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Saturday 13 July 1974Men’s majorsYear in Review
Player wins the Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Wednesday 10 to Saturday 13 July 1974 · 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 25 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 58° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/14°C · wind 32 km/h WSW, gusts 50 · 4.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/13°C · wind 33 km/h W, gusts 52 · 1.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/12°C · wind 27 km/h W, gusts 41 · 1.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R415°/12°C · wind 23 km/h WNW, gusts 40 · 0.9 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.
154 started, 60 (cut at 156) made it
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 Oosterhuis
The golfer
b. 1935-11-01, Johannesburg, South Africa; South Africa; age 38 at the win (year page); 8th 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