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Saturday 14 July 1973Men’s majorsYear in Review
Weiskopf wins the Open
Royal Troon Golf Club, Troon, Scotland · Wednesday 11 to Saturday 14 July 1973 · purse £50,000 · winner's share £5,500
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 43 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R116°/13°C · wind 22 km/h WNW, gusts 36 · 2.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/13°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 27 · 1.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/14°C · wind 13 km/h WSW, gusts 24 · 4.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R416°/13°C · wind 10 km/h WNW, gusts 21 · 5.6 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.
153 started, 60 (cut at 152) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Troon Golf Club (Old Course), Troon
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Johnny Miller, Neil Coles
The golfer
b. 1942-11-09, Massillon, Ohio, USA; United States; age 30 at the win (year page); 1st 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