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Sunday 23 July 1989PGA Tour · European TourYear in Review

Calcavecchia wins the Open

Royal Troon Golf Club, Troon, Scotland · Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 July 1989 · Mark Calcavecchia’s win no. 6 on the PGA Tour · purse £725,000 GBP

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).

  1. R124°/17°C · wind 12 km/h ESE, gusts 19 · 2.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R223°/18°C · wind 16 km/h ESE, gusts 29 · 1.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R322°/15°C · wind 13 km/h SSW, gusts 29 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. 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

  1. The Open

1860–2026 in our record, 154 editions.

The ones it got away from

156 started · cut +2, 80 made it

Same week

Men's major

The Open

Royal Troon Golf Club (Old Course), Troon

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Mark Calcavecchia

275Total
−13To par
playoff: 4-hole aggregate (first); beat Wayne Grady; Greg Norman; Calcavecchia 13 (4-3-3-3); Grady 16 (4-4-4-4); Norman did not hole outMargin
PlayoffDecided

Runner-up: Wayne Grady, Greg Norman

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
T1Mark Calcavecchia71 · 68 · 68 · 68275−13
T1Greg Norman69 · 70 · 72 · 64275−13
T1Wayne Grady68 · 67 · 69 · 71275−13
4Tom Watson69 · 68 · 68 · 72277−11
5Jodie Mudd73 · 67 · 68 · 70278−10
T6Fred Couples68 · 71 · 68 · 72279−9
T6David Feherty71 · 67 · 69 · 72279−9
T8Eduardo Romero68 · 70 · 75 · 67280−8
T8Paul Azinger68 · 73 · 67 · 72280−8
T8Payne Stewart72 · 65 · 69 · 74280−8
The golfer

born 1960-06-12, Laurel, Nebraska, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1981; tour wins to date: 6; majors to date: 1.

Mark Calcavecchia’s player card · Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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