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Sunday 2 October 1994PGA TourYear in Review
Elkington wins Buick Southern Open
Callaway Gardens Resort (Mountain View Course), Pine Mountain, Georgia (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 29 September to Sunday 2 October 1994 · Steve Elkington’s win no. 4 on the PGA Tour · purse 800,000 USD · Buick · weather: shortened to 54 holes due to rain (Wikipedia winners-table note)
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 36 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 52° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
- R2Not yet researched
- R3Not yet researched
- R4Not yet researched
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Steve Rintoul AUS · 205finished five strokes behind Elkington over the rain-shortened 54 holes Sporting Digest: Golf (Buick Southern Open leading final scores), 4 October 1994, The Independent
150 started, 88 made it
Same week
PGA Tour event
Buick Southern Open
Callaway Gardens Resort, Mountain View Course, Callaway Gardens Resort (Mountain View Course), Pine Mountain, Georgia
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Steve Elkington
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steve Elkington | 66 · 66 · 68 | 200 | −16 |
| 2 | Steve Rintoul | 70 · 65 · 70 | 205 | |
| 3 | Brad Bryant | 70 · 68 · 69 | 207 | |
| T4 | Buddy Gardner | 71 · 69 · 68 | 208 | |
| T4 | Steve Pate | 69 · 71 · 68 | 208 | |
| T4 | Gene Sauers | 72 · 67 · 69 | 208 | |
| T7 | Larry Mize | 69 · 73 · 67 | 209 | |
| T7 | Bobby Wadkins | 69 · 72 · 68 | 209 | |
| T7 | Blaine McCallister | 69 · 71 · 69 | 209 | |
| T7 | Jeff Sluman | 69 · 70 · 70 | 209 |
The golfer
born 1962-12-08, Inverell, New South Wales, Australia; AUS; turned pro 1985; age 31 that week; tour wins to date: 4; majors to date: 0; world No. 38 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by OWGR player profile events table 1994).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet