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Sunday 25 October 1981PGA TourYear in Review

Heafner and Holland win Walt Disney World National Team Championship

Lake Buena Vista, Florida (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 October 1981 · Vance Heafner’s win no. 1 on the PGA Tour · purse 400,000 (season table Purse US$); SI: $400,000 USD · start 1981-10-22 from UPI's Oct. 22, 1981 dateline story ('begins today at Walt Disney World'); end Oct 25 from season table and both winners' wins tables

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

11 h 03 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 49° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

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The ones it got away from

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

PGA Tour event

Walt Disney World National Team Championship

Lake Buena Vista, Florida

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Vance Heafner and Mike Holland

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5 strokesMargin

To par and runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Vance Heafner60 · 62 · 61 · 63246
1Mike Holland60 · 62 · 61 · 63246
2Chip Beck
2Rex Caldwell
The golfer

born 1954-08-11, Charlotte, North Carolina; USA; turned pro 1978; tour wins to date: 1.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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