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Sunday 17 July 2005European Tour · PGA TourYear in Review
Woods wins the Open
St Andrews Links, St Andrews, Scotland · Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 July 2005 · Tiger Woods’s win no. 44 on the European Tour · purse £4,000,000 GBP · 134th Open Championship
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
16 h 45 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R119°/14°C · wind 22 km/h WSW, gusts 43 · 1.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R218°/14°C · wind 19 km/h W, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R320°/12°C · wind 26 km/h W, gusts 42 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R422°/16°C · wind 21 km/h SW, gusts 37 · 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
- Colin Montgomerie SCO · 279Birdied the 3rd and 5th to get within one of Woods, but went through the back of the short 11th for a bogey (he said the wind switched and he hit the wrong club), bogeyed 13 and 15 as Woods birdied 12 Tiger holds off rivals (BBC Sport)
156 started · cut +1, 80 made it
Same week
Men's major
The Open
Old Course, St Andrews, St Andrews
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Colin Montgomerie
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
17 July 2005
Jack's got 18, now I have 10. Man, I tell you what, I honestly when I first started playing the Tour, I didn't think I'd have this many majors before the age of 30.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
17 July 2005
And to have won it twice and complete my career Grand Slam twice, it doesn't get any sweeter than that.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
17 July 2005
Even when they realized I wasn't going to win, they realized my job in hand was to try to finish second. And they helped me to that cause.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiger Woods | 66 · 67 · 71 · 70 | 274 | −14 |
| 2 | Colin Montgomerie | 71 · 66 · 70 · 72 | 279 | −9 |
| T3 | José María Olazábal | 68 · 70 · 68 · 74 | 280 | −8 |
| T3 | Fred Couples | 68 · 71 · 73 · 68 | 280 | −8 |
| T5 | Sergio Garcia | 70 · 69 · 69 · 73 | 281 | −7 |
| T5 | Retief Goosen | 68 · 73 · 66 · 74 | 281 | −7 |
| T5 | Bernhard Langer | 71 · 69 · 70 · 71 | 281 | −7 |
| T5 | Geoff Ogilvy | 71 · 74 · 67 · 69 | 281 | −7 |
| T5 | Vijay Singh | 69 · 69 · 71 · 72 | 281 | −7 |
| T5 | Michael Campbell | 69 · 72 · 68 · 72 | 281 | −7 |
The golfer
born 1975-12-30, Cypress, California; USA; turned pro 1996; age 29 that week; tour wins to date: 44; majors to date: 10; world No. 1 that week (OWGR rankBefore (owgr.com player profile, THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 2005); BBC calls him 'the world number one').
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