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Sunday 21 September 1986European TourYear in Review

Woosnam wins Lawrence Batley International T.P.C.

England (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 September 1986 · Ian Woosnam’s win no. 4 on the European Tour · purse £125,000 GBP · Lawrence Batley · start and end dates from the OWGR event page; end matches the season table date

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

11 h 58 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 37° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
  2. R2Not yet researched
  3. R3Not yet researched
  4. R4Not yet researched

The name over time

Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.

The ones it got away from

  • Ken Brown SCOtied second, 7 strokes behind (event article and winner's wins table; OWGR T2) Ian Woosnam - Wikipedia
  • José María Cañizarestied second, 7 strokes behind per Wikipedia (event article and winner's wins table); OWGR has Kariem Baraka, not Cañizares, at T2 -> see conflicts Lawrence Batley International - Wikipedia

137 started

Same week

DP World Tour event

Lawrence Batley International T.P.C.

England

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Ian Woosnam

277Total
−11To par
7 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Ian Woosnam71 · 71 · 66 · 69277−11
T2Ken Brown
T2Kariem Baraka
T4Ross Drummond
T4Neil Hansen
T4Jose Rivero
T4Jeff Hawkes
T4Michael Allen
9Anders Forsbrand
T10Greg Powers
T10Stephen Bennett
T10Christy O'Connor Jnr
T10Manuel Pinero
T10Ron Stelten
The golfer

born 1958-03-02, Oswestry, England; WAL; turned pro 1976; age 28 that week; tour wins to date: 4.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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