2002 Open Championship

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Source:{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZKkaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PUUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6592%2C5580526|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|title=British Open: hole-by-hole analysis|date=18 July 2002|page=3C}}

Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950):{{cite web|url=http://www.theopen.com/~/media/The%20Open/Information/Media_Guide.ashx |publisher=The Open Championship |title=Media guide |year=2011 |pages=28, 203 |access-date=1 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 }}

;1. Top 15 and ties from the 2001 Open Championship

Billy Andrade (4), Alex Čejka, Darren Clarke (4,5,18), David Duval (2,3,4,13,14,18), Ernie Els (4,5,10,14), Niclas Fasth (4,5,18), Sergio García (4,14,18), Retief Goosen (4,5,10), Mikko Ilonen, Raphaël Jacquelin, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (5), Bernhard Langer (4,5,18), Billy Mayfair, Colin Montgomerie (4,5,6,18), Jesper Parnevik (4,18), Loren Roberts, Vijay Singh (4,11,12,14), Des Smyth, Kevin Sutherland (4), Ian Woosnam (5)

;2. Open Champions, 1992–2001

John Daly (3,4), Nick Faldo (3), Paul Lawrie (3,5), Tom Lehman (3,4,14), Justin Leonard (3,4), Greg Norman (3), Mark O'Meara (3,11), Nick Price (3,4), Tiger Woods (3,4,10,11,12,13,14,18)

;3. Past Open Champions aged 65 or under on 21 July 2002

Mark Calcavecchia (4,14,18), Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson

• Seve Ballesteros withdrew.
• Ian Baker-Finch, Tony Jacklin, Johnny Miller, Jack Nicklaus, Bill Rogers, Lee Trevino, and Tom Weiskopf did not enter.

;4. The first 50 players on the OWGR on 30 May 2002

Robert Allenby (14), Thomas Bjørn (5,18), Ángel Cabrera (5), Michael Campbell (5), Stewart Cink (18), José Cóceres, John Cook, Chris DiMarco (14), Bob Estes (14), Brad Faxon (14), Jim Furyk (14,18), Pádraig Harrington (5,18), Dudley Hart, Scott Hoch (14,18), Toshimitsu Izawa (23), Shingo Katayama (23), Jerry Kelly, Matt Kuchar, Davis Love III (12,14,18), Shigeki Maruyama, Len Mattiace, Scott McCarron, Paul McGinley (5,18), Rocco Mediate, Phil Mickelson (14,18), José María Olazábal (11), Adam Scott (5), David Toms (12,14,18), Scott Verplank (14,18,19), Mike Weir (14)

• Paul Azinger (18) and Kenny Perry did not play.

;5. Top 20 in the final 2001 European Tour Order of Merit

Mathias Grönberg, David Howell, Robert Karlsson, Thomas Levet, Peter O'Malley (22)

;6. The Volvo PGA Championship winners for 1999–2002

Anders Hansen, Andrew Oldcorn

;7. First 5 players, not exempt, in the top 20 of the 2002 European Tour Order of Merit as of 30 May

Barry Lane, Malcolm MacKenzie, Greg Owen, Carl Pettersson, Eduardo Romero

;8. First 7 European Tour members, not exempt, in the top 25 of a cumulative money list taken from all official European Tour events from the 2002 Volvo PGA Championship up to and including the 2002 Scottish Open

Roger Chapman, Bradley Dredge, Gary Evans, Darren Fichardt, Søren Hansen, Freddie Jacobson, Ian Poulter

;9. The leading 8 players, not exempt having applied (8) above, in the 2002 Scottish Open

Warren Bennett, John Bickerton, Paul Casey, Marc Farry, Ricardo González, Stephen Leaney, Jean-François Remésy, Jamie Spence

;10. The U.S. Open Champions for 1993–2002

Lee Janzen, Steve Jones, Corey Pavin

;11. The Masters Champions for 1998–2002

;12. The PGA Champions for 1997–2001

;13. The Players Champions for 1999–2002

Craig Perks, Hal Sutton (18)

;14. Top 20 in the final 2001 PGA Tour Official Money List

Joe Durant, Frank Lickliter

;15. First 5 players, not exempt, in the top 20 of the 2002 PGA Tour Official Money List as of 30 May

K. J. Choi

;16. First 7 PGA Tour members, not exempt, in the top 25 of a cumulative money list taken from the 2002 Players Championship and the five PGA Tour events leading up to and including the 2002 Western Open

Stephen Ames, Jim Carter, Jonathan Kaye, Peter Lonard, Jeff Maggert, Tim Petrovic, Chris Smith

;17. The leading 8 players, not exempt having applied (16) above, in the 2002 Western Open

Stuart Appleby, Neal Lancaster, John Riegger, Chris Riley, Steve Stricker, Bob Tway, Duffy Waldorf

• Brandt Jobe did not play.

