1969 Open Championship

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}

{{Infobox individual golf tournament

| name = 1969 Open Championship

| image =

| dates = 9–12 July 1969

| location = Lytham St Annes, England

| course = Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club

| tour =

| par = 71

| yardage = {{convert|6848|yd}}

| field = 130 players
73 after 1st cut
46 after 2nd cut

| cut = 151 (+9) (1st cut)
222 (+9) (2nd cut)

| purse = £30,000{{cite web|url=http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx |publisher=The Open Championship |title=Media guide |year=2011 |pages=67, 203 |access-date=9 July 2012 |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 }}
$72,000

| winners_share = £4,250
$10,200

| champion = {{flagicon|ENG}} Tony Jacklin

| score = 280 (−4)

| previous = 1968

| next = 1970

}}

{{Location map

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|label = Lytham &
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|lat = 53.7495

|long = -3.018

|caption = Location in England

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The 1969 Open Championship was the 98th Open Championship, held from 9–12 July at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England. Tony Jacklin won the first of his two major championships, two strokes ahead of Bob Charles.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1969/07/21/609869/liege-lord-of-golf|magazine=Sports Illustrated |last=Kirkpatrick |first=Curry |title=Lord liege of golf |date=21 July 1969}}

Jacklin was the first Briton to win The Open since 1951,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cjNWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p-cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6762%2C2316253 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=Associated Press|title=Jacklin first Briton since '51 to capture British Open title |date=13 July 1969 |page=4B}} and it was another sixteen years until the next, Sandy Lyle in 1985.

It was the fifth Open Championship at Lytham & St Annes, which has hosted eleven times, most recently in 2012.