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Sunday 14 August 1988European TourYear in Review

Nobilo wins PLM Open

Flommen, Sweden (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 August 1988 · Frank Nobilo’s win no. 1 on the European Tour · purse 200,000 (season table column 'Purse (£)') GBP · PLM · end = date column of the 1988 European Tour season table and the winner's Wikipedia wins table; start = OWGR event page 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 09 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 45° up at noon, and that night a waxing 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

  • Howard Clark ENGfinished second, 1 stroke behind (event article and winner's Wikipedia wins table) PLM Open - Wikipedia

136 started

Same week

DP World Tour event

PLM Open

Flommen, Flommen, Sweden

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Frank Nobilo

270Total
−10To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Frank Nobilo63 · 68 · 71 · 68270−10
2Howard Clark
T3Anders Forsbrand
T3Peter Fowler
T3Colin Montgomerie
6Ove Sellberg
7Anders Sorensen
T8Stephen Bennett
T8Tony Charnley
T8Mark Mouland
T8Magnus Persson Atlevi
T8Craig Parry
The golfer

born 1960-05-14, Auckland, New Zealand; NZL; turned pro 1979; 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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