Tom Kidd was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 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. He was a caddie http://www.saint-andrews.co.uk/CC/golf.htm
from 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....

 and won the 1873 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...

 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 any Open Championship played over 36 holes. His cash prize was £11.

Kidd died of heart disease in 1884.

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Winning Score	Margin	Runner-up
1873 1873 Open Championship The 1873 Open Championship was a golf competition held at the Old Course at St Andrews. Tom Kidd 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...	(91-88=179)	1 stroke	Jamie Anderson Jamie Anderson (golfer) James "Jamie" Anderson was a nineteenth century professional golfer, who won The Open Championship three times.Anderson was born in St Andrews, Scotland. His Open Championships were at Musselburgh in 1877; Prestwick Golf Club in 1878; and St Andrews in 1879...

Results timeline

Tournament	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882
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...	1	T8	DNP	T17	DNP	DNP	5	DNP	DNP	T11

• Note: 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...
  
  was the only major played during Kidd's lifetime.

DNP = Did not play

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

External links

• Report on the 1873 Open from the tournament's official site