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Open Championship
1877: Musselburgh
| Player | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamie Anderson | 160 |
| 2 | Bob Pringle | 162 |
| 3 | William Cosgrove | 164 |
| Bob Ferguson | 164 | |
| 5 | William Brown | 166 |
| Davie Strath | 166 | |
| 7 | Mungo Park | 167 |
The descriptions of the Opens of this period are short because the press clearly did not think it an event worth reporting in any detail. The Manchester Courier, one of the best papers for golf coverage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, placed its brief summary beside an account of a walking competition (who could walk the furthest), the latter being almost double the size of the report on the Open.
The journalists were typically too lazy to count the number of competitors and so reports note only that ‘the muster was …. a fairly numerous one’. Although, according to the Fife Herald, ‘it cannot be said that the practice overhead was of that high merit that was looked for’, ‘one round brilliant’ and three steady ones (these were nine hole rounds) was enough for Jamie Anderson to secure the first of three successive championships.
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