Golf Network News
Saturday 6 October 1984Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
Okamoto wins Hitachi Ladies British Open
Woburn Golf Club, Little Brickhill, England · Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 October 1984 · purse £160,000 · winner's share £25,000 (US$200,000)
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
10 h 52 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 31° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R114°/5°C · wind 21 km/h E, gusts 38 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R211°/8°C · wind 31 km/h N, gusts 59 · 4.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R313°/6°C · wind 29 km/h NW, gusts 55 · 0 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.
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's tour event
Hitachi Ladies British Open
Woburn Golf & Country Club (Duke's Course), Little Brickhill (near Milton Keynes)
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Betsy King, Dale Reid
The golfer
b. 1951-04-02, Akitsu, Hiroshima; Japan; age 33 at the win (year page)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet