The 1999 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 128th Open Championship, held from 15 to 18 July at the Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, Scotland. Paul Lawrie won his only major championship in a playoff over Jean van de Velde and Justin Leonard. Lawrie, down by ten strokes at the start of the fourth round, completed the biggest final round comeback in major championship history, headlined by van de Velde's triple-bogey at the last hole. Course layout Carnoustie Golf Links - Championship Course ^ The 6th hole was renamed Hogan's Alley in 2003 Lengths of the course for previous Opens (since 1950): 1975: , par 72 1968: , par 72 1953: , par 72 1937: , par 72 1931: , par 72 Past champions in the field Made the cut Missed the cut Round summaries First round Thursday, 15 July 1999 Second round Friday, 16 July 1999 Amateurs: Donald (+14), Gribben (+18), Storm (+19), Scotland (+21). Third round Saturday, 17 July 1999 Final round Sunday, 18 July 1999 Paul Lawrie completed the biggest final round comeback in major championship and PGA Tour history by coming back from 10 strokes behind in the final round, and winning the subsequent three-man playoff. Jean van de Velde started the day with a five-stroke lead over Craig Parry and Justin Leonard, but trailed Parry by a stroke at the 12th hole, as Parry was −3 for the day through 11, while Van de Velde was +3. However, Parry could not escape the thick rough on the 12th hole on his way to a triple bogey while Van de Velde regained sole possession of the lead with a bogey. Parry then bogeyed 13, drove into the fairway bunker at 14 to deny himself a birdie chance, and missed a two-foot (0.6 m) putt on 17 en route to a double bogey. He holed a bunker shot on 18 to finish one stroke out of the playoff. In the meantime, Leonard tied van de Velde for the lead with a birdie on 14, but made bogeys at 15 and 18 as his second shot landed in the barry burn as Van de Velde birdied 14 - leaving him three strokes behind, tied with Lawrie in the clubhouse at 6-over-par. Ángel Cabrera had a chance to join the clubhouse lead but narrowly missed a birdie putt on 18. After the birdie on 14,