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Friday 5 July 1957Men’s majorsYear in Review
Locke wins the Open
St Andrews Links, St Andrews, Scotland · Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 July 1957 · purse £3,750
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 56° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R115°/11°C · wind 17 km/h E, gusts 33 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/12°C · wind 13 km/h E, gusts 21 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R317°/11°C · wind 15 km/h ESE, gusts 27 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- 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.
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Old Course, St Andrews, St Andrews
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Peter Thomson
To par not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1917-11-20, Germiston, South Africa; South Africa; age 39 at the win (year page); 4th major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet