The Open Championship 1998 — leaderboard and results
1998-07-15 to 1998-07-19 · Royal Birkdale GC · Major championship · Purse $2,824,876
| Pos | Player | To par | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark O'Meara | E | 72 | 68 | 72 | 68 | |
| 2 | Brian Watts | E | 68 | 69 | 73 | 70 | |
| 3 | Tiger Woods | +1 | 65 | 73 | 77 | 66 | |
| T4 | Jesper Parnevik | +2 | 68 | 72 | 72 | 70 | |
| T4 | Jim Furyk | +2 | 70 | 70 | 72 | 70 | |
| T4 | Justin Rose | +2 | 72 | 66 | 75 | 69 | |
| T4 | Raymond Russell | +2 | 68 | 73 | 75 | 66 | |
| 8 | Davis Love III | +5 | 67 | 73 | 77 | 68 | |
| T9 | Costantino Rocca | +6 | 72 | 74 | 70 | 70 | |
| T9 | Thomas Bjørn | +6 | 68 | 71 | 76 | 71 | |
| T11 | Brad Faxon | +7 | 67 | 74 | 74 | 72 | |
| T11 | David Duval | +7 | 70 | 71 | 75 | 71 | |
| T11 | John Huston | +7 | 65 | 77 | 73 | 72 | |
| 14 | Gordon Brand Jr | +8 | 71 | 70 | 76 | 71 | |
| T15 | Des Smyth | +9 | 74 | 69 | 75 | 71 | |
| T15 | Greg Turner | +9 | 68 | 75 | 75 | 71 | |
| T15 | Jose Maria Olazabal | +9 | 73 | 72 | 75 | 69 | |
| T15 | Peter Baker | +9 | 69 | 72 | 77 | 71 | |
| T19 | Curtis Strange | +10 | 73 | 73 | 74 | 70 | |
| T19 | Mark James | +10 | 71 | 74 | 74 | 71 | |
| T19 | Robert Allenby | +10 | 67 | 76 | 78 | 69 | |
| T19 | Sandy Lyle | +10 | 71 | 72 | 75 | 72 | |
| T19 | Vijay Singh | +10 | 67 | 74 | 78 | 71 | |
| T24 | Bob Estes | +11 | 72 | 70 | 76 | 73 | |
| T24 | Lee Janzen | +11 | 72 | 69 | 80 | 70 | |
| T24 | Peter O'malley | +11 | 71 | 71 | 78 | 71 | |
| T24 | Sam Torrance | +11 | 69 | 77 | 75 | 70 | |
| T24 | Stephen Ames | +11 | 68 | 72 | 79 | 72 | |
| T29 | Ernie Els | +12 | 72 | 74 | 74 | 72 | |
| T29 | Loren Roberts | +12 | 66 | 76 | 76 | 74 | |
| T29 | Nick Price | +12 | 66 | 72 | 82 | 72 | |
| T29 | Scott Dunlap | +12 | 72 | 69 | 80 | 71 | |
| T29 | Sergio Garcia | +12 | 69 | 75 | 76 | 72 | |
| T29 | Shigeki Maruyama | +12 | 70 | 73 | 75 | 74 | |
| T35 | Mark Calcavecchia | +13 | 69 | 77 | 73 | 74 | |
| T35 | Santiago Luna | +13 | 70 | 72 | 80 | 71 | |
| T35 | Sven Struver | +13 | 75 | 70 | 80 | 68 | |
| T38 | Joakim Haeggman | +14 | 71 | 74 | 78 | 71 | |
| T38 | Naomichi Ozaki | +14 | 72 | 73 | 76 | 73 | |
| T38 | Patrik Sjoland | +14 | 72 | 72 | 77 | 73 | |
| T38 | Philip Walton | +14 | 68 | 76 | 74 | 76 | |
| T38 | Steen Tinning | +14 | 69 | 76 | 77 | 72 | |
| T38 | Tom Kite | +14 | 72 | 69 | 79 | 74 | |
| T44 | Andrew Coltart | +15 | 68 | 77 | 75 | 75 | |
| T44 | David Carter | +15 | 71 | 75 | 76 | 73 | |
| T44 | David Frost | +15 | 72 | 73 | 78 | 72 | |
| T44 | David Howell | +15 | 68 | 77 | 79 | 71 | |
| T44 | Katsuyoshi Tomori | +15 | 75 | 71 | 70 | 79 | |
| T44 | Payne Stewart | +15 | 71 | 71 | 78 | 75 | |
| T44 | Rodger Davis | +15 | 76 | 70 | 78 | 71 | |
| T52 | Billy Mayfair | +16 | 72 | 73 | 77 | 74 | |
| T52 | Brandt Jobe | +16 | 70 | 73 | 82 | 71 | |
| T52 | Frankie Minoza | +16 | 69 | 75 | 76 | 76 | |
| T52 | Larry Mize | +16 | 70 | 75 | 79 | 72 | |
| T52 | Steve Stricker | +16 | 70 | 72 | 80 | 74 | |
| T57 | Eduardo Romero | +17 | 71 | 70 | 79 | 77 | |
| T57 | Greg Chalmers | +17 | 71 | 75 | 77 | 74 | |
| T57 | Ian Woosnam | +17 | 72 | 74 | 76 | 75 | |
| T57 | Ignacio Garrido | +17 | 71 | 74 | 80 | 72 | |
| T57 | Justin Leonard | +17 | 73 | 73 | 82 | 69 | |
| T57 | Steve Jones | +17 | 73 | 72 | 79 | 73 | |
| T57 | Trevor Dodds | +17 | 73 | 71 | 81 | 72 | |
| T64 | Carlos Franco | +18 | 71 | 73 | 76 | 78 | |
| T64 | Lee Westwood | +18 | 71 | 71 | 78 | 78 | |
| T66 | Didier De Vooght | +19 | 70 | 76 | 80 | 73 | |
| T66 | Fred Couples | +19 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 81 | |
| T66 | Mark Brooks | +19 | 71 | 73 | 75 | 80 | |
| T66 | Michael Campbell | +19 | 73 | 73 | 80 | 73 | |
| T66 | Michael Long | +19 | 70 | 74 | 78 | 77 | |
| T66 | Stewart Cink | +19 | 71 | 73 | 83 | 72 | |
| 72 | Andrew Clapp | +20 | 72 | 74 | 81 | 73 | |
| 73 | Gary Evans | +21 | 69 | 74 | 84 | 74 | |
| 74 | Bob May | +23 | 70 | 73 | 85 | 75 | |
| 75 | Andrew McLardy | +24 | 72 | 74 | 80 | 78 | |
| 76 | Freddie Jacobson | +25 | 67 | 78 | 81 | 79 | |
| 77 | Kazuhiko Hosokawa | +26 | 72 | 73 | 81 | 80 | |
| 78 | Robert Giles | +27 | 72 | 74 | 83 | 78 | |
| 79 | Phil Mickelson | +28 | 71 | 74 | 85 | 78 | |
| 80 | Andy Oldcorn | +29 | 75 | 71 | 84 | 79 | |
| 81 | Dudley Hart | +30 | 73 | 72 | 85 | 80 | |
| CUT | Andrew Magee | +13 | 75 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Barry Lane | +7 | 72 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Ben Crenshaw | +14 | 76 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Bernhard Langer | +9 | 74 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Bob Tway | +7 | 68 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Bradley Dredge | +16 | 78 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Brian Davis | +7 | 72 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Carl Suneson | +7 | 77 | 70 | |||
