Golf Network News
Sunday 6 October 1985Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
King wins Burberry Women's British Open
Moor Park Golf Club, Rickmansworth, England · Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 October 1985 · purse £60,000 · winner's share £9,000
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 57 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 32° up at noon, and that night a last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/13°C · wind 40 km/h SSW, gusts 85 · 2.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R217°/12°C · wind 38 km/h SSW, gusts 74 · 0.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R317°/10°C · wind 20 km/h SSW, gusts 39 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/10°C · wind 35 km/h S, gusts 68 · 5.1 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
Burberry Women's British Open
Moor Park Golf Club (combination of High and West courses), Rickmansworth
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Marta Figueras-Dotti
Score and to par not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1955-08-13, Reading, Pennsylvania, United States; United States; age 30 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