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1998 British Open |
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Recap and Scores for the 1998 British Open Golf Tournament
The year 1998 was a pretty good one for Mark O'Meara. He birdied the 72nd hole at Augusta National to win The Masters, then, a few months later, won a playoff to also take the British Open.
The 1998 British Open got off to a most auspicious start with Tiger Woods shooting 65 to share the first-round lead. Unheralded Brian Watts, an American who had played mostly in Japan to this point, took the second-round lead. Woods, 17-year-old amateur Justin Rose, and 3-time major champion Nick Price were tied in second.
Bad weather hit Royal Birkdale in Round 3, and the 72 carded by O'Meara was one of the best scores of the day. He moved into second, two strokes back of Watts.
Rose stirred the crowd by finishing in fourth place, and Woods charged with a final-round 66, but Watts and O'Meara finished tied and headed into the four-hole playoff. Which O'Meara won with a birdie on the first hole coupled with a Watts bogey on the fourth hole.
1998 British Open Scores
Results and prize money (USD) from the 1998 British Open played at Royal Birkdale (par 70) in Southport, England (p-won four-hole playoff; a-amateur):
| p-Mark O'Meara, $492,000 |
72-68-72-68-280 |
| Brian Watts, $308,320 |
68-69-73-70-280 |
| Tiger Woods, $221,400 |
65-73-77-66-281 |
| Jesper Parnevik, $125,733 |
68-72-72-70-282 |
| Jim Furyk, $125,733 |
70-70-72-70-282 |
| a-Justin Rose |
72-66-75-69-282 |
| Raymond Russell, $125,733 |
68-73-75-66-282 |
| Davis Love III, $81,180 |
67-73-77-68-285 |
| Costantino Rocca, $69,994 |
72-74-70-70-286 |
| Thomas Bjorn, $69,994 |
68-71-76-71-286 |
| Brad Faxon, $54,666 |
67-74-74-72-287 |
| David Duval, $54,666 |
70-71-75-71-287 |
| John Huston, $54,666 |
65-77-73-72-287 |
| Gordon Brand, $47,560 |
71-70-76-71-288 |
| Greg Turner, $38,786 |
68-75-75-71-289 |
| Des Smyth, $38,786 |
74-69-75-71-289 |
| Jose Maria Olazabal, $38,786 |
73-72-75-69-289 |
| Peter Baker, $38,786 |
69-72-77-71-289 |
| Mark James, $28,240 |
71-74-74-71-290 |
| Sandy Lyle, $28,240 |
71-72-75-72-290 |
| Curtis Strange, $28,240 |
73-73-74-70-290 |
| Vijay Singh, $28,240 |
67-74-78-71-290 |
| Robert Allenby, $28,240 |
67-76-78-69-290 |
| Peter O'Malley, $20,467 |
71-71-78-71-291 |
| Lee Janzen, $20,467 |
72-69-80-70-291 |
| Sam Torrance, $20,467 |
69-77-75-70-291 |
| Stephen Ames, $20,467 |
68-72-79-72-291 |
| Bob Estes, $20,467 |
72-70-76-73-291 |
| Loren Roberts, $16,892 |
66-76-76-74-292 |
| Shigeki Maruyama, $16,892 |
70-73-75-74-292 |
| Ernie Els, $16,892 |
72-74-74-72-292 |
| a-Sergio Garcia |
69-75-76-72-292 |
| Scott Dunlap, $16,892 |
72-69-80-71-292 |
| Nick Price, $16,892 |
66-72-82-72-292 |
| Sven Struver, $14,596 |
75-70-80-68-293 |
| Santiago Luna, $14,596 |
70-72-80-71-293 |
| Mark Calcavecchia, $14,596 |
69-77-73-74-293 |
| Philip Walton, $13,694 |
68-76-74-76-294 |
| Joakim Haeggman, $13,694 |
71-74-78-71-294 |
| Steen Tinning, $13,694 |
69-76-77-72-294 |
| Tom Kite, $13,694 |
72-69-79-74-294 |
| Patrik Sjoland, $13,694 |
72-72-77-73-294 |
| Naomichi Ozaki, $13,694 |
72-73-76-73-294 |
| David Carter, $12,433 |
71-75-76-73-295 |
| Payne Stewart, $12,433 |
71-71-78-75-295 |
| David Howell, $12,433 |
68-77-79-71-295 |
| Rodger Davis, $12,433 |
76-70-78-71-295 |
| David Frost, $12,433 |
72-73-78-72-295 |
| Nick Faldo, $12,433 |
