2015 Open Championship
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| Dates | 16–20 July 2015 |
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| Location | St Andrews, Scotland |
| Course(s) | Old Course |
| Organized by | The R&A |
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| Par | 72 |
| Length | 7,297 yd (6,672 m) |
| Field | 156 players, 80 after cut |
| Cut | 144 (E) |
| Prize fund |
£6,300,000 €8,717,310 $9,831,780 |
| Winner's share | £1,150,000 €1,591,255 $1,794,690 |
 Zach Johnson
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| 273 (−15) PO | |
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The 2015 Open Championship was the 144th Open Championship, held 16–20 July 2015 at Old Course at St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. It was the 29th Open Championship played at St Andrews. Zach Johnson won the Championship in a 4-hole playoff.
World number one Rory McIlroy withdrew prior to the tournament due to an off-course ankle injury, the first defending champion absent from the Open since 1954, when Ben Hogan opted not to participate. Jordan Spieth entered with a chance to win his third consecutive major and take over the top ranking. Spieth finished tied for fourth, one stroke out of the playoff.
The tournament was originally scheduled to be finished on Sunday, 19 July: however, bad weather – which included heavy rain and very strong winds – forced play to be suspended twice, both on Friday and Saturday, with the latter having play suspended for nearly most of the playing day. As a result, this was the first Open Championship to finish on a Monday since 1988.
The 2015 event is the 29th Open Championship played at the Old Course at St Andrews. The most recent was in 2010 when Louis Oosthuizen won his only major title and became the first South African to win an Open Championship at St Andrews.
Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):
Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.
Mark Calcavecchia (3), Stewart Cink (2,3), Darren Clarke (2,3), Ben Curtis, John Daly, David Duval, Ernie Els (2,3), Nick Faldo, Todd Hamilton, Pádraig Harrington (2), Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard (3), Sandy Lyle, Phil Mickelson (2,3,5,15), Mark O'Meara, Louis Oosthuizen (2,3,5,6), Tiger Woods (2,3,12)
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