1930 British Open Golf Tournament: Grand Slam Year

Bobby Jones won the "Grand Slam" in 1930, and his victory in the 1930 British Open was the second of his four Grand Slam wins. It followed by a week Jones' win at the British Amateur.

By winning here, Jones became only the second golfer to win both the British Amateur and British Open in the same year. John Ball was the first to accomplish the feat in 1890.

Jones was in or near the lead throughout, his first-round 70 tying him atop the leaderboard. Jones moved one clear after the second round, but Englishman Archie Compston's third-round 68 moved Compston one stroke in front of Jones.

In the fourth round, however, Compston fell apart, carding an 82. Jones wasn't at his best, either, with a 75, but a brilliant greenside bunker shot on the 16th hole to within inches of the cup saved Jones' round.

Jones got into the clubhouse at 291, with Leo Diegel and Macdonald Smith still on the course having chances to catch him. Neither did; instead, Diegel and Smith tied for second, two strokes behind Jones.

This was the last time an amateur won the Open Championship.

Jones left Britain with half of the Grand Slam in his bag; he went on to win the 1930 U.S. Open (where Macdonald Smith was again runner-up) and U.S. Amateur to complete the feat. At age 28, he retired from competitive golf following the 1930 season.

One exit of note this year: 1907 British Open champion Arnaud Massy missed the cut in his final appearance in an Open Championship.

1930 British Open Golf Tournament Scores

Results from the 1930 British Open golf tournament played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England (a-amateur):

a-Bobby Jones	70-72-74-75--291
Leo Diegel	74-73-71-75--293
Macdonald Smith	70-77-75-71--293
Fred Robson	71-72-78-75--296
Horton Smith	72-73-78-73--296
Jim Barnes	71-77-72-77--297
Archie Compston	74-73-68-82--297
Henry Cotton	70-79-77-73--299
Thomas Barber	75-76-72-77--300
Auguste Boyer	73-77-70-80--300
Charles Whitcombe	74-75-72-79--300
Bert Hodson	74-77-76-74--301
Abe Mitchell	75-78-77-72--302
Reg Whitcombe	78-72-73-79--302
a-Donald Moe	74-73-76-80--303
Philip Rodgers	74-73-76-80--303
Percy Alliss	75-74-77-79--305
William Large	78-74-77-76--305
Ernest Whitcombe	80-72-76-77--305
Arthur Young	75-78-78-74--305
Harry Crapper	78-73-80-75--306
Pierre Hirigoyen	75-79-76-76--306
Harry Large	79-74-78-75--306
Stewart Burns	77-75-80-75--307
William H. Davies	78-77-73-79--307
Arthur Lacey	78-79-74-76--307
Ted Ray	78-75-76-78--307
Norman Sutton	72-80-76-79--307
Tom Green	73-79-78-78--308
Duncan McCulloch	78-78-79-74--309
Alf Perry	78-74-75-82--309
Marcel Dallemagne	79-72-79-80--310
Len Holland	75-78-80-77--310
Albert Isherwood	75-77-78-80--310
Percy Weston	81-77-76-76--310
a-Lister Hartley	79-78-79-75--311
Edward Jarman	76-76-79-80--311
William Nolan	78-79-74-80--311
James Bradbeer	77-77-76-82--312
William Branch	81-77-78-76--312
Alf Padgham	78-80-74-80--312
Owen Sanderson	83-74-77-78--312
J.J. Taylor	76-78-82-76--312
George Gadd	78-78-73-84--313
D.C. Jones	75-77-82-79--313
Charles McIlvenny	76-75-79-83--313
William Twine	78-78-78-79--313
Ernest Kenyon	79-76-79-80--314
William McMinn	82-75-77-80--314
Bob Bradbeer	81-74-80-81--316
Sydney Fairweather	77-78-79-82--316
H. Rimmer	79-79-79-80--317
a-William Sutton	78-76-81-82--317
a-Cyril Tolley	84-71-80-82--317
a-Harry Bentley	76-78-86-78--318
Harry Kidd	79-75-85-80--319
C.W. Thomson	81-74-81-83--319
William Gimber	76-78-81-85--320
a-Raymond Oppenheimer	79-78-82-82--321
a-Donald Soulby	75-82-82-83--322