1932 Open Championship

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{{Infobox individual golf tournament

| name = 1932 Open Championship

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| dates = 8–10 June 1932

| location = Sandwich, England

| course = Prince's Golf Club

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| par = 72{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Lvc9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=H0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5170%2C1208956 |work=Glasgow Herald |title=British golfers lead |date=8 June 1932 |page=11}}

| yardage = {{convert|6860|yd|0}}

| field = 110 players, 64 after cut{{cite web|url=http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx |publisher=The Open Championship |title=Media guide |date=2011 |page=103 |access-date=26 May 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418224641/http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx |archive-date=18 April 2012 }}

| cut = 154 (+10)

| purse = £500

| winners_share = £100

| champion = {{flagicon|USA|1912}} Gene Sarazen

| score = 283 (−5)

| previous = 1931

| next = 1933

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The 1932 Open Championship was the 67th Open Championship, held 8–10 June at Prince's Golf Club in Sandwich, England. Gene Sarazen won his only Open title, five strokes ahead of runner-up Macdonald Smith.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Mfc9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=H0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2434%2C1762625 |work=Glasgow Herald |title=Sarazen's great victory |date=11 June 1932 |page=11}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QQENAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yGkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4296%2C6123862 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |agency=Universal Service |title=Sarazen wins British Open golf title |date=11 June 1932 |page=15 |access-date=16 May 2013}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r88_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=MA4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6636%2C1571038 |newspaper=Milwaukee Sentinel |agency=Associated Press |title=Sarazen wins British Open on new mark |date=11 June 1932 |page=19 |access-date=16 May 2013}} Sarazen led wire-to-wire to secure the fifth of his seven major championships.

Qualifying took place on 6–7 June, Monday and Tuesday, with 18 holes at Prince's and 18 holes at Royal St George's, and the top 100 and ties qualified.{{cite news |newspaper = The Times |date=17 May 1932 |page=6 |title=Open Championship – Qualifying rounds at Sandwich}} Bob Bradbeer led the qualifiers on 141; the qualifying score was 157 and 110 players advanced.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Lvc9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=H0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5740%2C1137194 |work=Glasgow Herald |title=Qualifiers for Open |date=8 June 1932 |page=4}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S5JRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hmkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3181%2C85885 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |agency=Associated Press |title=Six Americans qualify in British Open |date=8 June 1932 |page=15 }}{{cite news |newspaper = The Times |date=8 June 1932 |page=6 |title=Golf – Open Championship – A day of low scoring}}

Sarazen opened with a 70 on Wednesday to take the lead, one stroke ahead of four others.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L_c9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=H0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2409%2C1387653 |work=Glasgow Herald |title=America's golf challenge |date=9 June 1932 |page=9}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PwENAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yGkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5282%2C6587512 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |agency=Associated Press |title=Sarazen takes British Open lead with 70|date=9 June 1932 |page=16}} He followed with a 69 for 139 (−5) for a three-stroke lead over Percy Alliss after 36 holes.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MPc9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=H0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5220%2C1565978 |work=Glasgow Herald |title=Great golf at Sandwich |date=10 June 1932|page=11}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QAENAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yGkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4887%2C6342059|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |agency=Associated Press |title=Sarazen increases British Open lead with 70|date=10 June 1932 |page=17}} The top sixty and ties would make the 36-hole cut; it was at 154 (+10) and 64 players advanced.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MPc9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=H0kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5179%2C1628391

|work=Glasgow Herald |title=Open golf scores |date=10 June 1932|page=18}}

With a 70 in the third round on Friday morning, Sarazen increased his lead to four over Arthur Havers, who shot a course-record {{nowrap|68 (−4).}} A 74 in the final round that afternoon saw Sarazen post an Open record 283 total. Havers, playing well behind Sarazen, needed a 69 to win, but made the turn in 37 and could not close the gap. He could only manage a 76 for 289 and fell to third; Smith shot 71-70 to climb into solo second place at even-par 288.

Two weeks later in New York, Sarazen won the U.S. Open and joined Bobby Jones (1926, 1930) as the only two to win both the British Open and U.S. Open in the same year. Subsequent winners of both were Ben Hogan (1953), Lee Trevino (1971), Tom Watson (1982), and Tiger Woods (2000).

This was the only Open Championship held at Prince's, just north of Royal St George's, which has since been the only venue in southeastern England to host.