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Sunday 20 August 2000Women’s tour eventsYear in Review
Gustafson wins Weetabix Women's British Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England · Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 August 2000 · purse £730,000 · winner's share £120,000 (US$1,250,000)
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 11 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 48° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/14°C · wind 21 km/h WSW, gusts 38 · 1.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R217°/13°C · wind 17 km/h WSW, gusts 29 · 1.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/13°C · wind 22 km/h WNW, gusts 41 · 3.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R416°/11°C · wind 12 km/h WNW, gusts 21 · 1.4 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.
· cut 150
Same week
Women's tour event
Weetabix Women's British Open
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Becky Iverson, Meg Mallon, Liselotte Neumann, Kirsty Taylor
The golfer
b. 1973-12-27, Varberg, Sweden; Sweden; age 26 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