Activities Sports & Athletics 1930 British Open: Jones' Grand Slam Year Share PINTEREST Email Print Bobby Jones in 1930, the year of his final British Open victory. Hulton Archive/Getty Images Sports & Athletics Golf Golf Tournaments Basics History Gear Golf Courses Famous Golfers Baseball Basketball Bicycling Billiards Bodybuilding Bowling Boxing Car Racing Cheerleading Cricket Extreme Sports Football Gymnastics Ice Hockey Martial Arts Professional Wrestling Skateboarding Skating Paintball Soccer Swimming & Diving Table Tennis Tennis Track & Field Volleyball Other Activities Learn More By Brent Kelley Brent Kelley is an award-winning sports journalist and golf expert with over 30 years in print and online journalism. our editorial process Brent Kelley Updated November 04, 2019 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 Return to list of British Open Winners