1888 Open Championship
Encyclopedia
The 1888 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews
. Jack Burns
won the championship.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews
Old Course at St Andrews
The Old Course at St Andrews is the oldest golf course in the world. The Old Course is a public course over common land in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and is held in trust by The St Andrews Links Trust under an act of Parliament...
. Jack Burns
Jack Burns (golfer)
Jack Burns, a native of St Andrews, was a Scottish professional golfer.While employed as golf professional and greenkeeper at Warwick Golf Club in England, Burns won the 1888 Open Championship, which was held at the St Andrews Links that year...
won the championship.