MEN’S MAJOR · 2005

2005 Open Championship

Status: Final
Dates: Jul 14 – Jul 17, 2005
Course: Old Course at St Andrews
Par / Yards: 72 / 7,279
Field: 156 · 80 made cut
Cut: 145 (+1)

Top finishers only 10 of 10 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	Tiger WoodsUnited States	66	67	71	70	274	−14
2	Colin MontgomerieUnited Kingdom	71	66	70	72	279	−9
T3	Fred CouplesUnited States	68	71	73	68	280	−8
T3	José María OlazábalSpain	68	70	68	74	280	−8
T5	Sergio García FernándezSpain	70	69	69	73	281	−7
T5	Vijay Singh	69	69	71	72	281	−7
T5	Retief GoosenSouth Africa	68	73	66	74	281	−7
T5	Bernhard LangerGermany	71	69	70	71	281	−7
T5	Geoff OgilvyAustralia	71	74	67	69	281	−7
T5	Michael CampbellNew Zealand	69	72	68	72	281	−7

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	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	72
Yds	376	453	397	480	568	412	390	175	352	380	174	348	465	618	456	423	455	357	7279
Tiger Woods	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	5	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	70
Colin Montgomerie	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	4	4	5	5	4	5	4	4	72
Fred Couples	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	3	3	3	3	4	4	5	4	4	4	3	68
José María Olazábal	4	4	4	3	5	5	4	3	3	4	3	5	5	5	5	4	5	3	74
Sergio García Fernández	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	6	5	4	3	4	5	3	73
Vijay Singh	3	4	4	4	5	4	5	2	4	4	3	3	5	5	5	4	5	3	72
Retief Goosen	5	5	4	4	6	4	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	74
Bernhard Langer	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	3	5	3	4	4	4	6	4	5	3	71
Geoff Ogilvy	4	5	4	5	5	5	3	3	3	4	3	3	4	5	3	4	3	3	69
Michael Campbell	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	3	4	6	4	4	4	4	72

Eagle or betterBirdieParBogeyDouble+

COURSE SETUP

2005 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	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	4	4
Yards	376	453	397	480	568	412	390	175	352	380	174	348	465	618	456	423	455	357

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