;18. Players selected to the 2001 Ryder Cup teams

Pierre Fulke, Phillip Price, Lee Westwood

;19. The 2001 Canadian Open Champion

;20. The 2001 Japan Open Champion

Taichi Teshima

;21. Winner of the 2001 Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit

Thongchai Jaidee

;22. Top 3 from the 2001–02 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit as of 30 May

Scott Laycock, Craig Parry

;23. Top 3 from the 2001 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit

Dean Wilson

;24. Top 2 from the 2001–02 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

Tim Clark, Justin Rose

;25. The leading player, not exempt, in the 2002 Mizuno Open

Kiyoshi Miyazato

;26. First 4, not exempt having applied (25) above, in the top 20 of a cumulative money list taken from all official Japan Golf Tour events from the 2002 Japan PGA Championship up to and including the 2002 Mizuno Open

Kenichi Kuboya, Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Toru Suzuki, Toru Taniguchi

;27. The 2001 Senior British Open Champion

Ian Stanley

;28. The 2002 Amateur Champion

Alejandro Larrazábal (a)

;29. The 2001 U.S. Amateur Champion

• Bubba Dickerson forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

;30. The 2001 European Amateur Champion

• Stephen Browne forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

;Final Qualifying (Sunday 14 July and Monday 15 July)

:Dunbar – Luke Donald, Mattias Eliasson, Steve Elkington, Ian Garbutt, Patrik Sjöland, Esteban Toledo, Simon Young (a)

:Gullane No. 1 – Fredrik Andersson, Gary Emerson, Richard Green, James Kingston, Adam Mednick, Raymond Russell, John Senden

:Luffness New – Peter Baker, Benn Barham, Andrew Coltart, Paul Eales, John Kemp (a), Jarrod Moseley, Magnus Persson Atlevi

:North Berwick – Matthew Cort, Scott Henderson, Trevor Immelman, Paul Mayoh, David Park, Roger Wessels, Tom Whitehouse

Thursday, 18 July 2002

Friday, 19 July 2002

Amateurs: Young (+5), Kemp (+6), Larrazábal (+10).

Saturday, 20 July 2002

Sunday, 21 July 2002

Source:{{cite web|url=http://www.databasegolf.com/tourneys/tournament_byyear.htm?yr=2002&tid=8|work=databasegolf.com|title=2002 Open Championship results|access-date=2 July 2012}}

Final round

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Source:{{cite news |url=https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard?tournamentId=94 |publisher=ESPN|title=British Open Championship |access-date=11 August 2015}}

The four-hole aggregate playoff was contested over holes 1, 16, 17, & 18; Levet and Elkington went off in the first pair and Els and Appleby in the last. After a {{convert|50|ft|0|adj=on}} birdie putt on the second hole (#16, par 3), Levet led by a stroke, but bogeyed the last to tie Els at even-par. Appleby and Elkington also bogeyed the last hole and were eliminated by a stroke.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i2RPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5QMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5280%2C2022864 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |agency=Associated Press |title=Big, but not easy |date=22 July 2002 |page=C1}} At the first hole (#18) of sudden death, Levet put his tee shot in a fairway bunker and bogeyed. Els saved par from a greenside bunker with a five-foot (1.6 m) putt to win the title. Through 2023, this is the only four-man playoff in Open Championship history, and no other current major championship has had a four-way playoff.

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par

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• [https://www.theopen.com/previous-opens/131st-open-Muirfield-2002 Muirfield 2002 (Official site)]
• [http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2002/tournamentid=2002042/leaderboard/index.html 131st Open Championship - Muirfield (European Tour)]

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