Golf Network News
Sunday 19 July 1998Men’s majorsYear in Review
O'Meara wins the Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England · Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 July 1998 · purse £1,800,000 · winner's share £300,000
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 09 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R116°/12°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 24 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/13°C · wind 33 km/h WSW, gusts 53 · 5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R317°/13°C · wind 39 km/h W, gusts 62 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/14°C · wind 24 km/h SSE, gusts 46 · 5.9 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 146) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Brian Watts
The golfer
b. 1957-01-13, Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA; United States; age 41 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