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Sunday 15 August 1999Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
Steinhauer wins Weetabix Women's British Open
Woburn Golf Club, Little Brickhill, England · Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 August 1999 · purse £100,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
14 h 26 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 52° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R119°/13°C · wind 13 km/h SSW, gusts 25 · 1.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R220°/14°C · wind 21 km/h SSW, gusts 38 · 2.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R319°/12°C · wind 21 km/h WSW, gusts 43 · 3.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/10°C · wind 21 km/h W, gusts 44 · 0 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.
Same week
Women's tour event
Weetabix Women's British Open
Woburn Golf & Country Club (Duke's Course), Little Brickhill (near Milton Keynes)
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Annika Sörenstam
The golfer
b. 1962, Madison, Wisconsin, United States; United States; age 36 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