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Sunday 22 May 1988PGA TourYear in Review

Wadkins wins Colonial National Invitation

Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas · Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 May 1988 · Lanny Wadkins’s win no. 18 on the PGA Tour · purse 750,000 USD

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

The weather

13 h 51 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 78° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R132°/20°C · wind 23 km/h S, gusts 45 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R228°/19°C · wind 16 km/h SSW, gusts 34 · 3.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R328°/17°C · wind 20 km/h W, gusts 39 · 14.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R423°/16°C · wind 30 km/h WNW, gusts 51 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

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

The ones it got away from

103 started, 74 made it

Same week

PGA Tour event

Colonial National Invitation

Colonial Country Club, Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Lanny Wadkins

270Total
−10To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Lanny Wadkins67 · 68 · 70 · 65270−10
T2Mark Calcavecchia
T2Ben Crenshaw
T2Joey Sindelar
5Clarence Rose
T6Scott Hoch
T6Mark Wiebe
T6David Graham
T9Chip Beck
T9David Frost
The golfer

born 1949-12-05, Richmond, Virginia; USA; turned pro 1971; age 38 that week; tour wins to date: 18; majors to date: 1.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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