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1900 British Open
Recap and Scores for the 1900 British Open Golf Tournament

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.

And that Britain's "Great Triumvirate" finished 1-2-3. The "Great Triumvirate" is the name bestowed on the threesome of golfers who dominated the British Open for more than 20 years in the late 1800s and early 1900s. From 1894 to 1914, the three golfers won the British Open a combined 16 times.

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
*Full name not known

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