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Sunday 9 August 1987European TourYear in Review

Clark wins PLM Open

Ljunghusen, Sweden (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 August 1987 · Howard Clark’s win no. 10 on the European Tour · purse £150,000 GBP · end from season-table date; start from OWGR event startDate

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

The weather

15 h 38 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 47° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

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

The ones it got away from

136 started, 69 made it

Same week

DP World Tour event

PLM Open

Ljunghusen, Ljunghusen, Sweden

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Howard Clark

271Total
−17To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Howard Clark68 · 73 · 67 · 63271−17
2Ossie Moore
3Peter Senior
T4Gordon J Brand
T4Vicente Fernandez
6Ronan Rafferty
7Chris Moody
T8Anders Forsbrand
T8Magnus Persson Atlevi
T8Des Smyth
T8Barry Lane
The golfer

born 1954-08-26, Leeds, England; ENG; turned pro 1973; age 32 that week; tour wins to date: 10.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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