1957 Open Championship
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The 1957 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews
. The competition was won by Bobby Locke
.
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 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:...
.
Final leaderboard
| # | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 |
69-72-68-70=279 | -9 |
| 2 | Peter Thomson | 73-69-70-70=282 | -6 | |
| 3 | Eric Brown Eric Brown (golfer) Eric Chalmers Brown was a Scottish professional golfer.Brown was born in Bathgate and played at the local golf course. He represented Great Britain in the Ryder Cup in 1953, 1955, 1957 and 1959 and had a 4-4-0 win-loss-half record. He won all of his four singles matches but lost his four foursomes... |
67-72-73-71=283 | -5 | |
| 4 | Ángel Miguel Ángel Miguel Ángel Miguel was a Spanish professional golfer. He is often regarded as one of the pioneers of golf in Spain.... |
72-72-69-72=285 | -3 | |
| T5 | Tom Haliburton | 72-73-68-73=286 | -2 | |
| Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck was a Belgian professional golfer.Van Donck is widely regarded as the greatest ever Belgian golfer. During his career, he won more than fifty tournaments worldwide, including many of the most prestigious national opens of Europe... |
72-68-74-72=286 | |||
| W. D. Smith (a) | 71-72-72-71=286 | |||
| Dave Thomas Dave Thomas (golfer) David Charles Thomas is a Welsh professional golfer and renowned golf course architect.Thomas was one of Britain's leading golfers during the 1950s and 1960s with many tournament victories around Europe, including the News of the World Match Play and the Belgian, Dutch and French Open championships... |
72-74-70-70=286 | |||
| T9 | Antonio Cerdá Antonio Cerdá Antonio Cerdá is an Argentine professional golfer.Cerdá finished second in the 1951 British Open to Max Faulkner, and second in the 1953 British Open to Ben Hogan, among seven consecutive top-ten finishes in the championship. He won several national opens in Europe in the 1950s and won the first... |
71-71-72-73=287 | -1 | |
| Max Faulkner Max Faulkner Herbert Gustavus Max Faulkner, OBE was an English professional golfer who won The Open Championship in 1951 and was renowned for his colourful dress sense.... |
74-70-71-72=287 | |||
| Henry Cotton | 74-72-69-72=287 |
- (a) denotes amateur