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Sunday 12 October 1986Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
Davies wins Women's British Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England · Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 October 1986 · 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 27 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 28° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R116°/13°C · wind 21 km/h SSW, gusts 45 · 4.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R214°/11°C · wind 16 km/h W, gusts 30 · 5.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R313°/8°C · wind 15 km/h W, gusts 22 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R414°/8°C · wind 19 km/h SSE, gusts 31 · 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
Women's British Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Peggy Conley, Marta Figueras-Dotti
The golfer
b. 1963-10-05, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; England; age 23 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