1874 Open Championship: Mungo Park wins at Musselburgh Links (9-hole)
Mungo Park won the 1874 Open Championship at Musselburgh Links (9-hole), Scotland with 159, by 2 strokes over Tom Morris Jr.
Updated October 23, 2026
See 1874 in The Open room, or every year on The Open winners list.
- Dates
- 10 April 1874
- Course
- Musselburgh Links (9-hole), Scotland
- Edition
- 14th Open Championship
- Format
- 36 holes of stroke play
- Purse
- £20
- Trophy
- Claret Jug
- Champion
- Mungo Park · age 37 · Scotland · born Musselburgh, Scotland
- Champion's title
- 1st Open title
- How he got in
- open entry (no qualifying)
- Winning score
- 75-84 = 159 · won by 2 strokes
- Runner-up
- Tom Morris Jr (161)
- Deciding hole
- No. 9, round 2
- Low amateur
- T. Hunter (174)
Top 12 as recorded
| Pos. | Player | R1 | R2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mungo Park | 75 | 84 | 159 |
| 2 | Tom Morris Jr | 83 | 78 | 161 |
| 3 | George Paxton | 80 | 82 | 162 |
| 4 | Bob Martin | 85 | 79 | 164 |
| 5 | Jamie Anderson | 82 | 83 | 165 |
| T6 | W. Thomson | 84 | 82 | 166 |
| T6 | David Park | 83 | 83 | 166 |
| T8 | Tom Kidd | 84 | 83 | 167 |
| T8 | Bob Ferguson | 83 | 84 | 167 |
| T10 | J.O.F. Morris | 88 | 81 | 169 |
| T10 | G. McCachnie | 79 | 90 | 169 |
| T10 | John Ferguson | 87 | 82 | 169 |
What happened at the 1874 Open Championship
Mungo Park, Willie Park Sr's brother who had spent much of his early life at sea, won the first Open at Musselburgh.
In his last Open, Young Tom Morris missed a short putt at the penultimate hole and drove through the last green to lose by two.
Young Tom Morris missed a short putt at the penultimate hole and dropped two shots at the last (the 9th, on the final loop of Musselburgh's 9-hole course) when he drove through the green, losing to Mungo Park by two.
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's The Open data. A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the organizer's own record is used.
Data: the-open.json (The Open room's data), with GNN's Open Championship addendum tables L (top ten by round), H (deciding hole), W (final-day weather).