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Sunday 22 July 1990PGA Tour · European TourYear in Review
Faldo wins the Open
St Andrews Links, St Andrews, Scotland · Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 July 1990 · Nick Faldo’s win no. 5 on the PGA Tour · purse £500,000 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 29 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 54° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R124°/14°C · wind 20 km/h SW, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R219°/14°C · wind 18 km/h SE, gusts 35 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/13°C · wind 14 km/h E, gusts 25 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R415°/13°C · wind 15 km/h E, 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
- Mark McNulty ZIM · 275five strokes behind (tied second) 1990 Open Championship - Wikipedia
- Payne Stewart USA · 275five strokes behind (tied second) 1990 Open Championship - Wikipedia
156 started · cut −1, 72 made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Old Course, St Andrews, St Andrews
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Mark McNulty, Payne Stewart
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nick Faldo | 67 · 65 · 67 · 71 | 270 | −18 |
| T2 | Mark McNulty | 74 · 68 · 68 · 65 | 275 | −13 |
| T2 | Payne Stewart | 68 · 68 · 68 · 71 | 275 | −13 |
| T4 | Jodie Mudd | 72 · 66 · 72 · 66 | 276 | −12 |
| T4 | Ian Woosnam | 68 · 69 · 70 · 69 | 276 | −12 |
| T6 | Ian Baker-Finch | 68 · 72 · 64 · 73 | 277 | −11 |
| T6 | Greg Norman | 66 · 66 · 76 · 69 | 277 | −11 |
| T8 | David Graham | 72 · 71 · 70 · 66 | 279 | −9 |
| T8 | Donnie Hammond | 70 · 71 · 68 · 70 | 279 | −9 |
| T8 | Steve Pate | 70 · 68 · 72 · 69 | 279 | −9 |
| T8 | Corey Pavin | 71 · 69 · 68 · 71 | 279 | −9 |
The golfer
born 1957-07-18, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England; ENG; age 33 that week.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
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