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Sunday 17 August 1997Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
Webb wins Weetabix Women's British Open
Sunningdale Golf Club, Sunningdale, England · Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 August 1997 · purse £82,500
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 16 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 52° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R124°/15°C · wind 11 km/h W, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/14°C · wind 8 km/h SW, gusts 18 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/14°C · wind 9 km/h SSE, gusts 27 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R426°/17°C · wind 9 km/h SSE, gusts 26 · 2.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Ladies' British Open
- AIG Women's Open
- Women's British Open
- Pretty Polly Women's British Open
- Hitachi Ladies British Open
- Burberry Women's British Open
- Weetabix Women's British Open
- Ricoh Women's British Open
- AIG Women's British Open
1976–2026 in our record, 50 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
, 70 (cut at 148) made it
Same week
Women's tour event
Weetabix Women's British Open
Sunningdale Golf Club (Old Course), Sunningdale
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Rosie Jones
The golfer
b. 1974-12-21, Ayr, Queensland, Australia; Australia; age 22 at the win (year page)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet