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.

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

* British Open Wheelchair Championships a wheelchair tennis tournament that is part of the ITF super series

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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.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

British common sense is proverbial.

The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

The fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have no defense against nuclear bombs.

Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.

Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

It is a British bomb.

`` It is a British Austin, the smallest they make ''.

Productivity of U.S. miners is twice that of the British.

The British coal industry is unprofitable, has large coal stocks it can't sell.

The second feature, `` The Price Of Silence '', is a British detective story that will talk your head off.

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

A woman who undergoes artificial insemination against the wishes of her husband is the unlikely heroine of `` A Question Of Adultery '', yesterday's new British import at the Apollo.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.

Despite a too long sustained declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see why British audiences apparently were impressed by `` Roots ''.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

Anthropology in Greece and Portugal is greatly influenced by British anthropology.

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

Aon has sponsored the British Touring Car Championship team run by Arena Motorsport since 2009.

At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.

He also managed to score in every British Home Championship tournament he played in except 1963 in an association with the tournament which lasted from 1958 to 1970 and included 16 goals and ten tournament victories ( five shared ).

Over the next forty years, England played exclusively with the other three Home Nations — Scotland, Wales and Ireland — in the British Home Championship.

* British Home Championship ( 8, 2 shared ): 1964 ( shared ), 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 ( shared ), 1971 and 1972

Invented by the British Mathematician and 3 times runner-up at the World Championship and 5 times British Champion Graham Brightwell, this is the tiebreaker that is now used in many tournaments including the WOC.

The Home Nations Championship, between the four British Isles teams, was the first international rugby union tournament.

England qualified for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil by winning the 1950 British Home Championship.

Winterbottom again led England to successful qualification for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland by winning the 1953 – 1954 British Home Championship.

England achieved some success under Winterbottom in the British Home Championship.

By the time of his fifth win of the year at the British GP, he had more than double the points of his closest challengers Jody Scheckter and James Hunt, and a second consecutive World Championship appeared a formality.

Cover of the 12 August 1995 issue of NME advertising the " British Heavyweight Championship " battle between Oasis and Blur

Spurred on by the media, the groups became engaged in what the NME dubbed on the cover of its 12 August issue the " British Heavyweight Championship " with the pending release of Oasis ' single " Roll With It ", and Blur's " Country House " on the same day.

Partly due to increasing antagonisms between the groups, Blur and Oasis ultimately decided to release their new singles on the same day, an event the NME called " The British Heavyweight Championship ".

Pirelli has also been awarded the contract for the control tyre supply in the British Superbike Championship from 2008 until at least 2010.

The British Touring Car Championship ( BTCC ) currently competes at nine circuits in the UK with cars built either to Next Generation Touring Car or Super 2000 specification, with ballast being used to equalise the two types.

After a relative period of decline in the 1980s a British GT Championship emerged in the mid-90s.

As of 2011, Speed broadcasts other racing series such as the British Touring Car Championship during the winter offseason.

GT3, the most popular of the GT classes, is used by the FIA GT1 World Championship, FIA GT3 European Championship, Blancpain Endurance Series, and most national series such as ADAC GT Masters or the British GT Championship.