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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).

  1. R120°/14°C · wind 16 km/h E, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R222°/13°C · wind 21 km/h E, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. 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

  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.

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)

296Total
ETo par
1 strokeMargin

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