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Sunday 23 July 1989Men’s majorsYear in Review
Calcavecchia wins the Open
Royal Troon Golf Club, Troon, Scotland · Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 July 1989 · purse £750,000 · 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 17 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 54° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R124°/17°C · wind 12 km/h ESE, gusts 19 · 2.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R223°/18°C · wind 16 km/h ESE, gusts 29 · 1.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R322°/15°C · wind 13 km/h SSW, gusts 29 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R420°/14°C · wind 13 km/h WNW, gusts 27 · 0 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.
156 started, 80 (cut at 146) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Royal Troon Golf Club (Old Course), Troon
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Wayne Grady, Greg Norman
The golfer
b. 1960-06-12, Laurel, USA; United States; age 29 at the win (year page); 1st 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