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Sunday 24 February 1991European TourYear in Review

Richardson wins Girona Open

Golf Platja de Pals, Girona, Catalonia, Spain (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February 1991 · Steven Richardson’s win no. 1 on the European Tour · purse £250,000 (season table, Purse(£) column) GBP · Start date from OWGR event page (1991-02-21); end date from 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

10 h 50 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 40° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

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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

129 started, 76 made it

Same week

DP World Tour event

Girona Open

Golf Platja de Pals, Golf Platja de Pals, Girona, Catalonia, Spain

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Steven Richardson

272Total
−16To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Steven Richardson71 · 64 · 67 · 70272−16
2Miguel A Jimenez
3Jose Rivero
4Per-Ulrik Johansson
5Russell Claydon
6Keith Waters
7Bill Longmuir
7Sam Torrance
7Vijay Singh
7Miguel Angel Martin
The golfer

born 1966-07-24, Windsor, Berkshire, England; ENG; turned pro 1989; age 24 that week; tour wins to date: 1; world No. 134 that week (OWGR rankBefore).

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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