Jack Burns, a native of St Andrews

St Andrews

St Andrews is a university town and former royal burgh on the east coast of Fife in Scotland. The town is named after Saint Andrew the Apostle.St Andrews has a population of 16,680, making this the fifth largest settlement in Fife....

, was a Scottish

Scotland

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 professional golf

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....

er.

While employed as golf professional and greenkeeper at Warwick

Warwick

Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town lies upon the River Avon, south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is conjoined. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 23,350...

 Golf Club in England

England

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, Burns won the 1888 Open Championship

The Open Championship

The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...

, which was held at the St Andrews Links

St Andrews Links

St Andrews Links in the town of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, is regarded as the "home of golf". It is one of the oldest courses in the world, where the game has been played since the 15th century...

 that year. In those days a major championship

Men's major golf championships

The men's major golf championships, commonly known as the Major Championships, and often referred to simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in professional golf...

 title did not make a man's fortune, and Burns later moved back to St Andrews to work on the railways.

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Winning Score	Margin	Runners-up
1888 1888 Open Championship The 1888 Open Championship was a golf competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews. Jack Burns won the championship....	The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	(86-85=171)	1 stroke	David Anderson, Jr.,   Ben Sayers Ben Sayers Bernard "Ben" Sayers was one of the most successful early professional golfers...

Results timeline

Tournament	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	T23	DNP	DNP	7	DNP	DNP	1	14

Tournament	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	45	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT

• Note: Burns only played in The Open Championship
  The Open Championship
  The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...
  
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DNP = Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

External links

• Details of the 1888 Open from the official site