Tiger Woods led wire-to-wire for his tenth major title, five shots ahead of runner-up Colin Montgomerie.

Other past winners at St. Andrews include John Daly, Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Nicklaus (twice), Tony Lema, Kel Nagle, Bobby Locke, Peter Thomson, Sam Snead, Dick Burton, Denny Shute, Bobby Jones, Jock Hutchison, James Braid (twice), John Henry Taylor (twice), Hugh Kirkaldy, Jack Burns, Bob Martin (twice), Jamie Anderson and Tom Kidd.

First 10 and anyone tying for 10th place in the 2004 Open Championship Ernie Els (2,3,4,13), Retief Goosen (3,4,9,13), Todd Hamilton (2,3,13), Thomas Levet (4,17), Davis Love III (3,12,13,17), Phil Mickelson (3,10,13,17), Scott Verplank (3,13), Mike Weir (3,10,13), Lee Westwood (3,4,17), Tiger Woods (2,3,9,10,11,13,17) 2.

Past Open Champions aged 65 or under on 17 July 2005 Mark Calcavecchia, Ben Curtis, John Daly (3), David Duval, Nick Faldo, Tony Jacklin, Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman (3), Justin Leonard (3), Sandy Lyle, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Mark O'Meara, Nick Price, Tom Watson 3.

The first 50 players on the OWGR for Week 22, 2005 Stephen Ames (13), Stuart Appleby (13), Thomas Bjørn, Ángel Cabrera (4,5), Chad Campbell (17), K. J. Choi, Stewart Cink (13,17), Tim Clark, Darren Clarke (4,17), Fred Couples, Chris DiMarco (13,17), Luke Donald (4,17), Fred Funk (12,17), Jim Furyk (9,17), Sergio García (4,13,17), Mark Hensby (13), Tim Herron, Charles Howell III, Miguel Ángel Jiménez (4,17), Zach Johnson (13), Jerry Kelly (13), Peter Lonard, Shigeki Maruyama, Graeme McDowell (4), Paul McGinley (17), Colin Montgomerie (17), Nick O'Hern (4), Rod Pampling, Craig Parry, Kenny Perry (17), Ian Poulter (4,17), Rory Sabbatini (13), Adam Scott (12,13), Vijay Singh (11,13,21), David Toms (11,17) 4.

First 20 in the European Tour Final Order of Merit for 2004 Paul Casey (17), Stephen Gallacher, Richard Green (19), Joakim Haeggman, Trevor Immelman, Jean-François Remésy 5.

First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt, in the top 20 of the European Tour Order of Merit for 2005 on completion of the 2005 BMW PGA Championship Stephen Dodd, Peter Hanson, Steve Webster 7.

First 3 and anyone tying for 3rd place, not exempt, in the top 20 of the Official Money List of the PGA Tour for 2005 on completion of the FedEx St. Jude Classic Joe Ogilvie, Tim Petrovic, Ted Purdy 15.

The leading player, not exempt having applied (15) above, in each of the 2005 Western Open and the 2005 John Deere Classic Sean O'Hair, Pat Perez 17.

The leading 4 players, not exempt, in the 2005 Mizuno Open Chris Campbell, David Smail, Thammanoon Sriroj, Tadahiro Takayama 25.