1930 British Open Winner and Scores
The 1930 British Open was the 65th time this major was played. And Bobby Jones won it on his way to claiming the single-season Grand Slam.
Winner: Bobby Jones, 291
Where it was played: Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England
Tournament dates: June 18-20, 1930
Leader after first round: Henry Cotton, Bobby Jones and Macdonald Smith, 70
Leader after second round: Bobby Jones, 142
Leader after third round: Archie Compston, 215
What Happened in the 1930 Open Championship
Bobby Jones won the "Grand Slam" in 1930, and his victory in the 1930 British Open was the second of his four Grand Slam wins. It followed by a week Jones' win at the British Amateur.By winning here, Jones became only the second golfer to win both the British Amateur and British Open in the same year. John Ball was the first to accomplish the feat in 1890.
Jones was in or near the lead throughout, his first-round 70 tying him atop the leaderboard. Jones moved one clear after the second round, but Englishman Archie Compston's third-round 68 moved Compston one stroke in front of Jones.
In the fourth round, however, Compston fell apart, carding an 82. Jones wasn't at his best, either, with a 75, but a brilliant greenside bunker shot on the 16th hole to within inches of the cup saved Jones' round.
Jones got into the clubhouse at 291, with Leo Diegel and Macdonald Smith still on the course having chances to catch him. Neither did; instead, Diegel and Smith tied for second, two strokes behind Jones.
This was the last time an amateur won the Open Championship.
Jones left Britain with half of the Grand Slam in his bag (at the time it was considered the British and U.S. opens, plus the British and U.S. amateurs). He went on to win the 1930 U.S. Open (where Macdonald Smith was again runner-up) in July and then the U.S. Amateur in September to complete the feat. At age 28, he retired from competitive golf following the 1930 season.
One exit of note this year: 1907 British Open champion Arnaud Massy missed the cut in his final appearance in an Open Championship. Also, Walter Hagen, who had won four Opens including the previous two, chose not to enter.
1930 British Open Final Scores
| a-Bobby Jones | 70-72-74-75—291 |
| Leo Diegel | 74-73-71-75—293 |
| Macdonald Smith | 70-77-75-71—293 |
| Fred Robson | 71-72-78-75—296 |
| Horton Smith | 72-73-78-73—296 |
| Jim Barnes | 71-77-72-77—297 |
| Archie Compston | 74-73-68-82—297 |
| Henry Cotton | 70-79-77-73—299 |
| Thomas Barber | 75-76-72-77—300 |
| Auguste Boyer | 73-77-70-80—300 |
| Charles Whitcombe | 74-75-72-79—300 |
| Bert Hodson | 74-77-76-74—301 |
| Abe Mitchell | 75-78-77-72—302 |
| Reg Whitcombe | 78-72-73-79—302 |
| a-Donald Moe | 74-73-76-80—303 |
| Philip Rodgers | 74-73-76-80—303 |
| Percy Alliss | 75-74-77-79—305 |
| William Large | 78-74-77-76—305 |
| Ernest Whitcombe | 80-72-76-77—305 |
| Arthur Young | 75-78-78-74—305 |
| Harry Crapper | 78-73-80-75—306 |
| Pierre Hirigoyen | 75-79-76-76—306 |
| Harry Large | 79-74-78-75—306 |
| Stewart Burns | 77-75-80-75—307 |
| William H. Davies | 78-77-73-79—307 |
| Arthur Lacey | 78-79-74-76—307 |
| Ted Ray | 78-75-76-78—307 |
| Norman Sutton | 72-80-76-79—307 |
| Tom Green | 73-79-78-78—308 |
| Duncan McCulloch | 78-78-79-74—309 |
| Alf Perry | 78-74-75-82—309 |
| Marcel Dallemagne | 79-72-79-80—310 |
| Len Holland | 75-78-80-77—310 |
| Albert Isherwood | 75-77-78-80—310 |
| Percy Weston | 81-77-76-76—310 |
| a-Lister Hartley | 79-78-79-75—311 |
| Edward Jarman | 76-76-79-80—311 |
| William Nolan | 78-79-74-80—311 |
| James Bradbeer | 77-77-76-82—312 |
| William Branch | 81-77-78-76—312 |
| Alf Padgham | 78-80-74-80—312 |
| Owen Sanderson | 83-74-77-78—312 |
| J.J. Taylor | 76-78-82-76—312 |
| George Gadd | 78-78-73-84—313 |
| D.C. Jones | 75-77-82-79—313 |
| Charles McIlvenny | 76-75-79-83—313 |
| William Twine | 78-78-78-79—313 |
| Ernest Kenyon | 79-76-79-80—314 |
| William McMinn | 82-75-77-80—314 |
| Bob Bradbeer | 81-74-80-81—316 |
| Sydney Fairweather | 77-78-79-82—316 |
| H. Rimmer | 79-79-79-80—317 |
| a-William Sutton | 78-76-81-82—317 |
| a-Cyril Tolley | 84-71-80-82—317 |
| a-Harry Bentley | 76-78-86-78—318 |
| Harry Kidd | 79-75-85-80—319 |
| C.W. Thomson | 81-74-81-83—319 |
| William Gimber | 76-78-81-85—320 |
| a-Raymond Oppenheimer | 79-78-82-82—321 |
| a-Donald Soulby | 75-82-82-83—322 |
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