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Sunday 9 April 1989European TourYear in Review

Jnr wins Jersey European Airways Open

La Moye Golf Club, Jersey (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 April 1989 · Christy O'Connor Jnr’s win no. 3 on the European Tour · purse £150,000 GBP · start and end dates from OWGR event page; end date matches 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

13 h 07 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 48° 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

100 started, 67 made it

Same week

DP World Tour event

Jersey European Airways Open

La Moye Golf Club, La Moye Golf Club, Jersey

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Christy O'Connor Jnr

281Total
−3To par
PlayoffMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Christy O'Connor Jnr73 · 70 · 66 · 72281−3
2Denis Durnian
T3Mats Lanner
T3Paul Broadhurst
T5B'nard Gallacher
T5Ronan Rafferty
T5Des Smyth
T5Sam Torrance
T5Colin Montgomerie
T10Peter Fowler
T10Barry Lane
The golfer

born 1948-08-19, County Galway, Ireland; IRL; turned pro 1967; age 40 that week; tour wins to date: 3; world No. 83 that week (OWGR rankBefore (OWGR player events table)).

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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