The Open 2024 LIVE: Golf leaderboard and result as Xander Schauffele wins Claret Jug ahead of Justin Rose
Schauffele won the Open at Troon with a stunning final round of 65 as American men swept all four majors for the first time since 1982
Xander Schauffele is The Open champion after carding a faultless final round to hold off the challenge of Justin Rose and win his second major championship of the year at Troon.
Schauffele, who won his first major title at the PGA Championship in May, shot a wonderful bogey-free round of 65, with six birdies, to take charge of a dramatic final round and lift the Claret Jug.
The American made crucial birdies at the 11th, 12th and 14th holes to move clear of a frustrated Rose, as well as Thriston Lawrence and overnight leader Billy Horschel, after the trio shared the lead heading into the back nine.
Schauffele’s victory means all four of this season’s majors have been won by Americans for the first time since 1982, with Scottie Scheffler winning the Masters and Bryson DeChambeau claiming the US Open.
Rose matched his best Open finish as the 43-year-old birdied the final hole to claim a share of second along with Horschel, while 2019 Open champion Shane Lowry finished sixth.
Follow all the reaction from the fourth and final round of The Open below:
The Open 2024 latest final round scores
Harman’s tough start has continued, with bogeys on both five and six, and he falls to +6.
Spieth has followed that brilliant birdie with back-to-back bogeys on nine and 10, so he’s at +5 now.
It certainly doesn’t look like any of the early starters are going to be challenging come the end of the day, with Max Homa the closest so far on +3 and one-under through three.
Migliozzi is three-under for the day through the front nine, but he’s still only at +3.
Third time lucky for Si Woo Kim as he aces 17th hole at Royal Troon
South Korea’s Si Woo Kim gained his revenge on Royal Troon’s 17th hole in the third round with the first ace in Open history on the par three and the longest in major history.
Kim’s two previous attempts playing the 238-yard penultimate hole had resulted in a double bogey and a bogey but he arrived on the tee having birdied the 16th, his first since the short Postage Stamp eighth, but at seven over for the tournament.
He landed his tee shot short of the green and as it rolled up it tracked all the way to hole.
“My caddie told me ‘You’d better hit hard with a three-iron’ so I did and as soon as I made good contact I see the ball over the fringe (thinking) ‘That must be maybe inside 20 feet’,” he said.
Third time lucky for Si Woo Kim as he aces 17th hole at Royal Troon
Kim’s two previous attempts playing the 238-yard penultimate hole had resulted in a double bogey and a bogey.
The Open 2024 latest final round scores
Max Homa teed off around 15 minutes ago and he ended up making par on the first, so he stays at +5.
Jordan Spieth has sunk a birdie from around 20 yards straight out of the rough, so he continues his good start and moves to +3 (and three-under for the day).
Brian Harman is one shot behind Spieth, having shot one-under through three, and Rob MacIntyre has gone one shot behind him (to +5) after draining his third birdie of the day on the seventh.
Tee times
Below are selected tee times to look forward to.
12:30 Dustin Johnson (US), Collin Morikawa (US)
12:40 Jon Rahm (Spa), Alex Noren (Swe)
13:25 Ben An (Kor), Sungjae Im (Kor)
13:35 Matthew Jordan (Eng), Justin Thomas (US)
13:45 Adam Scott (Aus), Shane Lowry (Ire)
13:55 Scottie Scheffler (US), Dan Brown (Eng)
14:05 Justin Rose (Eng), Xander Schauffele (US)
14:15 Russell Henley (US), Sam Burns (US)
14:25 Thriston Lawrence (SA), Billy Horschel (US)
What happens if the scores are tied?
At The Open, there’s a four-hole aggregate play-off involving the first, second, 17th and 18th. The player with the lowest score from those four holes wins the Claret Jug, though if there’s still a tie after that, then it goes to sudden death to produce a winner.
There hasn’t been a play-off at The Open since 2015 at St Andrews, but two of the last four held at Royal Troon have gone to extra holes .
The Open Championship prize money
The Open is the oldest golf competition in the world and the winner will collect the famous Claret Jug, first awarded in 1872. They will also receive a healthy winners’ cheque from the R&A worth $3.1m (£2.4m).
The R&A raised the total prize fund to $17m (£13.4m) in 2024, up $500,000 from last year but still the lowest of the four major championships.
Bryson DeChambeau took home $4.3m for winning the US Open, Scheffler earned $3.6m for winning the Masters, and Schauffele received $3.3m for winning the US PGA Championship.
Asked before this year’s Open whether he was concerned by The Open’s position as the least lucrative event of the big four, R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers replied: “A, I didn’t know, and B, I don’t care.
“While we will always offer a very competitive prize fund for the Open, our wider focus is on increasing participation and improving pathways in golf. We have to make choices about how we allocate resources and make the resources we have go as far as they can. Our responsibility is to ensure the game is thriving 50 years from now.”
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Bob MacIntyre admits Troon has brought him back down to earth
MacIntyre said: “A lot of people have been struggling this week. After yesterday’s (first) four holes, I thought I’d be sitting on my couch in Oban right now, not playing golf. It was a big effort last night and, coming out today, I didn’t have everything going.
“But that’s golf. Last week you were the champion and this week you’re just bottom of the pack.”
Bob MacIntyre admits Troon has brought him back down to earth
Robert MacIntyre admitted Royal Troon had brought him back down to earth as he struggled to replicate last week’s heroics.
The Oban-based left-hander celebrated long into the night after triumphing in his home Scottish Open last Sunday but it has been a different story in Ayrshire this week.
After battling to make the Open cut on Friday, the 27-year-old again found the going tough in the third round, carding a one-over-par 72 to sit on six over.
The back nine proved particularly challenging as he registered three bogeys, although he escaped with a par on the 18th after being forced to innovate and play a shot right-handed.
Horschel dreaming of Open win
“Envisioning myself holding that trophy on 18, walking out to the crowd and being congratulated as Open champion.
“That’s what I’m going to do again tonight and hopefully that comes true tomorrow.
“If it doesn’t, then I’ll get back on the grind and work harder to get back in a position like this again.”
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