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Sunday 12 February 1995European TourYear in Review

Sandelin wins Turespaña Open De Canaria

Campo de Golf da Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 February 1995 · Jarmo Sandelin’s win no. 1 on the European Tour · purse 250,000 (Purse column headed £) GBP · Turespaña · Dates from OWGR's 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

10 h 21 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 36° up at noon, and that night a waxing 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

128 started, 69 made it

Same week

DP World Tour event

Turespaña Open De Canaria

Campo de Golf da Maspalomas, Campo de Golf da Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain

4 of 5 researched

Winner

Jarmo Sandelin

282Total
−6To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

From the papers

The Independent

I had played a bad second shot and you have to be lucky. But this was my week and that is why the ball went into the hole.

Jarmo Sandelin, quoted in The Independent, 13 February 1995. The report

The Independent

I was also lucky when Seve missed that last putt. He would have been very hard to beat in a play-off.

Jarmo Sandelin, quoted in The Independent, 13 February 1995. The report
Top 10
PosPlayerTotalTo par
1Jarmo Sandelin282−6
T2Seve Ballesteros
T2Paul Eales
4Anders Forsbrand
T5Gary Emerson
T5Darren Clarke
T5Sven Struver
8Paolo Quirici
T9Gordon Brand Jr.
T9Derrick Cooper
T9Paul Curry
T9John McHenry
T9Pedro Linhart
T9Gary Orr
The golfer

born 1967-05-10, Imatra, Finland; SWE; turned pro 1987; age 27 that week; tour wins to date: 1; world No. 757 that week (OWGR rankBefore 757 from the OWGR player profile 1995 events table (https://www.owgr.com/playerprofile/jarmo-sandelin-5469). Born/birthplace/turned pro: Wikipedia infobox. tour_wins_to_date: Wikipedia 1995 season table number. Age 27 stated by The Independent ('a 27-year-old from Stockholm'). majors_to_date null: infobox majorwins blank.).

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What’s in the bag

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