The Open Championship 1971 — leaderboard and results
1971-07-07 to 1971-07-10 · Royal Birkdale GC · Major championship
| Pos | Player | To par | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lee Trevino | -6 | 69 | 70 | 69 | 70 | |
| 2 | Lu Liang Huan | -5 | 70 | 70 | 69 | 70 | |
| 3 | Tony Jacklin | -4 | 69 | 70 | 70 | 71 | |
| 4 | Craig DeFoy | -3 | 72 | 72 | 68 | 69 | |
| T5 | Charles Coody | -1 | 74 | 71 | 70 | 68 | |
| T5 | Jack Nicklaus | -1 | 71 | 71 | 72 | 69 | |
| T7 | Billy Casper | E | 70 | 72 | 75 | 67 | |
| T7 | Gary Player | E | 71 | 70 | 72 | 71 | |
| T9 | Doug Sanders | +1 | 73 | 71 | 74 | 67 | |
| T9 | Peter Thomson | +1 | 70 | 73 | 73 | 69 | |
| T11 | Bert Yancey | +3 | 75 | 70 | 71 | 71 | |
| T11 | Dave Stockton | +3 | 74 | 74 | 68 | 71 | |
| T11 | Harry Bannerman | +3 | 73 | 71 | 72 | 71 | |
| T11 | Kel Nagle | +3 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 69 | |
| T11 | Ramon Sota | +3 | 72 | 72 | 70 | 73 | |
| T11 | Roberto De Vicenzo | +3 | 71 | 70 | 72 | 74 | |
| 17 | Dale Hayes | +4 | 71 | 72 | 70 | 75 | |
| T18 | Bob Charles | +5 | 77 | 71 | 71 | 70 | |
| T18 | Peter Oosterhuis | +5 | 76 | 71 | 66 | 76 | |
| T20 | Bernard Hunt | +6 | 74 | 73 | 73 | 70 | |
| T20 | Howie Johnson | +6 | 69 | 76 | 72 | 73 | |
| T22 | Hugh Jackson | +7 | 71 | 73 | 72 | 75 | |
| T22 | Michael Bonallack | +7 | 71 | 72 | 75 | 73 | |
| T22 | Neil Coles | +7 | 76 | 72 | 72 | 71 | |
| T25 | Bill Large | +8 | 73 | 75 | 73 | 71 | |
| T25 | Brian Huggett | +8 | 73 | 73 | 74 | 72 | |
| T25 | Douglas Sewell | +8 | 73 | 74 | 74 | 71 | |
| T25 | John Lister | +8 | 74 | 71 | 74 | 73 | |
| T25 | Malcolm Gregson | +8 | 71 | 71 | 73 | 77 | |
| T25 | Peter Butler | +8 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 73 | |
| T25 | Randall Vines | +8 | 75 | 71 | 73 | 73 | |
| T25 | Vicente Fernandez | +8 | 69 | 79 | 73 | 71 | |
| T33 | Guy Wolstenholme | +9 | 75 | 72 | 73 | 73 | |
| T33 | Hsieh Min-nan | +9 | 77 | 70 | 74 | 72 | |
| T35 | Christy O'Connor Sr | +10 | 74 | 72 | 76 | 72 | |
| T35 | John Garner | +10 | 76 | 74 | 71 | 73 | |
| T37 | Bernard Gallacher | +11 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 72 | |
| T37 | Bruce Devlin | +11 | 74 | 71 | 75 | 75 | |
| T37 | Tommy Horton | +11 | 70 | 72 | 79 | 74 | |
| T40 | Eric Brown | +12 | 75 | 72 | 72 | 77 | |
| T40 | Jimmy Kinsella | +12 | 74 | 68 | 80 | 74 | |
| T40 | John O'Leary | +12 | 70 | 75 | 75 | 76 | |
| T40 | Lionel Platts | +12 | 78 | 72 | 73 | 73 | |
| T40 | Peter Townsend | +12 | 73 | 75 | 75 | 73 | |
| T40 | Tom Weiskopf | +12 | 75 | 73 | 75 | 73 | |
| T40 | Walter Godfrey | +12 | 72 | 79 | 71 | 74 | |
| T47 | Johnny Miller | +13 | 72 | 76 | 70 | 79 | |
| T47 | Peter Alliss | +13 | 74 | 76 | 72 | 75 | |
| T49 | Bobby Locke | +14 | 75 | 73 | 74 | 76 | |
| T49 | Donald Swaelens | +14 | 75 | 73 | 72 | 78 | |
| T49 | Jack Newton | +14 | 73 | 72 | 76 | 77 | |
| T49 | Jack Wilkshire | +14 | 75 | 71 | 76 | 76 | |
| T49 | John Sharkey | +14 | 73 | 75 | 72 | 78 | |
| T49 | Steve Melnyk | +14 | 76 | 74 | 74 | 74 | |
| T49 | Tienie Britz | +14 | 73 | 78 | 73 | 74 | |
| T49 | Valentin Barrios | +14 | 72 | 74 | 77 | 75 | |
| 57 | Graham Marsh | +15 | 75 | 73 | 72 | 79 | |
| T58 | Brian Waites | +16 | 70 | 79 | 72 | 79 | |
| T58 | David Snell | +16 | 75 | 75 | 74 | 76 | |
| T60 | Maurice Bembridge | +17 | 75 | 73 | 76 | 77 | |
| T60 | Miller Barber | +17 | 71 | 74 | 77 | 79 | |
| T60 | Roger Manning | +17 | 73 | 72 | 76 | 80 | |
| 63 | David Talbot | +18 | 77 | 72 | 75 | 78 | |
| 64 | Brian Barnes | +19 | 76 | 75 | 73 | 79 | |
| CUT | Adam Gough | +15 | 75 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Alan Bird | +16 | 77 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Alan Snape | +16 | 77 | 72 | 80 | ||
| CUT | Alex Caygill | +13 | 77 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Alex King | +16 | 75 | 83 | |||
| CUT | Alfiero Pelligrini | +13 | 79 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Alistair Palmer | +12 | 74 | 77 | 74 | ||
| CUT | Angel Gallardo | +10 | 79 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Bill Evans | +12 | 79 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Bill Ferguson | +11 | 73 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Bill Hector | +13 | 77 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Bill Murray | +14 | 78 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Chris Baker | +16 | 72 | 78 | 79 | ||
