1894 British Open Winner and Scores
Winner: J.H. Taylor, 326
Where it was played: Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England
Tournament dates: June 11-12, 1894
Leader after first round: Sandy Herd, 83
Leader after second round: J.H. Taylor, 164
Leader after third round: J.H. Taylor, 245
What Happened in the 1894 Open Championship
When J.H. Taylor won the 1894 British Open, it marked the beginning of an era of dominance by Britain's "Great Triumvirate": Taylor, Harry Vardon and James Braid won 16 of the 21 Open Championships played from 1894 through 1914. Taylor accounted for five of those victories.So the Great Triumvirate made a debut of sorts here, and so did something else: Royal St. George's Golf Club (although it did not yet have the "Royal" monicker at the time) hosted The Open for the first time.
The links in Sandwich, England, opened in 1887, was the site of the British Amateur in 1892, and at the 1894 British Open became the first club outside Scotland to host the Open. Royal St. George's remains a part of the British Open rota today.
Taylor's winning score was 326, five clear of the runner-up, and is the highest winning total (for 72 holes) in tournament history. And fitting for the first Open played in England, Taylor was the first English pro to win it. Two other Englishmen had been Open champions, but both John Ball and Harold Hilton were amateurs.
While Taylor was winning the Open for the first time, his future rival Braid was merely playing it for the first time. Braid finished 10th in his debut.
1894 British Open Final Scores
| J.H. Taylor | 84-80-81-81—326 |
| Douglas Rolland | 86-79-84-82—331 |
| Andrew Kirkaldy | 86-79-83-84—332 |
| Alfred Toogood | 84-85-82-82—333 |
| Willie Fernie | 84-84-86-80—334 |
| Ben Sayers | 85-81-84-84—334 |
| Harry Vardon | 86-86-82-80—334 |
| Sandy Herd | 83-85-82-88—338 |
| a-Freddie Tait | 90-83-83-84—340 |
| a-A.D. Blyth | 91-84-84-82—341 |
| James Braid | 91-84-82-84—341 |
| Willie Park Jr. | 88-86-82-87—343 |
| a-John Ball | 84-89-87-84—344 |
| David Brown | 93-83-81-87—344 |
| Hugh Kirkaldy | 90-85-80-89—344 |
| Archie Simpson | 90-86-86-82—344 |
| Joseph Lloyd | 95-81-86-83—345 |
| a-Samuel Mure Fergusson | 87-88-84-87—346 |
| Tom Vardon | 87-88-82-91—348 |
| a-C.E. Dick | 85-89-89-90—353 |
| David Grant | 91-84-87-91—353 |
| David Herd | 92-93-84-84—353 |
| Willie Auchterlonie | 96-81-93-85—355 |
| a-C.E. Hambro | 96-90-82-87—355 |
| Jack Rowe | 90-90-84-91—355 |
| a-Stuart Anderson | 90-87-91-88—356 |
| a-Charles Hutchings | 93-85-88-90—356 |
| Charles Gibson | 92-94-87-84—357 |
| Rowland Jones | 89-88-93-88—358 |
| Alexander Lumsden | 90-93-87-89—359 |
| David McEwan | 86-92-91-92—361 |
| Albert Tingey | 90-91-90-90—361 |
| Willie Aveston | 98-88-89-88—363 |
| a-F.S. Ireland | 99-87-92-86—364 |
| a-Alexander Stuart | 88-95-96-86—365 |
| George Pearson | 94-96-88-88—366 |
| William Tucker | 92-94-91-89—366 |
| Joseph Longhurst | 91-93-92-91—367 |
| Jack Simpson | 94-89-94-90—367 |
| Thomas Butel | 91-94-92-91—368 |
| James Kay | 98-89-90-91—368 |
| C. Ralph Smith | 98-89-89-93—369 |
| a-John Low | 93-98-89-91—371 |
| John Cuthbert | 97-96-88-92—373 |
| Jack Burns | 93-97-90-95—375 |
| L.G. Ross | 92-98-90-96—376 |
| a-Bruce Goff | 98-92-88-99—377 |
| John Milne | 98-98-91-90—377 |
| R.W. Kirk | 98-97-94-93—382 |
| a-Ernest Lehmann | 91-98-94-99—382 |
| J. Boyd | 103-96-95-90—384 |
| C. Thom | 97-102-99-90—388 |
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