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Friday 19 June 1908Men’s majorsYear in Review

Braid wins the Open

Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick, Scotland · Thursday 18 to Friday 19 June 1908 · purse £125 · winner's share £50

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

17 h 13 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 58° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
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  4. R4Not yet researched

The name over time

  1. The Open

1860–2026 in our record, 154 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

65 started

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Men's major

The Open

Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick

2 of 5 researched

Winner

James Braid

291Total
8 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Tom Ball

To par not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1870-02-06, Earlsferry, Scotland; Scotland; age 38 at the win (year page); 4th major (card's count)

James Braid’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet