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Sunday 4 August 1991PGA TourYear in Review
Faxon wins Buick Open
Michigan · Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 August 1991 · Brad Faxon’s win no. 1 on the PGA Tour · purse US$1,000,000 USD · start date from the OWGR event page startDate
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
Daylight needs a date and a place.
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- R4Not yet researched
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Chip Becklisted as runner-up in the Wikipedia winners table (1991 row) Buick Open (Wikipedia)
156 started, 74 made it
Same week
PGA Tour event
Buick Open
Michigan
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Brad Faxon
271Total
−17To par
Margin and runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brad Faxon | ||
| 2 | Chip Beck | ||
| T3 | John Cook | ||
| T3 | Scott Hoch | ||
| T3 | Steve Pate | ||
| T6 | Gene Sauers | ||
| T6 | Hal Sutton | ||
| T6 | Howard Twitty | ||
| T6 | Nick Faldo | ||
| T10 | Tim Simpson | ||
| T10 | Wayne Grady | ||
| T10 | Greg Norman | ||
| T10 | Bill Britton | ||
| T10 | Marco Dawson |
The golfer
born 1961-08-01; USA; age 30 that week; tour wins to date: 1; world No. 143 that week (OWGR rankFrom (event page)).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet