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Sunday 2 August 1987Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
Nicholas wins Weetabix Women's British Open
St Mellion International Resort, St Mellion, England · Thursday 30 July to Sunday 2 August 1987 · purse £100,000 · winner's share £15,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 01 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/13°C · wind 25 km/h NW, gusts 47 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R219°/16°C · wind 27 km/h WNW, gusts 48 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R319°/13°C · wind 26 km/h WNW, gusts 50 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/14°C · wind 29 km/h WNW, gusts 54 · 1 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.
· cut 159
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's tour event
Weetabix Women's British Open
St Mellion (then the Old course, St Mellion
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Laura Davies, Muffin Spencer-Devlin
The golfer
b. 1962-03-06, Gibraltar; England; age 25 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