72-73-75-75-295 |
| Andrew Coltart, $12,433 |
68-77-75-75-295 |
| Katsuyoshi Tomori, $12,433 |
75-71-70-79-295 |
| Frankie Minoza, $11,250 |
69-75-76-76-296 |
| Steve Stricker, $11,250 |
70-72-80-74-296 |
| Larry Mize, $11,250 |
70-75-79-72-296 |
| Brandt Jobe, $11,250 |
70-73-82-71-296 |
| Billy Mayfair, $11,250 |
72-73-77-74-296 |
| Ian Woosnam, $10,273 |
72-74-76-75-297 |
| Steve Jones, $10,273 |
73-72-79-73-297 |
| Trevor Dodds, $10,273 |
73-71-81-72-297 |
| Ignacio Garrido, $10,273 |
71-74-80-72-297 |
| Justin Leonard, $10,273 |
73-73-82-69-297 |
| Greg Chalmers, $10,273 |
71-75-77-74-297 |
| Eduardo Romero, $10,273 |
71-70-79-77-297 |
| Lee Westwood, $9,799 |
71-71-78-78-298 |
| Carlos Franco, $9,799 |
71-73-76-78-298 |
| Michael Long, $9,512 |
70-74-78-77-299 |
| Stewart Cink, $9,512 |
71-73-83-72-299 |
| Michael Campbell, $9,512 |
73-73-80-73-299 |
| a-Didier de Vooght |
70-76-80-73-299 |
| Mark Brooks, $9,512 |
71-73-75-80-299 |
| Fred Couples, $9,512 |
66-74-78-81-299 |
| Andrew Clapp, $9,266 |
72-74-81-73-300 |
| Gary Evans, $9,184 |
69-74-84-74-301 |
| Bob May, $9,184 |
70-73-85-75-303 |
| Andrew McLardy, $9,184 |
72-74-80-78-304 |
| Fredrik Jacobson, $9,184 |
67-78-81-79-305 |
| Kazuhiko Hosokawa, $9,184 |
72-73-81-80-306 |
| Robert Giles, $9,184 |
72-74-83-78-307 |
| Phil Mickelson, $9,184 |
71-74-85-78-308 |
| Andrew Oldcorn, $9,184 |
75-71-84-79-309 |
| Dudley Hart, $9,184 |
73-72-85-80-310 |
| Brian Davis | 72-75 |
| Keiichiro Fukabori | 70-77 |
| Tony Johnstone | 73-74 |
| Barry Lane | 72-75 |
| Thomas Levet | 72-75 |
| Jeff Maggert | 73-74 |
| Paul McGinley | 72-75 |
| Colin Montgomerie | 73-74 |
| Craig Parry | 73-74 |
| Phillip Price | 72-75 |
| Carl Suneson | 77-70 |
| Bob Tway | 68-79 |
| Seve Ballesteros | 73-75 |
| Darren Clarke | 73-75 |
| Glen Day | 75-73 |
| Joe Durant | 74-74 |
| a-Simon McCarthy | 73-75 |
| Peter Mitchell | 76-72 |
| Yoshinori Mizumaki | 71-77 |
| Peter Senior | 71-77 |
| Toru Taniguchi | 71-77 |
| Paul Azinger | 76-73 |
| Richard Bland | 71-78 |
| Gary Brown | 74-75 |
| Derrick Cooper | 72-77 |
| Grant Dodd | 70-79 |
| Padraig Harrington | 73-76 |
| J.P. Hayes | 70-79 |
| Bernhard Langer | 74-75 |
| Paul Lawrie | 73-76 |
| Tom Watson | 73-76 |
| KJ Choi | 70-80 |
| Retief Goosen | 74-76 |
| Jean Louis Guepy | 74-76 |
| Scott Hoch | 73-77 |
| Per-Ulrik Johansson | 74-76 |
| Lee Jones | 77-73 |
| a-Matt Kuchar | 75-75 |
| Tom Lehman | 71-79 |
| John Lovell | 72-78 |
| Corey Pavin | 74-76 |
| David Shacklady | 76-74 |
| John Daly | 73-78 |
| Fredrik Henge | 75-76 |
| Skip Kendall | 74-77 |
| Stephen Leaney | 75-76 |
| Matt McGuire | 74-77 |
| Mark McNulty | 73-78 |
| Gary Player | 77-74 |
| Steve Allan | 72-80 |
| Howard Clark | 73-79 |
| Ross Drummond | 74-78 |
| Steven Young | 74-78 |
| Russell Claydon | 74-79 |
| Andrew Magee | 75-78 |
| Frank Nobilo | 76-77 |
| Steven Alker | 73-81 |
| Steven Armstrong | 76-78 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 76-78 |
| Mats Hallberg | 77-77 |
| Robert Karlsson | 72-82 |
| Daren Lee | 76-78 |
| Graham Spring | 74-80 |
| Mark Litton | 75-80 |
| Toru Suzuki | 78-77 |
| Stuart Appleby | 76-80 |
| Bradley Dredge | 78-78 |
| Greig Hutcheon | 73-83 |
| Gary Orr | 78-78 |
| Scott Henderson | 77-80 |
| Peter Hedblom | 76-82 |
| Jeff Remesy | 77-82 |
| Steve Elkington | 75-WD |
| Francis Howley | 78-WD |
| Miguel Angel Jimenez | 73-DQ |
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