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Friday 11 July 1952Men’s majorsYear in Review
Locke wins the Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Wednesday 9 to Friday 11 July 1952 · purse £1,700
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
16 h 27 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 58° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R119°/14°C · wind 16 km/h W, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R220°/15°C · wind 27 km/h SW, gusts 41 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R317°/14°C · wind 32 km/h WSW, gusts 45 · 1.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- 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.
Men's major
The Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Peter Thomson
To par not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1917-11-20, Germiston, South Africa; South Africa; age 34 at the win (year page); 3rd major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet