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Sunday 3 April 1988PGA TourYear in Review

Lyle wins KMart Greater Greensboro Open

Forest Oaks, North Carolina (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 31 March to Sunday 3 April 1988 · Sandy Lyle’s win no. 5 on the PGA Tour · purse 1,000,000 USD · start and end dates from the OWGR event page; end date matches the 1988 PGA Tour season table

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

The weather

12 h 30 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° 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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The name over time

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

The ones it got away from

147 started, 81 made it

Same week

PGA Tour event

KMart Greater Greensboro Open

Forest Oaks, Forest Oaks, North Carolina

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Sandy Lyle

271Total
−17To par
PlayoffMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Sandy Lyle68 · 63 · 68 · 72271−17
2Ken Green
3Jeff Sluman
4Scott Hoch
5Gil Morgan
T6Chip Beck
T6Donnie Hammond
T6Tom Purtzer
T6Kenny Perry
T10Bobby Clampett
T10Joey Sindelar
T10Mark Wiebe
T10Chen Tze-Chung
T10Keith Clearwater
The golfer

born 1958-02-09, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; SCO; turned pro 1977; tour wins to date: 5.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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