page_title: 2008 Open Championship
section_title: Final round
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 Open Championship / Round summaries / Final round
caption_attribution_description: Greg Norman at the 2008 Open Championships, Royal Birkdale Golf Club. On Norman's right (viewer's left) is Camillo Villegas.
context_page_description: The 2008 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 137th Open Championship, played from 17–20 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Pádraig Harrington successfully defended his Open Championship title, his second; he shot four under par over the final nine holes and was four strokes ahead of runner-up Ian Poulter. Harrington was the last golfer to win the same major back-to-back for a decade until Brooks Koepka won consecutive U.S. Opens in 2017 and 2018.
  Television coverage was provided as usual by the BBC in the UK, and by ABC and TNT in the United States.
context_section_description: Despite a wrist injury that almost forced him to withdraw prior to the tournament, Pádraig Harrington successfully defended his Open Championship title. Harrington pulled away from the field with a tremendous back nine and became only the fifth to repeat at the Open in the last fifty years. Runner-up Ian Poulter matched Harrington's 69 and was four strokes back, while Greg Norman faltered with eight bogeys for 77 and tied for third place with Henrik Stenson.
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  Amateurs: Wood (+10), Sherreard (+14).
  (a) denotes amateur
caption: Greg Norman at the 2008 Open Championship
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