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Sunday 12 August 1990European TourYear in Review

Johnstone wins Murphy's Cup

Fulford, England (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 August 1990 · Tony Johnstone’s win no. 2 on the European Tour · purse £250,000 (season table, Purse(£) column: 250,000) GBP · Murphy's · Start date from OWGR event page; end date on season table and OWGR.

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

14 h 41 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 52° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
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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

120 started, 60 made it

Same week

DP World Tour event

Murphy's Cup

Fulford, Fulford, England

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Tony Johnstone

50 pointsTotal
2 pointsMargin

To par and runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Tony Johnstone6 · 23 · 6 · 1550 points
2Malcolm Mackenzie
3Russell Claydon
4Sandy Lyle
5Martin Poxon
6Barry Lane
T7Christy O'Connor-Jnr
T7Paul Way
T7Glyn Krause
10Peter Baker
The golfer

born 1956-05-02, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); ZIM; age 34 that week; tour wins to date: 2; world No. 110 that week (OWGR rankBefore (player events table; matches event page rankFrom)).

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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