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Originally Posted by yippedagain
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Don't think Nicklaus and Player should be on the list either.
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Correction made. Thanks,
yippedagain.
Doing my homework in arrears, I've now scoured the list of past British Open champions -- back to the days of
Young Tom (Morris, not Watson) -- and found one more U.S.-British Open same-year Open Champion --
Gene Sarazen. So that would leave the five in my edited post (
Jones, Sarazen, Hogan, Trevino, Watson and Woods).
Can anybody else find another same-year dual winner?
To save you a little trouble, five-time British Open winners
Vardon and
Thomson didn't make the grade, nor did four-time winners
Hagen and
Locke.
Palmer won his British Opens in 1961 and 1962, but got his lone U.S. Open in 1960. And four-time U.S. Open winner
Willie Anderson never won the British (it was quite a boat ride in the early 1900s -- expensive, too).