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Tournaments / 2013-2014

The Open Championship

2014-07-17 · Royal Liverpool

Winner
Rory McIlroy
Winning score
-17
Field
156
Field strength
+0.615 SG

The 2013-2014 The Open Championship was played at Royal Liverpool, starting 17 July 2014. Rory McIlroy won at 17 under par (271), 2 strokes ahead of Rickie Fowler. The winning card was 66, 66, 68 and 71, and the win paid $1,665,788. Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia tied for second. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.615 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 50% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.

Final leaderboard

Top 20 of 156. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 72 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Fgrade
Rank correlation
+0.009
Top-20 hit rate
40%
Top-10 avg model rank
24.8

Grade is this event’s percentile (2nd) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.

Who the model liked

Its top 10, and where they finished.

PlayerModelFinish
Jordan Spieth1st36th
Justin Rose2nd23rd
Matt Kuchar3rd54th
Jim Furyk4th4th
Henrik Stenson5th39th
Sergio Garcia6th2nd
Adam Scott7th5th
Tiger Woods8th69th
Phil Mickelson9th23rd
Rory McIlroy10th1st

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Tiger Woods8th69th(+61)
Shane Lowry65th9th(56)
David Howell70th15th(55)
Luke Donald11th64th(+53)
Matt Kuchar3rd54th(+51)
Stephen Gallacher66th15th(51)
Victor Dubuisson59th9th(50)
George Coetzee67th18th(49)
Darren Clarke72nd26th(46)
Edoardo Molinari52nd7th(45)

One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.

The venue

This event was played at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, Wirral, ENG. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the The Open Championship in 2013-2014?

Rory McIlroy won the 2013-2014 The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, finishing 17 under par.

Where was the 2013-2014 The Open Championship played?

The 2013-2014 The Open Championship was played at Royal Liverpool, starting 17 July 2014.

What was the winning score at the 2013-2014 The Open Championship?

The winning score was 17 under par (271 strokes), posted by Rory McIlroy.

How many players were in the The Open Championship field?

156 players started the 2013-2014 The Open Championship. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Where these numbers come from

Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.