Which players have won The Open at Royal Troon?

The Open Championship has now been played ten times at Royal Troon.

The South Ayrshire venue first hosted the major in 1923 before spending over 25 years at other sites across the UK.

It returned in 1950 and has visited Royal Troon roughly every ten years since, with the most recent Open played here in 2024.

In that time, ten different players won the tournament on the Ayrshire links.

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Winners of The Open at Royal Troon

Englishman Arthur Havers won the inaugural Open Championship at Royal Troon. It was played in June and Havers holed a bunker shot on the 72nd hole to win his only major title, beating Walter Hagen.

The prize fund was just £200, and Havers took home £75. In 1950, when Bobby Locke won The Open at Royal Troon – his second – he walked away with four times that first-place prize.

Defending champion Locke won the second of his four Open titles, two shots ahead of runner-up Roberto De Vicenzo of Argentina.

Arnold Palmer was the next to win the tournament at Troon and started a prolonged period of American success in the major at this venue.

He became the first of six consecutive US winners in 1962, when seeing off Kel Nagle by six shots in Scotland. It was Jack Nicklaus Open Championship debut.

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Tom Weiskopf was the next Open winner at Troon in 1973 before Tom Watson won his fourth title nine years later. He had won the US Open a month earlier and beat Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price.

Mark Calcavecchia (1989), Justin Leonard (1997) and Todd Hamilton (2004) were the next three Open champions on the West coast.

Calcavecchia’s success was the first time the course had witnessed an Open play-off before Hamilton prevailed in the same manner just after the turn of the millennium.

Up next was Henrik Stenson in 2016. The Swede conquered Phil Mickelson in one of the tournament’s most famous renewals.

Finally, Xander Schauffele hoisted the Claret Jug into the sky on the west coast of Scotland in 2024 after claiming his second major title of the year.

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A list of Open winners at Royal Troon

Arthur Havers – 1923

Bobby Locke – 1950

Arnold Palmer – 1962

Tom Weiskopf – 1973

Tom Watson – 1982

Mark Calcavecchia – 1989

Justin Leonard – 1997

Todd Hamilton – 2004

Henrik Stenson – 2016