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Saturday 29 October 1988PGA TourYear in Review

Lohr wins Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic

Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 27 to Saturday 29 October 1988 · Bob Lohr’s win no. 1 on the PGA Tour · purse 700,000 USD · start from OWGR event page; end Oct 29 per season table and Lohr wins table (playoff); OWGR week end date 1988-10-30 (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

10 h 55 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 47° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous 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

129 started, 74 made it

Same week

PGA Tour event

Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic

Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Bob Lohr

263Total
−25To par
PlayoffMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Bob Lohr62 · 67 · 66 · 68263−25
2Chip Beck
T3Bruce Lietzke
T3Fuzzy Zoeller
T5Paul Azinger
T5Mike Donald
T5Dan Pohl
T8Larry Nelson
T8Gene Sauers
T8Mark Wiebe
T8Robert Wrenn
The golfer

born 1960-11-02, Cincinnati, Ohio; USA; turned pro 1983; age 27 that week; tour wins to date: 1.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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