The Open Championship returns next week to St. Andrews’ Old Course for the 30th time since golf’s oldest major championship debuted in 1860. Here is a look at the players who were crowned “champion golfer of the year” at the “home of golf” (format was 36 holes before 1892, when it expanded to 72 holes; the R&A's prize fund was paid in British pounds until 2017, when it was converted to U.S. dollars; the 2022 prize fund has been increased by 22 percent from last year, to $14 million, with $2.5 million to go to the winner, the R&A announced Friday):