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On the 1880 globe

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Friday 9 April 1880Men’s majorsYear in Review

Ferguson wins the Open

Musselburgh Links, Musselburgh, Scotland

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

13 h 30 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 42° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
  2. R2Not yet researched
  3. R3Not yet researched
  4. R4Not yet researched

The name over time

  1. The Open

1860–2026 in our record, 154 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.