1998 Open Championship
Player Country Year ( s ) won R1 R2 R3 R4 Total To par Finish
Sandy Lyle Scotland 1985 71 72 75 72 290 +10 T19
Nick Price Zimbabwe 1994 66 72 82 72 292 +12 T29
Mark Calcavecchia United States 1989 69 77 73 74 293 +13 T35
Nick Faldo England 1987 , 1990 , 1992 72 73 75 75 295 +15 T44
Justin Leonard United States 1997 73 73 82 69 297 +17 T57
Past champions in the field -- Made the cut
The 1998 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 127th Open Championship, held from 16-19 July at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. In weekend wind and rain, Mark O'Meara won his second major championship of the year and first Open Championship in a playoff over Brian Watts, the 54-hole leader. Three months earlier, O'Meara won the Masters on the final green by sinking a birdie putt. At age 41, he became the oldest player to win two majors in a year: Jack Nicklaus (1980), Ben Hogan (1953), and Craig Wood (1941) were all age forty. (Hogan won three majors and turned 41 two weeks after the third.) At the previous Open at Royal Birkdale seven years earlier in 1991, O'Meara was a co-leader after 54 holes, shot 69, and tied for