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Sunday 19 July 1981Men’s majorsYear in Review
Rogers wins the Open
Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, England · Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 July 1981 · purse £200,000 · winner's share £25,000
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 46 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/13°C · wind 29 km/h WSW, gusts 50 · 2.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/12°C · wind 20 km/h W, gusts 36 · 6.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/12°C · wind 20 km/h NNW, gusts 40 · 1.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/12°C · wind 20 km/h WSW, gusts 35 · 0.7 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, 61 (cut at 150) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Bernhard Langer
The golfer
b. 1951-09-10, Waco, Texas, USA; United States; age 29 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