| CUT | Christy Greene | +12 | 80 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Clive Clark | +12 | 75 | 76 | 74 | ||
| CUT | Cyril Pennington | +12 | 78 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Dai Rees | +13 | 76 | 75 | 75 | ||
| CUT | David Graham | +15 | 73 | 73 | 82 | ||
| CUT | David Llewellyn | +20 | 84 | 78 | |||
| CUT | David Miller | +12 | 77 | 77 | |||
| CUT | David Ridley | +12 | 74 | 76 | 75 | ||
| CUT | David Vaughan | +10 | 78 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Derek Small | +11 | 78 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Doug McClelland | +12 | 80 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Eddie Polland | +13 | 80 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Florentino Molina | +12 | 75 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Francis Rabain | +22 | 85 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Francisco Abreu | +16 | 73 | 77 | 79 | ||
| CUT | Frank Beard | +12 | 73 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Frank Connor | +10 | 74 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Frank Rennie | +12 | 77 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Gary Baleson | +17 | 81 | 78 | |||
| CUT | George Parton | +16 | 74 | 84 | |||
| CUT | George Will | +16 | 82 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Guy Hunt | +20 | 79 | 83 | |||
| CUT | Hedley Muscroft | +13 | 77 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Ian Richardson | +11 | 78 | 75 | |||
| CUT | James Thomson | +23 | 81 | 84 | |||
| CUT | Jan Dorrestein | +10 | 76 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Jean Garaialde | +19 | 83 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Jim Hiskey | +14 | 74 | 76 | 77 | ||
| CUT | Jimmy Martin | +14 | 78 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Joe Carr | +12 | 76 | 78 | |||
| CUT | John Byard | +19 | 84 | 77 | |||
| CUT | John Cook | +11 | 79 | 74 | |||
| CUT | John Fourie | +10 | 75 | 77 | |||
| CUT | John Fowler | +19 | 79 | 82 | |||
| CUT | John Frew | +22 | 81 | 83 | |||
| CUT | John Panton | +10 | 80 | 72 | |||
| CUT | John Richardson | +16 | 77 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Johnny Johnson | +16 | 83 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Jose Cabo | +14 | 73 | 83 | |||
| CUT | Jose Rodriguez | +24 | 84 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Keith Ashdown | +17 | 78 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Malcolm Gunn | +17 | 76 | 83 | |||
| CUT | Martin Foster | +13 | 77 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Maurice Moir | +16 | 80 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Max Faulkner | +15 | 77 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Michael Grantham | +20 | 80 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Norman Drew | +15 | 76 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Norman Wood | +11 | 78 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Paul Bottell | +15 | 72 | 75 | 81 | ||
| CUT | Peter Berry | +11 | 77 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Peter Green | +14 | 78 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Peter Tupling | +18 | 83 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Peter Wilcock | +13 | 74 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Ralph Moffitt | +13 | 76 | 75 | 75 | ||
| CUT | Richard Davies | +10 | 73 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Richard Kemp, Jr. | +13 | 78 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Richard Livingston | +15 | 76 | 73 | 79 | ||
| CUT | Robert Browne | +18 | 79 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Roberto Bernardini | +13 | 73 | 77 | 76 | ||
| CUT | Ronnie Shade | +19 | 78 | 72 | 82 | ||
| CUT | S.G. Birtwell | +15 | 79 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Sean Hunt | +11 | 76 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Simon Fogarty | +20 | 78 | 72 | 83 | ||
| WD | Simon Hobday | +18 | 89 | ||||
| CUT | Stephen Rolley | +18 | 85 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Stuart Brown | +18 | 75 | 76 | 80 | ||
| CUT | Tadashi Kitta | +12 | 79 | 72 | 74 | ||
| CUT | Tertius Claassens | +14 | 82 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Tomas Lopez | +13 | 77 | 73 | 76 | ||
| CUT | Vivian Law | +15 | 76 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Warren Humphreys | +10 | 72 | 80 | |||
| CUT | William Wilkinson | +14 | 81 | 75 |
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