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Friday 3 September 1976Women’s tour eventsYear in Review

Smith wins Ladies' British Open

Fulford Golf Club, York, England · Wednesday 1 to Friday 3 September 1976 · purse £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

13 h 13 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 43° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R118°/8°C · wind 22 km/h NNW, gusts 42 · 1.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R215°/8°C · wind 32 km/h NNW, gusts 56 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R319°/8°C · wind 21 km/h WNW, gusts 44 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. Ladies' British Open
  2. AIG Women's Open
  3. Women's British Open
  4. Pretty Polly Women's British Open
  5. Hitachi Ladies British Open
  6. Burberry Women's British Open
  7. Weetabix Women's British Open
  8. Ricoh Women's British Open
  9. AIG Women's British Open

1976–2026 in our record, 50 editions.

The ones it got away from

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

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