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Sunday 15 August 1993European TourYear in Review

Rafferty wins Hohe Brücke Austrian Open

Vienna, Austria (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 August 1993 · Ronan Rafferty’s win no. 7 on the European Tour · purse £250,000 GBP · Hohe Brücke · start/end dates from the OWGR event page

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

The weather

14 h 04 m

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

  • Anders Sorensen DEN · 274led by four with 10 holes played after an eagle two at the 448-yard 10th, was caught by Rafferty's three closing birdies and missed a four-foot putt at the first play-off hole Golf: Rafferty rides in

103 started, 65 made it

Same week

DP World Tour event

Hohe Brücke Austrian Open

Vienna, Austria

4 of 5 researched

Winner

Ronan Rafferty

274Total
−14To par
playoffMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

From the papers

The Independent

I was four shots behind and I was not hitting the ball particularly close to the pins, so I thought he had wrapped it up. But I birdied the last three holes to get into a play-off.

Ronan Rafferty, quoted in The Independent, 16 August 1993. The report
Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Ronan Rafferty65 · 69 · 72 · 68274−14
2Anders Sorensen70 · 67 · 68 · 69274−14
3Per-Ulrik Johansson70 · 67 · 70 · 68275
T4Jamie Taylor66 · 71 · 68 · 71276
T4Sven Struver72 · 63 · 72 · 69276
T6Greg Turner68 · 67 · 71 · 72278
T6Paul Mayo68 · 70 · 67 · 73278
T8Brian Barnes72 · 68 · 69 · 71280
T8Charles Raulerson68 · 67 · 69 · 76280
T8David R Jones72 · 68 · 70 · 70280
T8Steven Bowman72 · 68 · 68 · 72280
The golfer

born 1964-01-13, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland; NIR; turned pro 1981; age 29 that week; tour wins to date: 7; majors to date: 0; world No. 46 that week (OWGR event page rankFrom (event 1257)).

Source

What’s in the bag

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