1873 Open Championship
Encyclopedia
The 1873 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews
. Tom Kidd
won the championship.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews
Old Course at St Andrews
The Old Course at St Andrews is the oldest golf course in the world. The Old Course is a public course over common land in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and is held in trust by The St Andrews Links Trust under an act of Parliament...
. Tom Kidd
Tom Kidd (golfer)
Tom Kidd was a Scottish golfer. He was a caddie from St Andrews and won the 1873 Open Championship over his home links. That was the first time the Open was played at what was to become the most famous Open Championship course. Conditions were wet and Kidd's winning score of 179 was the highest in...
won the championship.