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Friday 2 September 1977Women’s tour eventsYear in Review

Saunders wins AIG Women's Open

Lindrick Golf Club, Worksop, England · Wednesday 31 August to Friday 2 September 1977 · purse £500 · winner's share £210

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 20 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 44° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R116°/10°C · wind 13 km/h SSW, gusts 25 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R218°/10°C · wind 38 km/h SSW, gusts 65 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R317°/10°C · wind 26 km/h WSW, gusts 48 · 0.2 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.

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.