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Sunday 12 July 1987PGA TourYear in Review

McCumber wins Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic

Kingsmill Golf Club, Williamsburg, Virginia (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 July 1987 · Mark McCumber’s win no. 5 on the PGA Tour · purse 612,000 USD · start/end as OWGR lists them; end matches the Wikipedia season table (Jul 12)

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 23 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 75° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
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  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

155 started, 75 made it

Same week

PGA Tour event

Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic

Kingsmill Golf Club (River Course), Kingsmill Golf Club, Williamsburg, Virginia

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Mark McCumber

267Total
−17To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Mark McCumber65 · 69 · 67 · 66267−17
2Bobby Clampett
3Scott Hoch
4John Cook
T5Chris Perry
T5Denis Watson
T7Tim Simpson
T7D A Weibring
T9Vance Heafner
T9Tom Sieckmann
The golfer

born 1951-09-07, Jacksonville, Florida; USA; turned pro 1974; age 35 that week; tour wins to date: 5.

Source

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

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