| 1955 British Open | |
Australian Peter Thomson won his second consecutive Open Championship - the middle title in a run of three straight British Open wins for Thompson from 1954-56 - on the Old Course at St. Andrews in 1955.
Thomson later added two more British Open titles, finishing his career as a 5-time Open champion. Thomson won this one with four straight rounds of par or better, winning by two strokes over runner-up Johnny Fallon.
Farther back in the field, tied for 32nd, was Byron Nelson. The 1955 British Open was one of only two appearances Nelson made in this event, the other occurring in 1937. Nelson had been retired from full-time competition since the end of the 1946 PGA Tour season, but his last tournament victory happened this year in the French Open.
Results from the 1955 British Open golf tournament played on The Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland (a-amateur):
| Peter Thomson | 71-68-70-72--281 |
| John Fallon | 73-67-73-70--283 |
| Frank Jowle | 70-71-69-74--284 |
| Bobby Locke | 74-69-70-72--285 |
| Ken Bousfield | 71-75-70-70--286 |
| Antonio Cerda | 73-71-71-71--286 |
| Bernard Hunt | 70-71-74-71--286 |
| Flory Van Donck | 71-72-71-72--286 |
| Harry Weetman | 71-71-70-74--286 |
| Romualdo Barbieri | 71-71-73-72--287 |
| Christy O'Connor Sr. | 71-75-70-71--287 |
| Eric Brown | 69-70-73-76--288 |
| Fred Daly | 75-72-70-71--288 |
| John Jacobs | 71-70-71-76--288 |
| John Anderson | 71-72-77-69--289 |
| William Henderson | 74-71-72-72--289 |
| Dennis Smalldon | 70-69-78-73--290 |
| Arturo Sotto | 72-73-72-73--290 |
| Ed Furgol | 71-76-72-73--292 |
| Kel Nagle | 72-72-74-74--292 |
| Syd Scott | 69-77-73-73--292 |
| Harry Bradshaw | 72-70-73-78--293 |
| William Branch | 75-72-73-73--293 |
| a-Joe Conrad | 72-76-74-71--293 |
| Robert Halsall | 71-74-76-72--293 |
| Reg Horne | 72-75-75-71--293 |
| Hassan Hassanien | 73-72-76-73--294 |
| Dai Rees | 69-79-73-73--294 |
| Norman Sutton | 71-74-75-74--294 |
| Jimmy Martin | 70-72-79-74--295 |
| a-John McHale | 72-76-72-75--295 |
| Henry Cotton | 70-72-78-76--296 |
| Tom Haliburton | 75-72-73-76--296 |
| Byron Nelson | 72-75-78-71--296 |
| John Burton | 75-73-75-74--297 |
| Max Faulkner | 73-74-74-76--297 |
| Johnny Bulla | 75-70-73-80--298 |
| Carlos Potente | 73-75-76-74--298 |
| Bill Shankland | 73-74-77-74--298 |
| Brian Wilkes | 75-73-74-76--298 |
| Ken Beckett | 74-74-76-75--299 |
| Ugo Grappasonni | 72-72-77-78--299 |
| Christie Kane | 73-71-76-79--299 |
| George Farmer | 73-73-79-75--300 |
| Cecil Denny | 70-76-76-79--301 |
| K.G. Geddes | 74-74-77-76--301 |
| T.H.T. Fairbairn | 73-74-79-76--302 |
| George Howard | 73-74-79-78--304 |
| a-Alfred Bucher | 72-74-85-80--311 |
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