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1999 British Open |
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Recap and Scores for the 1999 British Open Golf Tournament
Unheralded Scotsman Paul Lawrie, a local lad, claimed the Claret Jug at Carnoustie. Lawrie did it by winning a four-hole playoff over Justin Leonard, the 1997 Open Champion, and Jean Van de Velde.
Ah, Van de Velde. It's not the playoff or the champion who is best remembered from the 1999 British Open, but Van de Velde and the calamity that befell him - or rather, that he created - on the 72nd hole.
Van de Velde took a 3-stroke lead to the 72nd tee. The final hole at Carnoustie is a devilish one, and Van de Velde should have played the hole as safely as possible. But he didn't. Needing only double-bogey to win, Van de Velde still took driver off the tee, and lost the drive to the right. Playing from the hay with a 2-iron, he attempted to go for the green rather than play a much safer layup short of the burn crossing in front of the green.
The 2-iron flew right of the green, hit the grandstands and bounded backwards, back across the burn. Now in the really deep heather, Van de Velde's pitch fell into the burn. For a moment Van de Velde contemplated trying to play out of the burn, then decided to drop behind the burn again. This time his pitch cleared the burn but found a bunker. He blasted out to seven feet and made the putt for a triple-bogey.
It was quite the spectacle, and one of the most infamous final-hole meltdowns in golf history.
1999 British Open Scores
Results and prize money from the 1999 British Open played on the Championship Course at Carnoustie Golf Links (par 72) in Carnoustie, Scotland (x-won four hole playoff; a-amateur):
| x-Paul Lawrie, $577,500 |
73-74-76-67-290 |
| Justin Leonard, $305,250 |
73-74-71-72-290 |
| Jean Van de Velde, $305,250 |
75-68-70-77-290 |
| Angel Cabrera, $165,000 |
75-69-77-70-291 |
| Craig Parry, $165,000 |
76-75-67-73-291 |
| Greg Norman, $115,500 |
76-70-75-72-293 |
| Tiger Woods, $82,500 |
74-72-74-74-294 |
| Davis Love, $82,500 |
74-74-77-69-294 |
| David Frost, $82,500 |
80-69-71-74-294 |
| Scott Dunlap, $57,420 |
72-77-76-70-295 |
| Jim Furyk, $57,420 |
78-71-76-70-295 |
| Retief Goosen, $57,420 |
76-75-73-71-295 |
| Jesper Parnevik, $57,420 |
74-71-78-72-295 |
| Hal Sutton, $57,420 |
73-78-72-72-295 |
| Colin Montgomerie, $42,900 |
74-76-72-74-296 |
| Tsuyoshi Yoneyama, $42,900 |
77-74-73-72-296 |
| Scott Verplank, $42,900 |
80-74-73-69-296 |
| Lee Westwood, $33,825 |
76-75-74-72-297 |
| Costantino Rocca, $33,825 |
81-69-74-73-297 |
| Patrik Sjoland, $33,825 |
74-72-77-74-297 |
| Andrew Coltart, $33,825 |
74-74-72-77-297 |
| Bernhard Langer, $33,825 |
72-77-73-75-297 |
| Frank Nobilo, $33,825 |
76-76-70-75-297 |
| Miguel Angel Martin, $25,425 |
74-76-72-76-298 |
| Peter O'Malley, $25,425 |
76-75-74-73-298 |
| Brian Watts, $25,425 |
74-73-77-74-298 |
| Ian Woosnam, $25,425 |
76-74-74-74-298 |
| Ernie Els, $25,425 |
74-76-76-72-298 |
| Padraig Harrington, $22,275 |
77-74-74-74-299 |
| Payne Stewart, $19,069 |
79-73-74-74-300 |
| Pierre Fulke, $19,069 |
75-75-77-73-300 |
| Darren Clarke, $19,069 |
76-75-76-73-300 |
| Thomas Bjorn, $19,069 |
79-73-75-73-300 |
| Jeff Maggert, $19,069 |
75-77-75-73-300 |
| Tim Herron, $19,069 |
81-70-74-75-300 |
| Len Mattiace, $19,069 |
73-74-75-78-300 |
| Nick Price, $15,675 |
77-74-73-77-301 |
| Paul Affleck, $15,675 |
79-75-74-73-301 |
| Peter Baker, $15,675 |
77-74-78-72-301 |
| Dudley Hart, $15,675 |
73-79-75-74-301 |
| Mark McNulty, $15,675 |
73-77-76-75-301 |
| Michael Weir, $15,675 |
