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Saturday 26 July 1980Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
Massey wins Pretty Polly Women's British Open
Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, England · Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 July 1980 · purse £15,000 · winner's share £4,500
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 26 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 58° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R122°/11°C · wind 13 km/h WSW, gusts 25 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/13°C · wind 16 km/h ESE, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R320°/14°C · wind 14 km/h SW, gusts 32 · 8.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Ladies' British Open
- AIG Women's Open
- Women's British Open
- Pretty Polly Women's British Open
- Hitachi Ladies British Open
- Burberry Women's British Open
- Weetabix Women's British Open
- Ricoh Women's British Open
- 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.
Women's tour event
Pretty Polly Women's British Open
Wentworth Club (East Course), Virginia Water
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Marta Figueras-Dotti, Belle Robertson
The golfer
b. 1950-11-05, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, U.S.; United States
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet