1999 Open Championship

1999 Open Championship
Tournament information
Dates	15–18 July 1999
Location	Angus, Scotland
Course(s)	Carnoustie Golf Links Championship Course
Organized by	The R&A
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour
Statistics
Par	71^[1]
Length	7,361 yards (6,731 m)^[1]
Field	156 players, 73 after cut^[1]
Cut	154 (+12)^[1]
Prize fund	£2,000,000 €2,850,260 $3,058,500
Winner's share	£350,000 €490,000 $577,500
Champion
Paul Lawrie
290 (+6), playoff
«1998 2000»

Carnoustie

Location in Scotland

The 1999 Open Championship was the 128th Open Championship, held 15–18 July at the Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, Scotland.

Paul Lawrie won his only major championship in a playoff over Jean van de Velde and Justin Leonard.^[2] Lawrie, down by ten strokes at the start of the fourth round,^[3] completed the biggest final round comeback in major championship history,^[4]^[5] headlined by van de Velde's triple-bogey at the last hole.^[6]

The collapse

Van de Velde, who was in control through the latter half of the championship, held a seemingly insurmountable three-stroke lead going into the 72nd hole.^[7] He teed off with a driver, which was heavily criticized by the ABC broadcast team, and pushed his shot far to the right, over the water bordering the right side of the 18th fairway, and onto the 17th hole. He later claimed that he thought the lead was only two strokes, which is why he chose not to go with a safe club, such as an iron. Choosing not to simply lay up with a wedge, van de Velde went for the green on his second shot with a two iron. His second shot came to rest in an area of knee-deep rough after his ball bounced backward 50 yards off the grandstand next to the 18th green and off of a rock in the Barry Burn. Had the ball stayed in the grandstand he would have been able to drop without penalty. Then the thick Carnoustie grass stifled him again, as his third shot went into the burn in front of the green. Van de Velde took his shoes and socks off and entered the burn, considering an attempt to play the ball from the water. He decided against it and instead took a drop (fourth stroke), at which point he hit his fifth shot into one of the deep greenside bunkers. He pitched out safely and holed the eight-foot putt on his seventh shot for a triple-bogey. This forced the three-man playoff, which he eventually lost.^[8]^[9]

Due to the three-stroke lead van de Velde had going into the final hole, his name had already been engraved into the Claret Jug. Following his collapse, the engraver had to scratch through van de Velde's name and then engrave Paul Lawrie's name into it. Beginning with the 2000 Open, the winning golfer's name is no longer engraved into the Claret Jug until after his scorecard is signed by the golfer and verified by tournament officials. Van de Velde's play on this hole is still widely considered^[9] to be the worst "choke" in golfing history, and some have even used the term "pulling a van de Velde" to describe similar events.^[10]

Course layout

Carnoustie Golf Links - Championship Course

Hole	Name	Yards	Par	Hole	Name	Yards	Par
1	Cup	407	4	10	South America	466	4
2	Gulley	462	4	11	Dyke	383	4
3	Jockie's Burn	342	4	12	Southward Ho	479	4
4	Hillocks	412	4	13	Whins	169	3
5	Brae	411	4	14	Spectacles	515	5
6	Long ^	578	5	15	Lucky Slap	472	4
7	Plantation	412	4	16	Barry Burn	250	3
8	Short	183	3	17	Island	459	4
9	Railway	474	4	18	Home	487	4
Out		3,681	36	In		3,680	35
Source:^[11]				Total		7,361	71

^ The 6th hole was renamed Hogan's Alley in 2003

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):^[1]

1975: 7,065 yards (6,460 m), par 72
1968: 7,252 yards (6,631 m), par 72
1953: 7,200 yards (6,584 m), par 72

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Finish
Justin Leonard	United States	1997	73	74	71	72	290	+6	T2
Greg Norman	Australia	1986, 1993	76	70	75	72	293	+9	6
Nick Price	Zimbabwe	1994	77	74	73	77	301	+17	T37

