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Sunday 3 May 1992PGA TourYear in Review

Funk wins Shell Houston Open

TPC at The Woodlands, The Woodlands, Texas (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 30 April to Sunday 3 May 1992 · Fred Funk’s win no. 1 on the PGA Tour · purse 1,200,000 USD · Shell

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

The weather

13 h 18 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 75° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent 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

154 started, 80 made it

Same week

PGA Tour event

Shell Houston Open

TPC at The Woodlands, TPC at The Woodlands, The Woodlands, Texas

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Fred Funk

272Total
−16To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Fred Funk68 · 72 · 62 · 70272−16
2Kirk Triplett
3Billy Ray Brown
4Fulton Allem
T5Mark Brooks
T5Blaine McCallister
T7Rick Fehr
T7Dan Forsman
T7Nick Price
T7Robert Gamez
The golfer

born 1956-06-14, Takoma Park, Maryland; USA; turned pro 1981; age 35 that week; tour wins to date: 1; majors to date: 0; world No. 198 that week (OWGR rankBefore (OWGR player profile events table, 1992)).

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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