83-71-72-75-301 |
| Duffy Waldorf, $14,355 |
80-72-76-74-302 |
| Mark James, $,14,355 |
76-74-74-78-302 |
| David Howell, $13,386 |
76-78-79-70-303 |
| Jeff Sluman, $13,386 |
80-74-77-72-303 |
| Steve Pate, $13,386 |
73-76-80-74-303 |
| Joe Ozaki, $13,386 |
74-78-75-76-303 |
| Thomas Levet, $11,908 |
78-76-76-74-304 |
| Choi Kyoung-Ju, $11,908 |
76-72-81-75-304 |
| Dean Robertson, $11,908 |
76-75-78-75-304 |
| Stephen Allan, $11,908 |
79-73-83-69-304 |
| Neil Price, $11,908 |
79-74-76-75-304 |
| Katsuyoshi Tomori, $11,908 |
74-75-79-76-304 |
| Bob Estes, $11,908 |
75-76-77-76-304 |
| Peter Lonard, $11,908 |
76-78-74-76-304 |
| Bradley Hughes, $11,908 |
76-71-78-79-304 |
| Santiago Luna, $10,829 |
78-74-80-73-305 |
| Dennis Paulson, $10,829 |
74-78-79-74-305 |
| Phillip Price, $10,829 |
77-76-77-75-305 |
| Jeremy Robinson, $10,829 |
77-76-77-75-305 |
| David Duval, $10,478 |
79-75-76-76-306 |
| Johan Rystrom, $10,478 |
78-75-76-77-306 |
| Mark Brooks, $10,478 |
82-70-76-78-306 |
| Jarmo Sandelin, $10,313 |
75-78-77-77-307 |
| Sven Struver, $10,230 |
77-73-79-79-308 |
| Lee Thompson, $10,148 |
75-78-76-80-309 |
| Brian Davis, $10,024 |
80-71-82-77-310 |
| John Huston, $10,024 |
80-71-77-82-310 |
| Lee Janzen, $9,900 |
80-74-79-78-311 |
| Shingo Katayama, $9,900 |
76-75-78-83-312 |
| Martyn Thompson, $9,900 |
76-78-78-81-313 |
| Derrick Cooper, $9,900 |
75-77-76-85-313 |
| Craig Hainline | 75-80 |
| Jean Hugo | 78-77 |
| Miguel Angel Jimenez | 81-74 |
| Pedro Linhart | 80-75 |
| Ross McFarlane | 77-78 |
| Rocco Mediate | 79-76 |
| Phil Mickelson | 79-76 |
| Scott Watson | 74-81 |
| Tom Watson | 82-73 |
| Michael Campbell | 79-77 |
| a-Luke Donald | 80-76 |
| Paul Eales | 78-78 |
| Carlos Franco | 80-76 |
| Brandt Jobe | 77-79 |
| Stephen Leaney | 79-77 |
| Tom Lehman | 76-80 |
| Michael Long | 78-78 |
| Andrew Magee | 77-79 |
| Gilberto Morales | 80-76 |
| Per Nyman | 81-75 |
| Corey Pavin | 80-76 |
| Andrew Raitt | 78-78 |
| Justin Rose | 79-77 |
| Hidemichi Tanaka | 82-74 |
| Greg Turner | 78-78 |
| Bob Tway | 75-81 |
| Warren Bennett | 77-80 |
| Steve Elkington | 79-78 |
| Nick Faldo | 78-79 |
| Christopher Hanell | 81-76 |
| Gabriel Hjerstedt | 79-78 |
| Jose Maria Olazabal | 78-79 |
| Mark O'Meara | 83-74 |
| Rod Pampling | 71-86 |
| Des Smyth | 75-82 |
| Steve Stricker | 80-77 |
| Glen Day | 79-79 |
| Richard Green | 81-77 |
| Mathias Gronberg | 79-79 |
| Robert Karlsson | 76-82 |
| Shigeki Maruyama | 78-80 |
| David Park | 77-81 |
| Billy Andrade | 75-84 |
| Stuart Appleby | 78-81 |
| Mark Calcavecchia | 78-81 |
| David Carter | 79-80 |
| Scott Gump | 85-74 |
| Jong-Duck Kim | 83-76 |
| Jarrod Moseley | 85-74 |
| Geoff Ogilvy | 81-78 |
| Greg Owen | 78-81 |
| Fabrice Tarnaud | 80-79 |
| a-Paddy Gribben | 75-85 |
| Per-Ulrik Johansson | 79-81 |
| Paul McGinley | 83-77 |
| Raymond Russell | 82-78 |
| Craig Spence | 81-79 |
| Rich Beem | 80-81 |
| Jon Bevan | 81-80 |
| Marc Farry | 82-79 |
| Stephen Gallacher | 82-79 |
| Billy Mayfair | 81-80 |
| Vijay Singh | 77-84 |
| a-Graeme Storm | 82-79 |
| Stewart Cink | 82-80 |
| Ted Tryba | 80-82 |
| a-Zane Scotland | 82-81 |
| Bob Charles | 83-81 |
| Gary Player | 81-83 |
| Kazuhiko Hosokawa | 83-82 |
| Allan Macdonald | 80-85 |
| Mark Allen | 80-86 |
| Seve Ballesteros | 80-86 |
| Anders Hansen | 82-84 |
| Sandy Lyle | 85-81 |
| Eduardo Herrera | 81-86 |
| Tony Jacklin | 85-82 |
| Andrew Sherborne | 87-80 |
| Prayad Maksaeng | 91-79 |
| Simon McCarthy | 82-89 |
| Sergio Garcia | 89-83 |
| Fred Funk | 83-WD |
| Tom Gillis | 90-WD |
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