{"id":1386536,"date":"2021-07-16T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1386536"},"modified":"2022-07-17T14:26:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T18:26:44","slug":"lowest-72-hole-score-the-open-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/lowest-72-hole-score-the-open-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Lowest 72-Hole Score at The Open Championship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Of all the great golfers<\/a> to win The Open Championship<\/a> over the years, just one, that being Sweden's Henrik Stenson, can say he owns the lowest 72-hole score at golf's oldest major, which was first played in 1860. At least that's what we could say until Australia's Cameron Smith matched the 20-under total with a brilliant performance at the 2022 Open Championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took nearly a century for a player to even finish at 10-under at The Open, as Peter Thomson became the first to do so in 1958 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, which makes the 20-under total all the more impressive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up until Stenson's run at Royal Troon in 2016, only two others had even come close to getting to 20-under, those being Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods<\/a>, the latter of whom holds two of the five lowest 72-hole scores in the history of The Open Championship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo each shot 18-under to win The Open Championship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Up until 1990, the lowest 72-hole score at The Open Championship was 14-under, which Lee Trevino shot at Royal Birkdale in 1971. But in 1990, Nick Faldo broke that record by four strokes with a phenomenal 18-under performance at St. Andrews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He opened his week with a 5-under round of 67 and was tied with Greg Norman<\/a> at 12-under after 36 holes following a second-round 65. A third-round 67 gave him a five-stroke lead after 54 holes, and he won by the same margin with a final-round 71. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2006 at Royal Liverpool, Tiger Woods also shot 18-under, shooting 67-65-71-67 in an emotional victory as it was his first win following his father's death just two months earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger Woods shot 19-under at St. Andrews in 2000 to complete the career Grand Slam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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