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The first Open Championship was held over three rounds of Prestwick´s 12-hole course on 17 October 1960. A field of seven Scots and one Englishman (George Brown) took part with Scotland´s Willie Park senior beating his fellow countryman Tom Morris senior, better known a Old Tom, by 174 strokes to 176.

Young Tom Morris and Peter Thomson are two of the four golfers to win the title three years in succession. The other two are: Jamie Anderson (Scotland), 1877-79, and Bob Ferguson (Scotland), 1880-82. Morris actually won four consecutive titles because there was no Championship in 1871 after he won the title for the third consecutive year in 1870 and got to keep the trophy, a red Moroccan belt,

The last man to win back-to-back Open Championships was Pádraig Harrington (Ireland) in 2007-08.