1946 Open Championship
Encyclopedia
The 1946 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews
. The competition was won by Sam Snead
.
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...
. The competition was won by Sam Snead
Sam Snead
Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven majors. He failed to win a U.S...
.
Final leaderboard
| # | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Snead Sam Snead Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events including seven majors. He failed to win a U.S... |
71-70-74-75=290 | +2 | |
| T2 | Johnny Bulla Johnny Bulla John Guthrie Bulla was an American professional golfer.Bulla was born in Newell, West Virginia. He played on the PGA Tour, winning the 1941 Los Angeles Open, and finished runner-up three times in the majors, including twice to Sam Snead at the 1946 British Open and 1949 Masters... |
71-72-72-79=294 | +6 | |
| 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:... |
 South Africa |
69-74-75-76=294 | ||
| T4 | Dai Rees Dai Rees David James Rees, CBE was one of the Britain's leading golfers either side of World War II.The winner of many prestigious tournaments in Britain, Europe and farther afield, Rees is best remembered as the captain of the Great Britain Ryder Cup team which defeated the United States at Lindrick Golf... |
75-67-73-80=295 | +7 | |
| Henry Cotton | 70-70-76-79=295 | |||
| Charlie Ward Charlie Ward (golfer) Charles Harold Ward was a prominent English golfer of the 1940s, winner of the British Order of Merit in both 1948 and 1949, and twice finishing third in The Open Championship, in 1948 and 1951... |
73-73-73-76=295 | |||
| Norman Von Nida Norman Von Nida Norman Guy Von Nida was an Australian professional golfer.Von Nida was born in Strathfield and grew up in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur aged just 18... |
70-76-74-75=295 | |||
| T8 | Joe Kirkwood | 71-75-78-74=298 | +10 | |
| Fred Daly Fred Daly (golfer) Frederick Daly was a Northern Irish professional golfer who was best known for winning The Open Championship of 1947 at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake.Daly was born in Portrush, County Antrim... |
77-71-76-74=298 | |||
| 10 | Lawson Little Lawson Little William Lawson Little, Jr. was an American professional golfer who also had a distinguished amateur career.... |
78-75-72-74=290 | +12 |