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Saturday 10 July 1993European TourYear in Review

Parnevik wins Bell's Scottish Open

Gleneagles (King's Course), Scotland (region; the course comes with research) · Jesper Parnevik’s win no. 1 on the European Tour · purse £600,000 GBP · Bell's · final round Saturday 10 July (The Independent, 11 Jul: "yesterday"; Wikipedia season table 10 Jul); OWGR lists 8-11 Jul (its ranking week) - start date not stated by a page read

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

The weather

17 h 04 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a waning 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

  • Payne Stewart USA · 276began the final round seven behind Parnevik; a double-bogey five at the eighth ended his slim chance and he closed with a 69, five strokes back (his fourth second place of the season) Golf: Parnevik fulfils his dream

154 started, 74 made it

Same week

DP World Tour event

Bell's Scottish Open

Gleneagles (King's Course), Gleneagles (King's Course), Scotland

4 of 5 researched

Winner

Jesper Parnevik

271Total
−9To par
5 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

From the papers

The Independent

I've tried 10 times to play in the Open and failed. One day I knew I would make it, but never like this. This is a dream,

Jesper Parnevik, quoted in The Independent, 11 July 1993. The report

The Independent

It was so weird walking down the last hole knowing I had won, so weird.

Jesper Parnevik, quoted in The Independent, 11 July 1993. The report

The Independent

My time is coming. My confidence is high and this is going to be a very special year for me.

Payne Stewart, quoted in The Independent, 12 July 1993. The report
Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Jesper Parnevik64 · 66 · 70 · 71271−9
2Payne Stewart71 · 69 · 67 · 69276
T3Jose Rivero77 · 66 · 68 · 67278
T3Gary Orr70 · 72 · 72 · 64278
T5Sam Torrance73 · 65 · 71 · 70279
T5Paul Way69 · 74 · 70 · 66279
7Christy O'Connor Jr.71 · 70 · 70 · 70281
T8Roger Chapman69 · 71 · 73 · 69282
T8Robert Lee67 · 71 · 73 · 71282
T8Sandy Lyle73 · 67 · 69 · 73282
T8Mark Roe73 · 72 · 68 · 69282
T8Gary Evans69 · 68 · 73 · 72282
The golfer

born 1965-03-07, Botkyrka, Sweden; SWE; turned pro 1986; age 28 that week; tour wins to date: 1; world No. 172 that week (OWGR event page rankFrom (event 1245)).

Source

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet