British Open Championship Results & Highlights

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No Tiger Woods on the weekend so the Open Championship truly was up for grabs heading into Sunday.

Tom Watson, the ultimate underdog, squandered a chance to become golf’s oldest major champion. The 59-year-old missed an 8-foot putt on the 72nd hole of the British Open, then lost a four-hole playoff to Stewart Cink.

Cink won his first major title, capping it with a birdie at No. 18, winning the playoff by six shots.

Cink and Watson finished at 2-under 278, the highest winning score in the four Opens held at Turnberry.

Three other players had at least a share of the lead in a final round where fortunes shifted with the sea breeze off the Firth of Clyde.

Lee Westwood had a one-shot lead with four holes to play until making back-to-back bogeys.

Chris Wood tied for third with Westwood, finishing nearly two hours before Watson missed the decisive putt.

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