1982 Open Championship

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{{Infobox individual golf tournament

| name = 1982 Open Championship

| image =

| dates = 15–18 July 1982

| location = Troon, Scotland

| course = Royal Troon Golf Club

| tour = European Tour
PGA Tour

| par = 72

| yardage = {{convert|7067|yd}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MwE-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=bEkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1872%2C2673604 |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Scotland |title=The Open Championship course |agency=(map) |date=19 July 1982 |page=16}}

| field = 150 players
87 after 1st cut
60 after 2nd cut

| cut = 152 (+8) (1st cut)
226 (+10) (2nd cut){{cite web|url=http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx |publisher=The Open Championship |title=Media guide |date=2011 |pages=52, 203 |access-date=12 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 }}

| purse = £250,000
$425,000

| winners_share = £32,000
$54,400

| champion = {{flagicon|USA}} Tom Watson

| score = 284 (−4)

| previous = 1981

| next = 1983

}}

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{{Location map

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The 1982 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 111th Open Championship, held from 15 to 18 July at Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Tom Watson won his fourth Open Championship, one stroke ahead of runners-up Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price. It was Watson's second consecutive major victory—he won the U.S. Open a month earlier—and the seventh of his eight major titles.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5x9AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZVgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1237%2C1201176 |newspaper=Youngstown Vindicator |location=Ohio |agency=Associated Press |title=Watson captures 4th British title |date=19 July 1982 |page=12}}

Watson became the fifth to win the U.S. Open and the Open Championship in the same year, joining fellow Americans Bobby Jones (1926, 1930), Gene Sarazen (1932), Ben Hogan (1953), and Lee Trevino (1971).{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1982/07/26/624656/a-fourth-on-the-firth |magazine=Sports Illustrated |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |author-link=Dan Jenkins |title=A fourth on the firth |date=26 July 1982|page=14}} Tiger Woods later won both in 2000.

Watson's previous three Open wins also came in Scotland, at Carnoustie (1975), Turnberry (1977), and Muirfield (1980). His fifth victory in the Open in 1983 came at Royal Birkdale in England.