2000 Open Championship

Tournament information
Dates	20–23 July 2000
Location	St Andrews, Scotland
Course	Old Course at St Andrews
Tour(s)	European Tour PGA Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	72[1]
Length	7,115 yards (6,506 m)[1]
Field	156 players, 74 after cut[1]
Cut	144 (E)[1]
Prize fund	£2,800,000 €4,447,480 $4,175,325
Winner's share	£500,000 €799,550 $759,150
Champion
Tiger Woods
269 (−19)
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St Andrews

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Location in Scotland

St Andrews 

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Location inFife, Scotland

The2000 Open Championship was amen's major golf championship and the 129thOpen Championship, held from 20 to 23 July at theOld Course inSt Andrews, Scotland.Tiger Woods, 24, won his first Open Championship and fourth major title, eight strokes ahead of runners-upThomas Bjørn andErnie Els.^[2]

With the victory, Woods became the fifth golfer and also youngest ever to complete a careerGrand Slam (winning the Open Championship, PGA Championship, Masters and U.S. Open in the course of a career), beatingJack Nicklaus' record by two years.^[3]He went on to complete the "Tiger Slam" – holding all four major championships simultaneously, as this Open Championship was preceded by the2000 U.S. Open atPebble Beach Golf Links and then followed by the2000 PGA Championship atValhalla Golf Club and the2001 Masters atAugusta National Golf Club.

At this Open, Woods also achieved the lowest 72-hole score in relation to par at −19, which was arecord for all major championships^[4][5] for fifteen years, untilJason Day broke it at thePGA Championship in2015 at twenty-under-par.

Woods became the sixth to win theU.S. Open and the Open Championship in the same year, joining fellow AmericansBobby Jones (1926,1930),Gene Sarazen (1932),Ben Hogan (1953),Lee Trevino (1971), andTom Watson (1982). Woods also became the second player after Nicklaus to win both an Open Championship at St Andrews and a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.^[6]

It was the first Open Championship to be telecast inhigh-definition television in any country, being telecast in the United States byABC Sports that year.

Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):^[1]

• 6,933 yards (6,340 m) -1995,1990,1984,1978
• 6,957 yards (6,361 m) -1970
• 6,926 yards (6,333 m) -1964,1960,1955

Thursday, 20 July 2000

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Ernie Els	66	−6
T2	Steve Flesch	67	−5
	Tiger Woods
T4	Scott Dunlap	68	−4
	Ian Garbutt
	Sergio García
	Pádraig Harrington
	Tom Lehman
	Shigeki Maruyama
	Dennis Paulson

Friday, 21 July 2000

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tiger Woods	67-66=133	−11
2	David Toms	69-67=136	−8
T3	Steve Flesch	67-70=137	−7
	Sergio García	68-69=137
	Loren Roberts	69-68=137
T6	Thomas Bjørn	69-69=138	−6
	Fred Couples	70-68=138
	Ernie Els	66-72=138
	Tom Lehman	68-70=138
	Phil Mickelson	72-66=138

Amateurs:Ilonen (+1),Donald (+4), Rowe (+4),Gossett (+5).

Saturday, 22 July 2000

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tiger Woods	67-66-67=200	−16
T2	Thomas Bjørn	69-69-68=206	−10
	David Duval	70-70-66=206
T4	Darren Clarke	70-69-68=207	-9
	Loren Roberts	69-68-70=207
	David Toms	69-67-71=207
T7	Ernie Els	66-72-70=208	−8
	Steve Flesch	67-70-71=208
	Tom Lehman	68-70-70=208
	Dennis Paulson	68-71-69=208

Sunday, 23 July 2000

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	Tiger Woods	67-66-67-69=269	−19	500,000
T2	Thomas Bjørn	69-69-68-71=277	−11	245,000
	Ernie Els	66-72-70-69=277
T4	Tom Lehman	68-70-70-70=278	−10	130,000
	David Toms	69-67-71-71=278
6	Fred Couples	70-68-72-69=279	−9	100,000
T7	Paul Azinger	69-72-72-67=280	−8	66,250
	Darren Clarke	70-69-68-73=280
	Pierre Fulke	69-72-70-69=280
	Loren Roberts	69-68-70-73=280

Source:^[2][8]

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	4	4
Woods	−16	−16	−16	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−18	−18	−19	−19	−20	−20	−20	−19	−19
Bjørn	−11	−11	−11	−10	−9	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11
Els	−9	−9	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11
Lehman	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10
Toms	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−10	−11	−12	−13	−13	−12	−12	−11	−11	−9	−10	−9	−10
Couples	−7	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−8	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9
Azinger	−4	−4	−5	−6	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8
Clarke	−10	−10	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−8	−8
Fulke	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8
Roberts	−9	−9	−9	−8	−9	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Source:^[9]

• St Andrews 2000 (Official site)
• 129th Open Championship - St Andrews (European Tour)
• Official Film onYouTube from the Open Championship (produced by Trans World Sport)

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