Editing The Open Championship (section)

===English hosts and winners, and the Great Triumvirate (1890–1914)===
In the 1890s, the tournament was won four times by three Englishman (two of whom were amateurs).<ref name="Open Winners">{{cite web |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/british-open-winners-1561074 |title=Golfers Who Have Won the British Open |work=ThoughtCo |publisher=ThoughtCo. |access-date=6 January 2019 |archive-date=26 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626030842/https://www.thoughtco.com/british-open-winners-1561074 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1892 the tournament was played for the first time at the newly built [[Muirfield]], which replaced [[Musselburgh Links|Musselburgh]] as the host venue used by the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.<ref name="Open - 1892">{{cite web|url=https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1892/|title=1892|publisher=The Open|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107233514/https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1892/|url-status=dead}}</ref> A few years later [[St George's Golf Club|St George's]]<ref name="Open - 1894">{{cite web|url=https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1894/|title=1894|publisher=The Open|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107233514/https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1894/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Royal Liverpool Golf Club|Royal Liverpool]]<ref name="Open - 1897">{{cite web|url=https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1897/|title=1897|publisher=The Open|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107233514/https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1897/|url-status=dead}}</ref> in England were added to the rotation. From 1892 the tournament was increased in duration to four 18-hole rounds over two days<ref name="Open - 1892"/> (Prestwick had been extended to an 18-hole course by then<ref name="Open - 1884">{{cite web|url=https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1884/Prestwick|title=1884|publisher=The Open|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107233514/https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1884/Prestwick|url-status=dead}}</ref>).

Between 1898 and 1925 the tournament either had a cut after 36 holes, or a qualifying event,<ref name="Practice Ruling2">{{cite news|title=British Golf Ruling on Tourney Practice Will Help Americans|date=16 March 1926|newspaper=The Evening Review|location=East Liverpool, Ohio|page=10}}</ref> and the largest field was 226 in 1911.<ref name="Open - 1911">{{cite web|url=https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1911/|title=1911|publisher=The Open|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107233514/https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1911/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The large field meant sometimes the tournament was spread across up to four days.<ref name="irshlds">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ls1AAAAAIBAJ&pg=6571%2C6860543|title=Golf Championship – First day's play – An Irishman leads|date=27 June 1911|newspaper=Glasgow Herald|pages=9, 10|access-date=27 September 2020|archive-date=12 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412033309/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ls1AAAAAIBAJ&pg=6571,6860543|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1907 [[Arnaud Massy]] from [[France]] became the first non-British winner.<ref name="Open - 1907">{{cite web|url=https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1907/|title=1907|publisher=The Open|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107233514/https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1907/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Royal Cinque Ports]] in England became the 6th different Open host course in 1909.<ref name="Open - 1909">{{cite web|url=https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1909/|title=1909|publisher=The Open|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107233514/https://scores.theopen.com/Heritage/PreviousOpens#!/1909/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The pre-war period is most famous for the [[Great Triumvirate (golf)|Great Triumvirate]] of [[Harry Vardon]] (Jersey), [[John Henry Taylor]] (England), and [[James Braid (golfer)|James Braid]] (Scotland). The trio combined to win The Open Championship 16 times in the 21 tournaments held between 1894 and 1914; Vardon won six times (a record that still stands today) with Braid and Taylor winning five apiece. In the five tournaments in this span the Triumvirate did not win, one or more of them finished runner-up. These rivalries enormously increased the public's interest in golf, but the [[First World War]] meant another Open was not held until 1920, and none of the trio won another Open.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/the_open_2003/history/2986433.stm |title=The Great Triumvirate and inter-war years |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=4 July 2004 |access-date=2009-08-02 |archive-date=13 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313101244/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/the_open_2003/history/2986433.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>