The 2017 Open: In Numbers

Jordan Spieth is the youngest American ever to win golf’s oldest trophy. 

He did so playing the final five holes in five-under-par – the lowest ever by an Open champion – to become only the second player after Jack Nicklaus to win three different Majors at the age of 23.

Oh, and he was also crowned the youngest winner since Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros in 1979. But don’t wait too long to let all that sink in.

He’s now got the chance to become the youngest man ever to complete the career grand slam when he heads to the US PGA Championship in three weeks time.

Relive some of the best shots from The Open below…

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But Spieth wasn’t the only man to make history during a week of high drama at Royal Birkdale. Here, we take a statistical look at some of the best and worst feats achieved by some of the world’s best golfers.

268 Spieth’s winning score (65, 69, 65, 69), eclipsing the previous best total at Royal Birkdale by four shots.

FIVE Open champions have now shot all four rounds in the 60s en route to victory.

442 Number of Majors it took for someone to shoot 62. Bravo Branden Grace – even if you didn’t know about the record you were breaking.

235,000 Spectators attended the Championship, making it the largest-ever crowd outside of St Andrews.

THREE consecutive leading amateurs of an Open at Royal Birkdale have been English and donned a horticultural-based last name. Alfie Plant joins Chris Wood (’08) and Justin Rose (’98) as the past three Silver Medal winners in Southport.

29 Minutes it took for the Spieth ruling on the 13th hole. He was an incredible 100 yards away from finding the fairway with his wild tee shot.

40 Difference in yardage Spieth and Greller had when trying to calculate how far it was from the practice range to the green on 13. Thankfully, they went with Greller’s 230 yards, rather than Spieth’s 270.

19 Birdies recorded by Matt Kuchar, two ahead of the next best Spieth and Bubba Watson.

28 Average number of putts Spieth made per round, 1.25 more than Rory McIlroy.

32 Times a round of 63 has been shot at a Major championship. Haotong Li joined that club on Sunday, becoming just the fifth man to do so in the final-round of The Open.

SEVEN Over par – the combined final-round score of Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson after nine holes on Sunday.

342 Average driving distance in yards by Chan Kim on Sunday, 11 yards further than Jason Day managed.

SIX Ranked as the hardest hole on the course overall, averaging 0.427 strokes over par and yielding 173 bogeys and just 26 birdies.

27 Times DJ got up and down to save par. 

53 Greens in regulation hit by Russell Henley across all four rounds.

15 The easiest hole on the course, yielding 10 eagles and 192 birdies over all four days.

NINE the eventful quintuple bogey Justin Thomas had during Friday’s round was the highest score of the week on one hole.

37 of 56 fairways hit by Soren Kjeldsen, the most all week. Sergio Garcia hit just 26.8%.

31 Open championships played in by Mark O’Meara, who signed off with a level-par 70 on Friday at the place where he won the Claret Jug in 1998. 

TEN Open’s have now been played at Royal Birkdale. Jordan Spieth joins Padraig Harrington (’08), Mark O’Meara (’98), Ian Baker-Finch (’91), Tom Watson (’83), Johnny Miller (’76), Lee Trevino (’71), Peter Thompson (’65, ’54) and Arnold Palmer (’61) as an Open champion at the Southport links.