The 1988 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 117th Open Championship, held from 14 to 18 July at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England. In a first-ever Monday finish, Seve Ballesteros shot a final round 65 to capture his third Open Championship and fifth major title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Nick Price, the 54-hole leader.

Scheduled to finish on Sunday, heavy rain on Saturday caused flooding of several greens and the third round was scratched after play was started. Under European Tour rules, if less than half of the players had finished their rounds, the scores for that day were discarded. Since no player had finished, all the scores from Saturday were scrapped. Sunday was briefly scheduled for 36 holes, but due to the flooding, it was decided the course could not be readied in time for the early morning tee times. The third round was played on Sunday and the fourth on Monday, the first time in history the Open's final round finished on a Monday.

Course layout

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal Yards2064374573932124905493941643,3023345421983424454633574624123,5556,857Par344435543354534444443671 Source:

Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950): 1979: 1974: 1969: 1963: 1958: 1952:

Round summaries First round Thursday, 14 July 1988 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Seve Ballesteros67−4T2 Brad Faxon69−2 Wayne GradyT4 Don Pooley70−1 Nick Price Noel Ratcliffe Peter SeniorT8 Andy Bean71E Bob Charles Howard Clark Nick Faldo David Frost Jay Haas Mark James Gary Koch David J. Russell Andrew Sherborne Bob Tway

Second round Friday, 15 July 1988 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Nick Price70-67=137−52 Seve Ballesteros67-71=138−4T3 Nick Faldo71-69=140−2 Craig Stadler72-68=1405 Andy Bean71-70=141−1T6 Fred Couples73-69=142E Sandy Lyle73-69=142 Bob Tway71-71=142T9 Isao Aoki72-71=143+1 Chip Beck72-71=143 Howard Clark71-72=143 Brad Faxon69=74=143 Gary Koch71-72=143 Don Pooley70-73=143 Wayne Riley72-71=143 Eduardo Romero72-71=143 Peter Senior70-73=143 Andrew Sherborne71-72=143

Amateurs: Broadhurst (+4), Cook (+11), Foster (+11), Härdin (+12), Nash (+12), Rymer (+18), Prosser (+21).

Third round Sunday, 17 July 1988 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Nick Price70-67-69=206−7T2 Seve Ballesteros67-71-70=208−5 Nick Faldo71-69-68=2084 Sandy Lyle73-69-67=209−4T5 Andy Bean71-70-71=212−1 Larry Nelson73-71-68=212 Don Pooley70-73-69=212 Eduardo Romero72-71-69=212T9 Fred Couples73-69-71=213 E Brad Faxon69-74-70=213 Gary Koch71-72-70=213 Peter Senior70-73-70=213