| CUT | Colin Montgomerie | +7 | 73 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Corey Pavin | +10 | 74 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Craig Parry | +7 | 73 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Daren Lee | +14 | 76 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Darren Clarke | +8 | 73 | 75 | |||
| CUT | David Shacklady | +10 | 76 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Derrick Cooper | +9 | 72 | 77 | |||
| WD | Francis Howley | +8 | 78 | ||||
| CUT | Frank Nobilo | +13 | 76 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Fredrik Henge | +11 | 75 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Gary Brown | +9 | 74 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Gary Orr | +16 | 78 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Gary Player | +11 | 77 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Glen Day | +8 | 75 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Graham Spring | +14 | 74 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Grant Dodd | +9 | 70 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Greig Hutcheon | +16 | 73 | 83 | |||
| CUT | Howard Clark | +12 | 73 | 79 | |||
| CUT | J.P. Hayes | +9 | 70 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Jean Louis Guepy | +10 | 74 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Jeff Maggert | +7 | 73 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Jeff Remesy | +19 | 77 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Joe Durant | +8 | 74 | 74 | |||
| CUT | John Daly | +11 | 73 | 78 | |||
| CUT | John Lovett | +10 | 72 | 78 | |||
| CUT | K.J. Choi | +10 | 70 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Keiichiro Fukabori | +7 | 70 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Lee Jones | +10 | 77 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Mark Litton | +15 | 75 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Mark McNulty | +11 | 73 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Mats Hallberg | +14 | 77 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Matt Kuchar | +10 | 75 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Matthew McGuire | +11 | 74 | 77 | |||
| DQ | Miguel Ángel Jiménez | +3 | 73 | ||||
| CUT | Padraig Harrington | +9 | 73 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Paul Azinger | +9 | 76 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Paul Lawrie | +9 | 73 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Paul McGinley | +7 | 72 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Per-Ulrik Johansson | +10 | 74 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Peter Hedblom | +18 | 76 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Peter Mitchell | +8 | 76 | 72 | |||
| CUT | Peter Senior | +8 | 71 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Phillip Price | +7 | 72 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Retief Goosen | +10 | 74 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Richard Bland | +9 | 71 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Robert Karlsson | +14 | 72 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Ross Drummond | +12 | 74 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Russell Claydon | +13 | 74 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Scott Henderson | +17 | 77 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Scott Hoch | +10 | 73 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Seve Ballesteros | +8 | 73 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Simon McCarthy | +8 | 73 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Skip Kendall | +11 | 74 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Stephen Allan | +12 | 72 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Stephen Leaney | +11 | 75 | 76 | |||
| WD | Steve Elkington | +5 | 75 | ||||
| CUT | Steven Alker | +14 | 73 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Steven Armstrong | +14 | 76 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Steven Young | +12 | 74 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Stuart Appleby | +16 | 76 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Thomas Levet | +7 | 72 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Tom Lehman | +10 | 71 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Tom Watson | +9 | 73 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Tony Johnstone | +7 | 73 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Toru Suzuki | +15 | 78 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Toru Taniguchi | +8 | 71 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Yoshinori Mizumaki | +8 | 71 | 77 |
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