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Saturday 31 July 1982Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
Figueras-Dotti wins Pretty Polly Women's British Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England · Thursday 29 to Saturday 31 July 1982 · purse £23,000
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 32 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R120°/14°C · wind 16 km/h E, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R222°/13°C · wind 21 km/h E, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R321°/15°C · wind 27 km/h ENE, gusts 41 · 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.
160 started, 40 made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's tour event
Pretty Polly Women's British Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport
1 of 5 researched
Winner
Marta Figueras-Dotti (an amateur)
Runner-up: Rosie Jones, Jenny Lee Smith
Top 10
Not yet researched
The golfer
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet