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Sunday 27 September 1992Women’s tour eventsYear in Review

Sheehan wins Weetabix Women's British Open

Woburn Golf Club, Little Brickhill, England · Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 September 1992 · purse £300,000 · winner's share £50,000

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

The weather

11 h 29 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 35° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R116°/9°C · wind 18 km/h SSW, gusts 37 · 3.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R212°/9°C · wind 14 km/h NE, gusts 29 · 10.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R320°/11°C · wind 14 km/h ESE, gusts 37 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R420°/12°C · wind 16 km/h ESE, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. Ladies' British Open
  2. AIG Women's Open
  3. Women's British Open
  4. Pretty Polly Women's British Open
  5. Hitachi Ladies British Open
  6. Burberry Women's British Open
  7. Weetabix Women's British Open
  8. Ricoh Women's British Open
  9. 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

Patty Sheehan

3 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Corinne Dibnah

Score and to par not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1956-10-27, Middlebury, Vermont, United States; United States; age 35 at the win (year page)

Patty Sheehan’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet