1936 Open Championship
Encyclopedia
The 1936 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
. The competition was won by Alf Padgham
.
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 Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a leading golf club in Merseyside in North West England. It was founded in 1869 on what was then the racecourse of the Liverpool Hunt Club, and received the "Royal" designation in 1871 due to the patronage of the Duke of Connaught of the day, who was one of Queen...
. The competition was won by Alf Padgham
Alf Padgham
Alfred Harry Padgham was one of the leading British professional golfers of the 1930s and 1940s.Padgham was born in Caterham, Surrey...
.
Final leaderboard
| # | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alf Padgham Alf Padgham Alfred Harry Padgham was one of the leading British professional golfers of the 1930s and 1940s.Padgham was born in Caterham, Surrey... |
73-72-71-71=287 | -1 | |
| 2 | Jimmy Adams Jimmy Adams (golfer) James Adams was a Scottish professional golfer who was chosen for five Ryder Cup sides and achieved high finishes in The Open Championship on several occasions .... |
71-73-71-73=288 | E | |
| T3 | Henry Cotton | 73-72-70-74=289 | +1 | |
| Marcel Dallemagne Marcel Dallemagne Marcel Dallemagne was a French professional golfer who won several prestigious tournaments in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.-Tournament wins :*1927 Belgian Open*1930 French Closed Championship*1932 French Closed Championship*1931 Swiss Open... |
73-72-75-69=289 | |||
| T5 | Tom Green | 74-72-70-75=291 | +3 | |
| Gene Sarazen Gene Sarazen Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:U.S... |
73-75-70-73=291 | |||
| Percy Alliss Percy Alliss Percy Alliss was an English professional golfer. He was the father of commentator and former golfer Peter Alliss.... |
74-72-74-71=291 | |||
| T8 | Bobby Locke Bobby Locke Arthur D'Arcy "Bobby" Locke was the first internationally successful South African professional golfer. He won four Open Championships.-Early years:... (a) |
 South Africa |
75-73-72-74=294 | +6 |
| Reg Whitcombe Reg Whitcombe Reginald Arthur Whitcombe was an English professional golfer.Whitcombe began his career at Came Down Golf Club in Dorset and served in the British armed forces during World War I. He was the professional at Parkstone Golf Club from 1 January 1928 until his death in 1957... |
72-77-71-74=294 | |||
| Arthur Lacey Arthur Lacey Arthur Lacey was an English professional golfer who finished in the top ten of The Open Championship on a number of occasions in the 1930s... |
76-74-72-72=294 |
- (a) denotes amateur