| 1900 British Open | |
The Open Championship moved into the 20th century with this playing. As the first tournament of the 1900s, it only seems appropriate that the 1900 British Open was played on The Old Course at St. Andrews.
Which golfers comprise the Great Triumvirate? J.H. Taylor, Harry Vardon and James Braid, and that's the order in which they finished at the 1900 British Open. (They also finished 1-2-3, although in different orders, in 1901 and 1906.)
For Taylor, this was the third of his five Open Championship victories. And he ran away from his two famous colleagues, finishing eight strokes clear of runner-up Vardon. Vardon won the two previous Opens, and went on to win another four. Braid had not yet won an Open in 1900, but went on to win five.
1900 British Open Scores
Results from the 1900 British Open golf tournament played on The Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland (a-amateur):
| J.H. Taylor | 79-77-78-75--309 |
| Harry Vardon | 79-81-80-77--317 |
| James Braid | 82-81-80-79--322 |
| Jack White | 80-81-82-80--323 |
| Willie Auchterlonie | 81-85-80-80--326 |
| Willie Park Jr. | 80-83-81-84--328 |
| a-Robert Maxwell | 81-81-86-81--329 |
| Archie Simpson | 82-85-83-79--329 |
| Ben Sayers | 81-83-85-81--330 |
| Sandy Herd | 81-85-81-84--331 |
| Andrew Kirkaldy | 87-83-82-79--331 |
| Tom Vardon | 79-87-84-81--331 |
| Ted Ray | 88-80-85-81--334 |
| David Anderson Jr. | 81-87-85-84--337 |
| Tom Simpson | 84-86-83-84--337 |
| a-William Greig | 93-84-80-81--338 |
| a-Harold Hilton | 83-87-87-81--338 |
| John W. Taylor | 91-81-84-83--339 |
| Jack Kirkaldy | 86-85-87-82--340 |
| Peter Paxton | 87-87-79-87--340 |
| Peter McEwan | 85-80-89-87--341 |
| Phillip Gaudin | 85-88-81-88--342 |
| James Kay | 84-81-87-90--342 |
| a-Fred Mackenzie | 88-82-89-83--342 |
| Andrew Scott | 84-84-84-90--342 |
| George Coburn | 83-88-83-89--343 |
| a-William Fowler | 86-85-88-84--343 |
| a-John E. Laidlay | 85-87-85-86--343 |
| John Williamson | 87-82-88-89--346 |
| a-Ernley Blackwell | 88-86-86-89--349 |
| Charles Ralph Smith | 83-87-88-91--349 |
| Frederick Butel | 88-85-89-88--350 |
| James Hepburn | 89-86-87-89--351 |
| a-Samuel Mure Fergusson | 88-86-90-87--351 |
| a-D. Stanley Froy | 91-84-93-86--354 |
| Fred Hocking | 85-88-90-92--355 |
| Thomas Yeoman | 86-85-92-95--358 |
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