Missed the cut

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	Total	To par
Tom Watson	United States	1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983	82	73	155	+13
Tom Lehman	United States	1996	76	80	156	+14
Nick Faldo	England	1987, 1990, 1992	78	79	157	+15
Mark O'Meara	United States	1998	83	74	157	+15
Mark Calcavecchia	United States	1989	78	81	159	+17
Bob Charles	New Zealand	1963	83	81	164	+22
Gary Player	South Africa	1959, 1968, 1974	81	83	164	+22
Seve Ballesteros	Spain	1979, 1984, 1988	80	86	166	+24
Sandy Lyle	Scotland	1985	85	81	166	+24
Tony Jacklin	England	1969	85	82	167	+25

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, 15 July 1999

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Rod Pampling	Australia	71	E
T2	Scott Dunlap	United States	72	+1
T2	Bernhard Langer	Germany	72	+1
T4	Dudley Hart	United States	73	+2
	Paul Lawrie	Scotland
	Justin Leonard	United States
	Mark McNulty	Zimbabwe
	Len Mattiace	United States
	Steve Pate	United States
	Hal Sutton	United States

Second round

Friday, 16 July 1999

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jean van de Velde	France	75-68=143	+1
2	Ángel Cabrera	Argentina	75-69=144	+2
3	Jesper Parnevik	Sweden	74-71=145	+3
T4	Greg Norman	Australia	76-70=146	+4
	Patrik Sjöland	Sweden	74-72=146
	Tiger Woods	United States	74-72=146
T7	Bradley Hughes	Australia	76-71=147	+5
	Paul Lawrie	Scotland	73-74=147
	Justin Leonard	United States	73-74=147
	Len Mattiace	United States	73-74=147
	Brian Watts	United States	74-73=147

Amateurs: Donald (+14), Gribben (+18), Storm (+19), Scotland (+21).

Third round

Saturday, 17 July 1999

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jean van de Velde	France	75-68-70=213	E
T2	Justin Leonard	United States	73-74-71=218	+5
T2	Craig Parry	Australia	76-75-67=218	+5
T4	Andrew Coltart	Scotland	74-74-72=220	+7
	David Frost	South Africa	80-69-71=220
	Tiger Woods	United States	74-72-74=220
T7	Ángel Cabrera	Argentina	75-69-77=221	+8
T7	Greg Norman	Australia	76-70-75=221	+8
T9	Bernhard Langer	Germany	72-77-73=222	+9
	Miguel Ángel Martín	Spain	74-76-72=222
	Len Mattiace	United States	73-74-75=222
	Colin Montgomerie	Scotland	74-76-72=222
	Frank Nobilo	New Zealand	76-76-70=222

Final round

Sunday, 18 July 1999

Paul Lawrie completed the biggest final round comeback in major championship and PGA Tour history by coming back from 10 strokes behind in the final round, and winning the subsequent three-man playoff.^[2]^[3]^[6]

Jean van de Velde started the day with a five-stroke lead over Craig Parry and Justin Leonard, but trailed Parry by a stroke at the 12th hole, as Parry was –3 for the day through 11, while Van de Velde was +3. However, Parry could not escape the thick rough on the 12th hole on his way to a triple bogey while Van de Velde regained sole possession of the lead with a bogey. Parry then bogeyed 13, drove into the fairway bunker at 14 to deny himself a birdie chance, and missed a two-foot (0.6 m) putt on 17 en route to a double bogey. He holed a bunker shot on 18 to finish one stroke out of the playoff.

In the meantime, Leonard tied van de Velde for the lead with a birdie on 14, but made bogeys at 15 and 18 as his second shot landed in the barry burn as Van de Velde birdied 14 - leaving him three strokes behind, tied with Lawrie in the clubhouse at 6-over-par. Ángel Cabrera had a chance to join the clubhouse lead but lipped out a birdie putt on 18.

