Golf Network News
Sunday 17 July 1994Men’s majorsYear in Review
Price wins the Open
Turnberry, Turnberry, Scotland · Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 July 1994 · purse £1,100,000 · winner's share £110,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
16 h 32 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/9°C · wind 25 km/h S, gusts 46 · 3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R214°/12°C · wind 20 km/h WNW, gusts 39 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R314°/9°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R419°/9°C · wind 14 km/h SE, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- The Open
1860–2026 in our record, 154 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
156 started, 81 (cut at 143) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Turnberry (Ailsa Course), Turnberry
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jesper Parnevik
The golfer
b. 1957-01-28, Durban, South Africa; Zimbabwe; age 37 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet