MEN’S MAJOR · 2002

2002 Open Championship

Status: Final
Dates: Jul 18 – Jul 21, 2002
Course: Muirfield
Par / Yards: 71 / 7,034
Field: 156 · 83 made cut
Cut: 144 (+2)
Finish: Playoff

Top finishers only 13 of 13 published rows linked to verified identities

LEADERBOARD

Final leaderboard (published rows)

Top finishers only. Small figures: strokes better (+) or worse (−) than that round’s field average.
Pos	Player	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par
1	Ernie ElsSouth Africa	70	66	72	70	278	−6
T2	Stuart ApplebyAustralia	73	70	70	65	278	−6
T2	Steve Elkington	71	73	68	66	278	−6
T2	Thomas LevetFrance	72	66	74	66	278	−6
T5	Shigeki MaruyamaJapan	68	68	75	68	279	−5
T5	Gary EvansUnited Kingdom	72	68	74	65	279	−5
T5	Pádraig HarringtonIreland	69	67	76	67	279	−5
T8	Scott HochUnited States	74	69	71	66	280	−4
T8	Søren HansenKingdom of Denmark	68	69	73	70	280	−4
T8	Thomas BjørnKingdom of Denmark	68	70	73	69	280	−4
T8	Retief GoosenSouth Africa	71	68	74	67	280	−4
T8	Peter O'MalleyAustralia	72	68	75	65	280	−4
T8	Sergio García FernándezSpain	71	69	71	69	280	−4

HOLE BY HOLE

Final-round scorecards

Hole scores derived from the source article’s published final-round scorecard; each card is accepted only when its strokes reproduce the player’s published round score exactly.

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Tot
Par	4	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	71
Yds	448	351	378	213	560	468	185	443	508	475	389	381	191	448	415	186	546	449	7034
Ernie Els	5	4	3	3	5	4	3	4	4	3	4	3	3	5	4	5	4	4	70
Stuart Appleby	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	3	3	4	3	3	4	3	65
Steve Elkington	4	4	4	2	5	4	3	3	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	66
Thomas Levet	4	3	3	3	5	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	3	4	66
Shigeki Maruyama	5	3	3	3	4	3	3	4	4	5	4	5	4	4	4	2	4	4	68
Gary Evans	5	3	3	3	4	3	2	3	5	3	3	4	3	4	4	3	5	5	65
Pádraig Harrington	4	4	4	3	4	4	2	3	5	4	4	4	3	4	3	3	4	5	67

Eagle or betterBirdieParBogeyDouble+

COURSE SETUP

2002 The Open Championship championship setup

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4
Yards	448	351	378	213	560	468	185	443	508	475	389	381	191	448	415	186	546	449

Setup as published for this edition. Hole routing and hazards are not sourced and never drawn.

CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY

Previous editions

Year	Champion	To par
2026	Ryan Fox	−10
2025	Scottie Scheffler	−17
2024	Xander Schauffele	−9
2023	Brian Harman	−13
2022	Cameron Smith	−20
2021	Collin Morikawa	−15
2020	—	—
2019	Shane Lowry	−15
2018	Francesco Molinari	−8
2017	Jordan Spieth	−12
2016	Henrik Stenson	−20
2015	Zach Johnson	−15
2014	Rory McIlroy	−17
2013	Phil Mickelson	−3
2012	Ernie Els	−7

Results, fields and course setups adapted from Wikipedia articles (CC BY-SA 4.0; the redistributed results dataset is available under the same licence). Identities, championship editions and venues from Wikidata (CC0). Photographs from Wikimedia Commons with per-image credit. Sources & methodology