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Sunday 25 May 1986PGA TourYear in Review

Sutton wins Memorial Tournament

Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio · Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 May 1986 · Hal Sutton’s win no. 7 on the PGA Tour · purse 577,730 USD · start/end as OWGR lists them; end matches the Wikipedia season table (May 25) and Sutton's wins table (May 25, 1986)

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

The weather

14 h 30 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R115°/9°C · wind 12 km/h WSW, gusts 31 · 0.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R219°/10°C · wind 10 km/h NNW, gusts 24 · 0.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R323°/10°C · wind 10 km/h E, gusts 19 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R423°/13°C · wind 12 km/h E, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

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

The ones it got away from

102 started, 76 made it

Same week

PGA Tour event

Memorial Tournament

Muirfield Village Golf Club, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Hal Sutton

271Total
−17To par
4 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Hal Sutton68 · 69 · 66 · 68271−17
2Don Pooley
T3Johnny Miller
T3Mark O'Meara
T5John Mahaffey
T5Jack Nicklaus
T7Chip Beck
T7Scott Simpson
T7Payne Stewart
T10Tom Purtzer
T10Craig Stadler
T10Doug Tewell
T10Greg Norman
The golfer

born 1958-04-28, Shreveport, Louisiana; USA; turned pro 1981; age 28 that week; tour wins to date: 7; majors to date: 1.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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