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The Open Championship winners

Order by the year each golfer first won The Open. Place all 54 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

The Open Championship winners
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How The Open Championship winners is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 54 cards you could be dealt, plus 26 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • J.H. Taylor Won five Claret Jugs
  • Harry Vardon Record six Open titles
  • Walter Hagen Flamboyant American showman
  • Gene Sarazen Inventor of the sand wedge
  • Sam Snead Sweet swing from Virginia
  • Ben Hogan Won on his only Open appearance
  • Gary Player South African career-Grand-Slam winner
  • Bob Charles First left-handed major champion
  • Jack Nicklaus The Golden Bear
  • Lee Trevino Merry Mex with a low ball flight
  • Tom Watson Won five Claret Jugs
  • Seve Ballesteros Spanish escape-artist genius
  • Sandy Lyle First Scot to win in decades
  • Nick Faldo Ice-cool Englishman with three titles
  • Ian Baker-Finch Australian who charged at Birkdale
  • Nick Price Zimbabwean world number one
  • Tom Lehman Won at Lytham
  • Mark O'Meara Won at Birkdale
  • Tiger Woods Runaway win at St Andrews
  • Ernie Els The Big Easy
  • Todd Hamilton Beat Els in a playoff
  • Stewart Cink Denied Watson in a playoff
  • Darren Clarke Popular Northern Irish veteran
  • Rory McIlroy Wire-to-wire at Hoylake
  • Henrik Stenson Duel with Mickelson at Troon
  • Francesco Molinari First Italian champion
  • Collin Morikawa Won at Royal St George's
  • Brian Harman Left-hander dominant at Hoylake

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