Golf Network News
Sunday 21 July 1996Men’s majorsYear in Review
Lehman wins the Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 July 1996 · purse £1,400,000 · winner's share £200,000
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 01 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R121°/12°C · wind 12 km/h NNE, gusts 18 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R222°/14°C · wind 11 km/h ENE, gusts 18 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R321°/15°C · wind 19 km/h NW, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R422°/14°C · wind 20 km/h NNW, gusts 44 · 0.3 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, 77 (cut at 143) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ernie Els, Mark McCumber
The golfer
b. 1959-03-07, Austin, Minnesota, USA; United States; age 37 at the win (year page); 1st 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