1952 Open Championship
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The 1952 Open Championship was a golf
competition held at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
. The competition was won by Bobby Locke
.
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 Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, is one of the courses in the Open Championship rotation. The Women's British Open has also been played on the course four times: once prior to being designated a major championship by the LPGA Tour, and three times since.The...
. The competition was won by Bobby Locke
Bobby Locke
Arthur D'Arcy "Bobby" Locke was the first internationally successful South African professional golfer. He won four Open Championships.-Early years:...
.
Final leaderboard
| # | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bobby Locke Bobby Locke Arthur D'Arcy "Bobby" Locke was the first internationally successful South African professional golfer. He won four Open Championships.-Early years:... |
 South Africa |
69-71-74-73=287 | -1 |
| 2 | Peter Thomson | 68-73-77-70=288 | E | |
| 3 | Fred Daly Fred Daly (golfer) Frederick Daly was a Northern Irish professional golfer who was best known for winning The Open Championship of 1947 at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake.Daly was born in Portrush, County Antrim... |
67-69-77-76=289 | +1 | |
| 4 | Henry Cotton | 75-74-74-71=294 | +6 | |
| T5 | Sam King Sam King Samuel Leonard King was an English professional golfer, best known for playing on three Ryder Cup teams.... |
71-74-74-76=295 | +7 | |
| Antonio Cerdá Antonio Cerdá Antonio Cerdá is an Argentine professional golfer.Cerdá finished second in the 1951 British Open to Max Faulkner, and second in the 1953 British Open to Ben Hogan, among seven consecutive top-ten finishes in the championship. He won several national opens in Europe in the 1950s and won the first... |
73-73-76-73=295 | |||
| 7 | Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck Flory Van Donck was a Belgian professional golfer.Van Donck is widely regarded as the greatest ever Belgian golfer. During his career, he won more than fifty tournaments worldwide, including many of the most prestigious national opens of Europe... |
74-75-71-76=296 | +8 | |
| 8 | Fred Bullock | 76-72-72-77=297 | +9 | |
| T9 | Harry Bradshaw Harry Bradshaw (golfer) Harry Bradshaw was a leading Irish professional golfer of the 1940s and 1950s.Bradshaw was born in Delgany, Wicklow. He was the son of the Delgany professional golfer Ned Bradshaw and he and his three brothers Jimmy, Eddie and Hughie all became professional golfers... |
70-74-75-79=298 | +10 | |
| Syd Scott | 75-69-76-78=298 | |||
| Willie Goggin Willie Goggin Willie Goggin was an American professional golfer, who is notable for losing the 1933 PGA Championship to Gene Sarazen.-Tournament wins:this list is incomplete*1935 Northern California Open*1936 Northern California Open... |
71-74-75-78=298 | |||
| Eric Brown Eric Brown (golfer) Eric Chalmers Brown was a Scottish professional golfer.Brown was born in Bathgate and played at the local golf course. He represented Great Britain in the Ryder Cup in 1953, 1955, 1957 and 1959 and had a 4-4-0 win-loss-half record. He won all of his four singles matches but lost his four foursomes... |
71-72-78-77=298 | |||
| Norman Von Nida Norman Von Nida Norman Guy Von Nida was an Australian professional golfer.Von Nida was born in Strathfield and grew up in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur aged just 18... |
77-70-74-77=298 | |||
| Arthur Lees Arthur Lees Arthur Lees was an English professional golfer who played from the 1930s to 1960s. He was a member of four Great Britain Ryder Cup teams in the late 1940s and 1950s, and won several tournaments in Europe during his career... |
76-72-76-74=298 |