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Saturday 9 July 1988European TourYear in Review

Lane wins Bell's Scottish Open

Gleneagles (King's Course), Scotland (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 July 1988 · Barry Lane’s win no. 1 on the European Tour · purse £250,000 GBP · end from season table '9 Jul' (Barry Lane article also '9 Jul'); start from OWGR event page startDate; OWGR endDate 1988-07-10 (week date) - see conflicts

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

The weather

17 h 04 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent 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

156 started, 67 made it

Same week

DP World Tour event

Bell's Scottish Open

Gleneagles (King's Course), Gleneagles (King's Course), Scotland

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Barry Lane

271Total
−13To par
3 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Barry Lane70 · 67 · 66 · 68271−13
T2Sandy Lyle
T2Jose Rivero
4Roger Chapman
5Peter Fowler
T6Mats Lanner
T6José María Olazábal
T8Rodger Davis
T8David Graham
T8Russell Weir
T8David Gilford
The golfer

born 1960-06-21, Hayes, Middlesex, England; ENG; turned pro 1976; age 28 that week; tour wins to date: 1.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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