Gullane, United Kingdom

Muirfield

Golf began at Muirfield in 1891, with the course extended to eighteen holes for The Open the following year. The 1892 championship was the first played over seventy-two holes.

Course: 18 holes · par 71
Original architect: Old Tom Morris

The course

Muirfield18 holes · par 71

Course design

Harry ColtRedesign · Muirfield · 1925

Old Tom MorrisOriginal design · Muirfield · 1891

Muirfield’s first Open Championships

The Honourable Company drew on the experience of its accomplished amateur members when considering improvements. Robert Maxwell contributed to that work in the years before the First World War.

Championships

Results and dates 20 editions

The Open Championship

1892
The 32nd Open
Harold Hilton
1896
The 36th Open
Harry Vardon
1901
The 41st Open
James Braid
1906
The 46th Open
James Braid
1912
The 52nd Open
Ted Ray
1929
The 64th Open
Walter Hagen
1935
The 70th Open
Alf Perry
1948
The 77th Open
Henry Cotton
1959
The 88th Open
Gary Player
1966
The 95th Open
Jack Nicklaus
1972
The 101st Open
Lee Trevino
1980
The 109th Open
Tom Watson
1987
The 116th Open
Nick Faldo
1992
The 121st Open
Nick Faldo
2002
The 131st Open
Ernie Els
2013
The 142nd Open
Phil Mickelson

The Amateur Championship

1990
Rolf Muntz
1998
Sergio Garcia
2010
Jin Jeong

The Senior Open Championship

2007
Tom Watson
July 26–29, 2007

Sources and editorial notes7 references

Sources for this story

Course History The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers
History and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Passages:Introduction Muirfield’s first Open Championships, paragraph 2

Record sources

The Open Records and Statistics The official Champion Golfers register directly enumerates this playing with ordinal, venue, and champion. Historical venue and champion spellings follow that register; any trailing parenthesized win count is occurrence metadata and is not part of the recorded winner name. The official Previous Opens decade record independently cross-checks the reviewed identity. Dates are null because the reviewed register does not state them, and no date was inferred.
The Open: championship venues The official Open venue directory, historical guide, and named Course evidence bind this continuing venue identity. Historical routing and scoring conditions are not replaced by current scorecard values. Championship venue source: www.theopen.com; Club location source: www.theopen.com. The 2026 Royal Birkdale result is separately verified by the bound final-round report.
2010 · The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 2010, PDF pages 341–344. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.
The R&A: Championships and International Matches 1984–2012, edited by Peter N. Lewis PDF page 514, printed 513, 2007 entry: The Senior Open Championship.
1998 · The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 1998, PDF pages 293–296. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.
1990 · The R&A: official Amateur championship results R&A official results book, 1990, PDF pages 261–264. Reported book dates retained in the source facts only until competitive-day boundaries are corroborated. This selected chronology is incomplete.