ian Poulter	71-69-73-67=280
	Vijay Singh	70-72-68-70=280

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Scorecard

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Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	4
Els	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7
Scott	−10	−11	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−8	−7	−6
Snedeker	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−5	−3	−3	−4	−3	−2	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−3
Woods	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−3	−4	−4	−3	−4	−4	−5	−4	−3	−2	−2	−2	−3
Donald	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	E	−1	E	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2
McDowell	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−6	−5	−4	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−3	−2	−2
Aiken	−3	−2	−2	−3	−3	−3	−4	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2	−1
Colsaerts	+3	+3	+4	+4	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	+1	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	−1

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Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+

Source:^[32]