Starting half an hour behind Player in company with British Open Champion Kel Nagle, Palmer birdied the 2nd, the 9th, the 13th and the 16th -- four birdies, one bogey and 13 pars for a 69.

The British Open is the Open Championship men's golf tournament.

British Open may also refer to:

* Women's British Open of golf

* British Open Show Jumping Championships

* British Open Squash Championships

* British Open ( snooker ), a now defunct tournament

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Three women have won the British Open Championship: Lily Gower in 1905, Dorothy Steel in 1925, 1933, 1935 and 1936, and Hope Rotherham in 1960.

* 1860 – First The Open Championship ( referred to in North America as the British Open ).

The old structure of the grand slam was the U. S. Open, British Open, U. S. Amateur, and British Amateur.

* October 17 – The Open Championship, also known as the British Open, is played for the first time at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland.

* July 10 – Peter Thomson becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship.

In Europe, although most national championships ( British, French, German and the Spanish-based International GT Open ) run under FIA / ACO GT regulations with some modifications to ensure closer racing and lower costs, some championships are open to non-homologated GT cars.

Heather McKay of Australia dominated the game during the 1960s and 1970s, winning sixteen consecutive British Open titles between 1962 and 1977.

Jeff McWhinney have pushed the transition of the British Deaf Association from a Deaf organisation ( with the ' Wheelchair Mentality ') into a BSL organisation.

Abergavenny hosted the British National Cycling Championships in 2007 and 2009.

A large number of indoor rowing competitions are held all over the world, including the indoor rowing world championships ( also known as CRASH-B Sprints ) held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in February and the British Indoor Rowing Championships held in Birmingham, England in November ; both are rowed on Concept2s.

He added steeplechase to his program, although he had only tried the event twice before, the latest being a two-mile steeplechase victory at the 1922 British Championships.

The annual two-day British Firework Championships attracts tens of thousands of spectators.

Shot put competitions were first recorded in early 19th century Scotland, and were a part of the British Amateur Championships beginning in 1866.

Many of the compulsory dances which are still competed today were developed by British dancers in the 1930s, and 12 of the first 16 World Championships in ice dance were won by British couples.

The sport gained popularity in British, then American schools in the 19th century and culminated in the creation of the first International Cross Country Championships in 1903.

The first open tournament was the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth.

Jarvis, an AAU champion in the 100 y, was among the pre-race favourites for the 100 m at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, but the hot favourite was American Arthur Duffey, who won the British Championships just prior to the Games.

He attended the National Baseball Institute ( NBI ) in Vancouver, British Columbia for one year and played for Canada at the 1987 World Amateur Championships in Italy where he was named to the " World All-Star " team.

Spokane once again hosted the 2010 U. S. Figure Skating Championships — ending eighteen days before the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Like his father, Laurie was an oarsman at school and university ; in 1977, he was a member of the junior coxed pair that won the British national title before representing Britain's Youth Team at the 1977 Junior World Rowing Championships.

The band has also made its name by winning many of the major titles including the National Championships of Great Britain in 1978, three British Open titles and BBC Band of the Year in 1981.

In 2001 MG re-launched their motor sport campaign to cover the 24 Hours of Le Mans ( MG-Lola EX257 ), British Touring Car Championship ( BTCC ) ( MG ZS ), British and World Rally Championships and MG Independent British Rally Championship ( MG ZR ).

MG Sport + Racing raced in the British Touring Car Championships with the MG ZS between 2001 – 2003 as a factory team.

Nine's other popular recurring sporting events include the Rugby League State of Origin, British Open, US Golf Open, US Tennis Open, Wimbledon, the French Open, KFC Twenty20, Commonwealth Bank Series Cricket, and Test cricket and formerly the Australian Swimming Championships until Nine lost the rights in 2009.

However, Great Britain did not enter any competitors as the dates of the outdoor competition clashed with the 1912 Wimbledon Championships despite attempts by the British authorities to convince the Olympic organising committee to change the dates.

James " Jim " ( or " Jimmy ") Clark, Jr OBE ( 4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968 ) was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965.

Keene won the London and British Under 18 Championships in 1964, and represented England at the 1965 and 1967 World Junior Chess Championships, held in Barcelona and Jerusalem respectively.

For Forester, the tale of Herbert Curzon's almost inevitable rise to high command, the senseless slaughters he directs and his eventual retirement to the life of an aged cripple in a wheelchair, is not about Curzon — it is about the attitudes and mores of the British Army and of British society more generally, the attitudes that ( in Forester's view ) led to the appalling casualties and the horrors of the First World War.

In wheelchair tennis there are four top-ranked major tournaments called Super Series ( SS ); Australian Open ( Melbourne ), British Open ( Nottingham ), Japan Open ( Iizuka ), and US Open ( St. Louis ).

* Richard Powell ( athlete ), known as Richie, British wheelchair athlete

The removal of the pole to allow wheelchair / buggy access created the situation where the quintessentially polite British bus passenger would wait for all passengers to alight before boarding, leading to an increase in dwell times.

* Rose Hill ( athlete ) ( born 1956 ), British wheelchair athlete

In another reality, the entire British Royal family was wiped out in an explosion in the 19th century, except the Duke of Clarence, who is injured in the explosion and uses a wheelchair, and a distant American cousin, Jack Planters, who becomes King.

In 2003, aged 105, he was the only British veteran of the First World War to attend the Armistice Day Ceremony in Ypres, where he rose from his wheelchair and, in a clear and strong voice, recited Laurence Binyon's poem " For the Fallen ".