1921 Open Championship
| Dates | 23–25 June 1921 |
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| Location | St Andrews, Scotland |
| Course(s) | Old Course at St Andrews |
| Length | 6,487 yards (5,932 m) |
| Field | 85 players |
| Cut | None |
| Prize fund | £200 |
| Winner's share | £75 |
 Jock Hutchison
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| 296, playoff | |
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The 1921 Open Championship was the 56th Open Championship, held 23–25 June at the Old Course at St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland. Former local Jock Hutchison won his only Open Championship, in a 36-hole playoff over amateur Roger Wethered. It was Hutchison's second and final major title.
Qualifying took place on 20–21 June. Entries played 18 holes on the Eden Course and 18 holes on the Old Course. The top 80 and ties qualified. The qualifying score was 161 and 85 players qualified. Jock Hutchison led the qualifiers on 146.
The entries included an unusually large number of American-based player following a funding-raising campaign by an American golf magazine. On September 27, 1920 Golf Illustrated wrote a letter to the Professional Golfers' Association of America with a suggestion that a team of 12 to 20 American professionals be chosen to play in the British Open, to be financed by popular subscription. At that time no American golfer had won the British Open. The idea was that of James D. Harnett, who worked for the magazine. The PGA of America made a positive reply and the idea was announced in the November 1920 issue. The fund was called the British Open Championship Fund. By the next spring the idea had been firmed-up. A team of 12 would be chosen, who would sail in time to play a warm-up tournament at Gleneagles (the Glasgow Herald 1000 Guinea Tournament) prior to the British Open at St Andrews, two weeks later. The team of 12 was chosen by PGA president George Sargent and PGA secretary Alec Pirie, with the assistance of USGA vice-president Robert Gardner. A team of 11 sailed from New York on the RMS Aquitania on May 24, 1921 together with James Harnett, Harry Hampton deciding at the last minute that he could not travel. The American team was: Jim Barnes, Emmet French, Clarence Hackney, Walter Hagen, Charles Hoffner, Jock Hutchison, Tom Kerrigan, George McLean, Fred McLeod, Bill Melhorn and Wilfrid Reid.
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