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2000 Open Championship

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The 2000 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 129th Open Championship, held from 20 to 23 July at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. Tiger Woods, 24, won his first Open Championship and fourth major title, eight strokes ahead of runners-up Thomas Bjørn and Ernie Els.

With the victory, Woods became the fifth golfer and also youngest ever to complete a career Grand Slam (winning the Open Championship, PGA Championship, Masters and U.S. Open in the course of a career), beating Jack Nicklaus' record by two years. He went on to complete the "Tiger Slam", holding all four major championships simultaneously, as this Open Championship was preceded by the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links and then followed by the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club and the 2001 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.

At this Open, Woods also achieved the lowest 72-hole score in relation to par at −19, which was a record for all major championships for fifteen years, until Jason Day broke it at the PGA Championship in 2015 at twenty-under-par.

Woods became the sixth to win the U.S. Open and the Open Championship in the same year, joining fellow Americans Bobby Jones (1926, 1930), Gene Sarazen (1932), Ben Hogan (1953), Lee Trevino (1971), and Tom Watson (1982). Woods also became the second player after Nicklaus to win both an Open Championship at St Andrews and a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.

Defending champion Paul Lawrie shot 78-75 to miss the 36-hole cut by nine strokes.

It was the first Open Championship to be telecast in high-definition television in any country, being telecast in the United States by ABC Sports that year.

01Course

Hole	Name	Yards	Par	Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Burn	376	4	10	Bobby Jones	379	4
2	Dyke	413	4	11	High (In)	174	3
3	Cartgate (Out)	397	4	12	Heathery (In)	314	4
4	Ginger Beer	464	4	13	Hole O'Cross (In)	430	4
5	Hole O'Cross (Out)	568	5	14	Long	581	5
6	Heathery (Out)	412	4	15	Cartgate (In)	456	4
7	High (Out)	388	4	16	Corner of the Dyke	424	4
8	Short	175	3	17	Road	455	4
9	End	352	4	18	Tom Morris	357	4
Out		3,545	36	In		3,570	36
Source:				Total		7,115	72

Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):

6,933 yards (6,340 m) - 1995, 1990, 1984, 1978
6,957 yards (6,361 m) - 1970
6,926 yards (6,333 m) - 1964, 1960, 1955

02Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 20 July 2000

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Ernie Els	66	−6
T2	Steve Flesch	67	−5
T2	Tiger Woods	67	−5
T4	Scott Dunlap	68	−4
	Ian Garbutt
	Sergio García
	Pádraig Harrington
	Tom Lehman
	Shigeki Maruyama
	Dennis Paulson

Second round

Friday, 21 July 2000

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tiger Woods	67-66=133	−11
2	David Toms	69-67=136	−8
T3	Steve Flesch	67-70=137	−7
	Sergio García	68-69=137
	Loren Roberts	69-68=137
T6	Thomas Bjørn	69-69=138	−6
	Fred Couples	70-68=138
	Ernie Els	66-72=138
	Tom Lehman	68-70=138
	Phil Mickelson	72-66=138

Amateurs: Ilonen (+1), Donald (+4), Rowe (+4), Gossett (+5).

Third round

Saturday, 22 July 2000

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Tiger Woods	67-66-67=200	−16
T2	Thomas Bjørn	69-69-68=206	−10
T2	David Duval	70-70-66=206	−10
T4	Darren Clarke	70-69-68=207	-9
	Loren Roberts	69-68-70=207
	David Toms	69-67-71=207
T7	Ernie Els	66-72-70=208	−8
	Steve Flesch	67-70-71=208
	Tom Lehman	68-70-70=208
	Dennis Paulson	68-71-69=208

Final round

Sunday, 23 July 2000

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	Tiger Woods	67-66-67-69=269	−19	500,000
T2	Thomas Bjørn	69-69-68-71=277	−11	245,000
T2	Ernie Els	66-72-70-69=277	−11	245,000
T4	Tom Lehman	68-70-70-70=278	−10	130,000
T4	David Toms	69-67-71-71=278	−10	130,000
6	Fred Couples	70-68-72-69=279	−9	100,000
T7	Paul Azinger	69-72-72-67=280	−8	66,250
	Darren Clarke	70-69-68-73=280
	Pierre Fulke	69-72-70-69=280
	Loren Roberts	69-68-70-73=280

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Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	4	4
Woods	−16	−16	−16	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−18	−18	−19	−19	−20	−20	−20	−19	−19
Bjørn	−11	−11	−11	−10	−9	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11
Els	−9	−9	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11
Lehman	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10
Toms	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−10	−11	−12	−13	−13	−12	−12	−11	−11	−9	−10	−9	−10
Couples	−7	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−8	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9
Azinger	−4	−4	−5	−6	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8
Clarke	−10	−10	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−8	−8
Fulke	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8
Roberts	−9	−9	−9	−8	−9	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

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