Golf Network News
Monday 18 July 1988Men’s majorsYear in Review
Ballesteros wins the Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Thursday 14 to Monday 18 July 1988 · purse £700,000 · winner's share £80,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
16 h 10 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R114°/14°C · wind 43 km/h NW, gusts 71 · 4.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R214°/13°C · wind 33 km/h NW, gusts 53 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R315°/13°C · wind 24 km/h W, gusts 38 · 14.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R415°/13°C · wind 32 km/h WNW, gusts 47 · 2.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R516°/13°C · wind 30 km/h W, gusts 46 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- The Open
1860–2026 in our record, 154 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
153 started, 71 (cut at 148) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Nick Price
The golfer
b. 1957-04-09, Pedrena, Spain; Spain; age 31 at the win (year page); 5th major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet