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The Open Championship was first played on 17 October 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland.

The inaugural tournament was restricted to professionals and attracted a field of eight golfers who played three rounds of Prestwick's twelve-hole course in a single day.

Willie Park, Sr. won with a score of 174, beating the favourite Old Tom Morris, by two strokes.

The following year the tournament was opened to amateurs ; eight of them joined ten professionals in the field.