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Sunday 17 July 1983Men’s majorsYear in Review
Watson wins the Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England · Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 July 1983 · purse £310,000 · winner's share £40,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
16 h 14 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 58° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R121°/16°C · wind 17 km/h NW, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R221°/16°C · wind 18 km/h NW, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R321°/16°C · wind 14 km/h N, gusts 26 · 1.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R420°/15°C · wind 16 km/h N, gusts 28 · 1.1 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.
151 started, 63 (cut at 146) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Andy Bean, Hale Irwin
The golfer
b. 1949-09-04, Kansas City, Missouri, USA; United States; age 33 at the win (year page); 8th 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