After the birdie on 14, Van de Velde missed the next three greens but got up-and-down each time to give himself a three stroke lead going into 18 where a triple bogey dropped him into a playoff.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (£)
T1	Paul Lawrie	Scotland	73-74-76-67=290	+6	Playoff
	Justin Leonard	United States	73-74-71-72=290
	Jean van de Velde	France	75-68-70-77=290
T4	Ángel Cabrera	Argentina	75-69-77-70=291	+7	100,000
T4	Craig Parry	Australia	76-75-67-73=291	+7	100,000
6	Greg Norman	Australia	76-70-75-72=293	+9	70,000
T7	David Frost	South Africa	80-69-71-74=294	+10	50,000
	Tiger Woods	United States	74-72-74-74=294
	Davis Love III	United States	74-74-77-69=294
T10	Hal Sutton	United States	73-78-72-72=295	+11	34,800
	Scott Dunlap	United States	72-77-76-70=295
	Jim Furyk	United States	78-71-76-70=295
	Retief Goosen	South Africa	76-75-73-71=295
	Jesper Parnevik	Sweden	74-71-78-72=295

Source:^[12]^[13]^[14]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	4
Lawrie	+10	+10	+9	+9	+10	+9	+9	+8	+8	+8	+8	+7	+8	+7	+7	+7	+6	+6
Leonard	+5	+5	+5	+5	+5	+4	+4	+4	+4	+5	+5	+5	+5	+4	+5	+5	+5	+6
van de Velde	E	E	+1	+1	+2	+2	+2	+3	+2	+2	+3	+4	+4	+3	+3	+3	+3	+6
Cabrera	+8	+8	+7	+7	+7	+7	+7	+7	+7	+7	+6	+6	+7	+7	+7	+7	+7	+7
Parry	+5	+5	+4	+4	+4	+4	+4	+3	+3	+2	+2	+5	+6	+6	+6	+6	+8	+7

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:^[14]

Playoff

The four-hole aggregate playoff was played on the final four holes (#15-18), three par fours and one par three (#16). All three players hit poor drives on the first playoff hole. Van de Velde was forced to take an unplayable and took double bogey to fall one stroke behind Lawrie and Leonard who both had bogeys. All three players missed the green on the second playoff hole and took bogeys. On the third playoff hole, Van de Velde made birdie to briefly create a three-way tie, but Lawrie followed with a birdie of his own to take a one-stroke lead into the final playoff hole. On the final playoff hole, Van de Velde found the rough and Leonard found the water en route to bogeys while Lawrie hit a 4-iron to four feet for a clinching birdie and the championship.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	Paul Lawrie	Scotland	5-4-3-3=15	E	350,000
T2	Justin Leonard	United States	5-4-4-5=18	+3	185,000
T2	Jean van de Velde	France	6-4-3-5=18	+3	185,000

Scorecard

Hole	15	16	17	18
Par	4	3	4	4
Lawrie	+1	+2	+1	E
Leonard	+1	+2	+2	+3
van de Velde	+2	+3	+2	+3

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par
Source:^[14]

References

1 2 3 4 5 "Media guide". The Open Championship. 2011. pp. 31, 203. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
1 2 Bonk, Thomas (19 July 1999). "Gift-wrapped Claret Jug to Lawrie". Eugene Register-Guard. Oregon. (Los Angeles Times). p. 1B.
1 2 Shapiro, Leonard (19 July 1999). "Out of darkness, it's Lawrie". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. (Washington Post). p. C1.
↑ Ferguson, Doug (19 July 1999). "A Scottish fairy tale". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. p. B1.
↑ Brown, Clifton (19 July 1999). "Van de Velde self-destructs, Lawrie wins". Toledo Blade. Ohio. (New York Times). p. 23.
1 2 Garrity, John (26 July 1999). "Down the drain". Sports Illustrated.
↑ Logan, Joe (19 July 1999). "Great Scot! It's Lawrie". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. p. 1C.
↑ Dahlberg, Tim (19 July 1999). "Decisions cost Frenchman". Toledo Blade. Ohio. Associated Press. p. 27.
1 2 "Lawrie wins dramatic Open". BBC News. 19 July 1999. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
↑ "Romero pulls a Van de Velde one hole early". NBC Sports. 22 July 2007. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
↑ "128th Open Championship: course map". Toledo Blade. Ohio. Associated Press. 15 July 1999. p. 32.
↑ "1999 Open Championship results". databasegolf.com. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
↑ "Results: British Open". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 19 July 1999. p. B-3.
1 2 3 "Anatomy of the final round". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 19 July 1999. p. 3C.

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