Final round Monday, 18 July 1988 Champion Silver Medal winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (£)1 Seve Ballesteros (c) 67-71-70-65=273 −11 80,0002 Nick Price 70-67-69-69=275 −9 60,0003 Nick Faldo (c) 71-69-68-71=279 −5 47,000T4 Fred Couples 73-69-71-68=281 −3 33,500 Gary Koch 71-72-70-68=2816 Peter Senior 70-73-70-69=282 −2 27,000T7 Isao Aoki 72-71-73-67=283 −121,000 David Frost 71-75-69-68=283 Sandy Lyle (c) 73-69-67-74=283 Payne Stewart 73-75-68-67=283 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (£)T11 Brad Faxon 69-74-70-71=284 E 16,500 David J. Russell 71-74-69-70=284T13 Larry Nelson 73-71-68-74=285 +1 14,000 Eduardo Romero 72-71-69-74=285 Curtis Strange 79-69-69-68=285T16 Andy Bean 71-70-71-74=286 +2 10,500 Ben Crenshaw 73-73-68-72=286 Don Pooley 70-73-69-74=286 José Rivero 75-69-70-73=286T20 Gordon Brand Jnr 72-76-68-71=287 +3 7,000 Bob Charles (c) 71-74-69-73=287 Rodger Davis 76-71-72-68=287 Tom Kite 75-71-73-68=287 Bob Tway 71-71-72-73=287T25 Jack Nicklaus (c) 75-70-75-68=288 +4 5,500 Ian Woosnam 76-71-72-69=28827 Mark O'Meara 75-69-75-70=289 +5 5,200T28 Tommy Armour III 73-72-72-73=290 +6 4,600 Chip Beck 72-71-74-73=290 Jim Benepe 75-72-70-73=290 Howard Clark 71-72-75-72=290 Mark McNulty 73-73-72-72=290 Tom Watson (c) 74-72-72-72=290T34 Wayne Riley 72-71-72-76=291 +7 4,150 Lanny Wadkins 73-71-71-76=291T36 Gordon J. Brand 73-74-72-72=292 +8 3,950 José María Olazábal 73-71-73-75=292T38 Ken Brown 75-72-75-71=293 +9 3,456 Wayne Grady 69-76-72-76=293 Jay Haas 71-76-78-68=293 Brian Marchbank 73-74-73-73=293 Graham Marsh 75-73-71-74=293 Corey Pavin 74-73-71-75=293 Ronan Rafferty 74-74-71-74=293 Noel Ratcliffe 70-77-76-70=293 David A. Russell 72-73-72-76=293T47 Paul Azinger 72-75-73-74=294 +10 3,050 Paul Kent 74-70-79-71=294 Mark McCumber 75-71-72-76=294 Andy North 77-68-74-75=294 Sam Torrance 74-74-75-71=294T52 Peter Fowler 72-72-78-73=295 +11 2,800 Hubert Green 74-73-73-75=295 Johnny Miller 75-73-72-75=295 Philip Walton 72-74-75-74=295 Fuzzy Zoeller 72-74-76-73=295T57 Paul Broadhurst (a) 73-73-74-76=296 +12 0 Carl Mason 75-69-77-75=296 2,625 Mike Smith 75-71-76-74=296T60 Gary Player (c) 72-76-73-76=297 +13 2,525 Craig Stadler 72-68-81-76=297T62 Simon Bishop 77-71-73-77=298 +14 2,400 Mark James 71-77-74-76=298 Andrew Sherborne 71-72-76-77=29865 Manuel Piñero 75-73-77-74=299 +15 2,30066 Paul Carman 77-71-80-73=301 +17 2,250T67 Greg Bruckner 72-74-80-76=302 +18 2,175 Hsieh Chin-sheng 74-73-73-82=30269 Bernhard Langer 73-75-75-80=303 +19 2,10070 Gary Stafford 76-72-78-79=305 +21 2,05071 Peter Mitchell 73-75-79-81=308 +24 2,000CUT Ian Baker-Finch 76-73=149 +7 0 David Ishii 78-71=149 Hajime Meshiai 75-74=149 Larry Mize 72-77=149 Lee Trevino (c) 75-74=149 Alberto Binaghi 74-76=150 +8 John Bland 76-74=150 Andrew Chandler 75-75=150 Joe Higgins 74-76=150 Mats Lanner 75-75=150 Andrew Magee 72-78=150 Christy O'Connor Jnr 75-75=150 Craig Parry 75-75=150 Scott Verplank 72-78=150 Roger Chapman 73-78=151 +9 Derrick Cooper 74-77=151 Jamie Howell 77-74=151 Tony Johnstone 76-75=151 Davis Love III 80-71=151 Mike Reid 78-73=151 Mark Roe 76-75=151 Gerry Taylor 76-75=151 Russell Weir 77-74=151 Magnus Persson Atlevi 79-73=152 +10 Eamonn Darcy 78-74=152 Robert Lee 75-77=152 Johan Ryström 74-78=152 Ove Sellberg 79-73=152 Richard Thompson 77-75=152 Lucien Tinkler 77-75=152 Clive Tucker 78-74=152 Teddy Webber 79-73=152 Hugh Baiocchi 79-74=153 +11 Peter Baker 76-77=153 Ron Commans 73-80=153 James Cook (a) 77-76=153 Denis Durnian 76-77=153 Raymond Floyd 76-77=153 Trevor Fostor (a) 74-79=153 Peter McWhinney 76-77=153 David Williams 77-76=153 David Armstrong 80-74=154 +12 David Gilford 78-76=154 Cristian Härdin (a) 77-77=154 John Morgan 78-76=154 Tony Nash (a) 75-79=154 Hal Sutton 76-78=154 José María Cañizares 77-78=155 +13 David Jones 78-77=155 Gordon Townhall 78-77=155 Markus Agren 79-77=156 +14 Peter Akakasiaka 77-79=156 Neil Burke 80-76=156 Mike Harwood 79-77=156 Leif Hederström 79-77=156 Lindsay Mann 81-75=156 David Thore 78-78=156 James White 77-79=156 Anders Forsbrand 79-78=157 +15 Ged Furey 80-77=157 Lu Chien-soon 78-79=157 Andy Rogers 82-75=157 Michael Allen 83-75=158 +16 Chris Moody 81-77=158 Steve Pate 80-78=158 Steen Tinning 76-82=158 Tony Jacklin (c) 80-79=159 +17 José Cabo 79-81=160 +18 Mark Calcavecchia 76-84=160 Andrew Cotton 77-83=160 David Graham 79-81=160 Roger Mackay 80-80=160 Mark Mouland 76-84=160 Charles Rymer (a) 83-77=160 Sandy Stephen 82-78=160 Alan McCloskey 83-78=161 +19 David Whelan 81-80=161 Neil Hansen 80-82=162 +20 Barry Lane 78-85=163 +21 Darren Prosser (a) 81-82=163 Robert Richardson 82-81=163WD Wayne Smith 81 +10

Source:

Scorecard Hole123456789101112131415161718Par344435543 453444444 Ballesteros−5−5−5−5−5−6−8−9−9−10−11−10−11−10−10−11−11−11 Price−7−6−6−6−6−7−9−9−9−10−10−10−11−10−10−10−10−9 Faldo−5−4−5−5−5−6−6−6−6−5−5−6−6−6−5−5−5−5

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par EagleBirdieBogeyDouble bogeyTriple bogey+

References

External links Royal Lytham & St Annes 1988 (Official site) 117th Open Championship - Royal Lytham & St Annes (European Tour)