2006 Open Championship: Tiger Woods wins at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Tiger Woods won the 2006 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England with 270 (−18), by 2 strokes over Chris DiMarco.
Updated October 23, 2026
See 2006 in The Open room, or every year on The Open winners list.
- Dates
- 20 July 2006 to 23 July 2006
- Course
- Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England
- Edition
- 135th Open Championship
- Format
- 72 holes of stroke play
- Par
- 72
- Purse
- £4,000,000 · winner's share £720,000
- Trophy
- Claret Jug (replica to winner)
- Champion
- Tiger Woods · age 30 · USA · born Cypress, USA
- Champion's title
- 3rd Open title
- World ranking entering
- No. 1
- Winning score
- 67-65-71-67 = 270 (−18) · won by 2 strokes
- Runner-up
- Chris DiMarco (272)
- 54-hole leader
- Tiger Woods (203)
- Deciding hole
- No. 14, round 4
- Caddie
- Steve Williams
- Low amateur
- Marius Thorp (288)
Top 10 as recorded
| Pos. | Player | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiger Woods | 67 | 65 | 71 | 67 | 270 | −18 |
| 2 | Chris DiMarco | 70 | 65 | 69 | 68 | 272 | −16 |
| 3 | Ernie Els | 68 | 65 | 71 | 71 | 275 | −13 |
| 4 | Jim Furyk | 68 | 71 | 66 | 71 | 276 | −12 |
| T5 | Sergio García | 68 | 71 | 65 | 73 | 277 | −11 |
| T5 | Hideto Tanihara | 72 | 68 | 66 | 71 | 277 | −11 |
| 7 | Ángel Cabrera | 71 | 68 | 66 | 73 | 278 | −10 |
| T8 | Carl Pettersson | 68 | 72 | 70 | 69 | 279 | −9 |
| T8 | Adam Scott | 68 | 69 | 70 | 72 | 279 | −9 |
| T8 | Andrés Romero | 70 | 70 | 68 | 71 | 279 | −9 |
What happened at the 2006 Open Championship
On the baked, fast-running Hoylake links Woods hit driver only once all week and played irons off nearly every tee.
Woods holed out with a 4-iron from 212 yards for an eagle at the 14th in his second-round 65.
Woods made three birdies in a row from the 14th, which the R&A says it took "to finally shake off" Chris DiMarco.
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).