In weekend wind and rain, Mark O'Meara won his second major championship of the year and first Open Championship in a playoff over Brian Watts, the 54-hole leader.

[2][3][4][5] Three months earlier, O'Meara won the Masters on the final green by sinking a 20-foot (6 m) birdie putt.

At age 41, he became the oldest player to win two majors in a year: Jack Nicklaus (1980), Ben Hogan (1953), and Craig Wood (1941) were all age forty.

At the previous Open at Royal Birkdale seven years earlier in 1991, O'Meara was a co-leader after 54 holes, shot 69, and tied for third.

Cumulative playoff scores, relative to par Source:[3]