| 1925 British Open | |
In many ways, the 1925 British Open was one of swansongs:
Barnes had previously won the 1916 and 1919 PGA Championships and the 1921 U.S. Open. He opened this tournament with a round of 70, but lost the halfway lead to Macdonald Smith after Smith's second-round 69.
Smith led by five strokes entering the final round. Barnes carded a final-round 74 to post a total of 300. Smith need only shoot 78 to win, but couldn't manage it. Instead, Smith shot 82 and finished in fourth place.
Smith was one of the top players of his era, but he never won a major. This fourth-place showing here was one of 12 times he finished in the Top 5 at the British or U.S. Open.
1925 British Open Golf Tournament Scores
Results from the 1925 British Open golf tournament played at Prestwick Golf Club played at Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland (a-amateur):
| Jim Barnes | 70-77-79-74--300 |
| Archie Compston | 76-75-75-75--301 |
| Ted Ray | 77-76-75-73--301 |
| Macdonald Smith | 76-69-76-82--303 |
| Abe Mitchell | 77-76-75-77--305 |
| Percy Alliss | 77-80-77-76--310 |
| William H. Davies | 76-76-80-78--310 |
| J.W. Gaudin | 78-81-77-74--310 |
| J.H. Taylor | 74-79-80-77--310 |
| Syd Wingate | 74-78-80-78--310 |
| a-Robert Harris | 75-81-78-77--311 |
| Fred Robson | 80-77-78-76--311 |
| Herbert Gaudin | 76-79-77-80--312 |
| Tom Fernie | 78-74-77-85--314 |
| Sandy Herd | 76-79-82-77--314 |
| Joe Kirkwood | 83-79-76-76--314 |
| a-John Cruikshank | 80-78-82-75--315 |
| Jack Smith | 75-78-82-80--315 |
| Harry Vardon | 79-80-77-79--315 |
| Arthur Havers | 77-80-80-79--316 |
| Duncan McCulloch | 76-77-84-79--316 |
| James Ockenden | 80-78-80-78--316 |
| Reg Whitcombe | 81-80-79-76--316 |
| Frank Ball | 76-78-81-82--317 |
| Dick May | 82-77-78-80--317 |
| Aubrey Boomer | 79-82-76-81--318 |
| Ernest Whitcome | 81-83-77-77--318 |
| James Adwick | 81-77-82-80--320 |
| George Duncan | 79-77-83-81--320 |
| Cedric Sayner | 83-80-78-79--320 |
| a-Cyril Tolley | 82-81-78-79--320 |
| Arthur Butchart | 84-80-78-79--321 |
| Frank Frostick | 80-84-78-79--321 |
| Thomas Walton | 79-83-84-75--321 |
| James Horn | 81-76-82-83--322 |
| Henry Kinch | 78-79-84-81--322 |
| Herbert Osborne | 85-79-82-77--323 |
| Hugh Roberts | 84-82-77-80--323 |
| Roland Vickers | 80-83-81-80--324 |
| William McMinn | 77-80-82-86--325 |
| Albert S. Tingey Jr. | 78-81-83-85--327 |
| Bertram Weastell | 81-80-83-83--327 |
| F.C. Jewell | 75-81-85-87--328 |
| T.B. Jolly | 86-81-81-80--328 |
| Jack Milner | 77-78-85-88--328 |
| William Oke | 83-82-85-79--329 |
| William Twine | 85-82-82-81--330 |
| W.E. Brown | 79-86-88-78--331 |
| Tom King Jr. | 85-81-81-84--331 |
| Cyril Thomson | 84-84-81-82--331 |
| Reginald Wilson | 79-86-80-86--331 |
| Moses O'Neill | 81-89-78-84--332 |
| Tom Wilson | 77-90-79-86--332 |
| Alfred Beck Jr. | 83-80-83-87--333 |
| Arthur Day | 84-82-81-86--333 |
| John Sullivan | 81-85-82-85--333 |
| James Batley | 79-85-82-88--334 |
| George Charman | 84-79-87-85--335 |
| Harry Crapper | 82-86-86-81--335 |
| Fred Boobyer | 88-82-84-82--336 |
| a-Cecil Hayward | 84-83-84-86--337 |
| Wally Thomas | 83-85-87-82--337 |
| W.G. Gimber | 80-84-87-87--338 |
| Charles Johns | 83-81-87-88--339 |
| Archie Thomson | 83-84-84-89--340 |
| Albert Hallam | 85-89-83-86--343 |
| Dick Wheildon | 79-85-90-89--343 |
| Charles White | 80-85-94-85--344 |
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