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Sunday 5 August 1990Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
Alfredsson wins Weetabix Women's British Open
Woburn Golf Club, Little Brickhill, England · Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 August 1990 · purse £130,000 · winner's share £20,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 02 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R132°/16°C · wind 16 km/h SE, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R234°/15°C · wind 12 km/h S, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R329°/16°C · wind 15 km/h NW, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R422°/12°C · wind 22 km/h NW, gusts 41 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Ladies' British Open
- AIG Women's Open
- Women's British Open
- Pretty Polly Women's British Open
- Hitachi Ladies British Open
- Burberry Women's British Open
- Weetabix Women's British Open
- Ricoh Women's British Open
- AIG Women's British Open
1976–2026 in our record, 50 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's tour event
Weetabix Women's British Open
Woburn Golf & Country Club (Duke's Course), Little Brickhill (near Milton Keynes)
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jane Hill
The golfer
b. 1965, Gothenburg, Sweden; Sweden; age 25 at the win (year page)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet