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Sunday 5 August 2001LPGA TourYear in Review
Pak wins Weetabix Women's British Open
Sunningdale Golf Club, Sunningdale, England · Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 August 2001 · Se Ri Pak’s win no. 12 on the LPGA Tour · purse £1,000,000 · winner's share £155,000 (US$1,500,000) · Weetabix · First round suspended for darkness on Thursday after torrential rain; completed Friday morning (Golftoday rounds 1-2 reports)
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 58 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/14°C · wind 15 km/h ENE, gusts 32 · 5.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R221°/14°C · wind 21 km/h WSW, gusts 44 · 1.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R319°/12°C · wind 20 km/h WSW, gusts 49 · 5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R422°/12°C · wind 18 km/h WSW, gusts 39 · 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
- Mi Hyun Kim KOR · 279Closed with 71: two early birdies, then a double bogey at the sixth after a tee shot into the left rough and a bogey (three-putt) at the eighth; birdies at 10 and 14 left her two behind Pak wins with closing 66 - Golftoday, Weetabix Women's British Open 2001 round 4 report (Wayback copy)
144 started · cut +2, 70 made it
Same week
Women's major
Weetabix Women's British Open
Sunningdale Golf Club (Old Course), Sunningdale
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Mi Hyun Kim
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
5 August 2001
Anyway, I'm here for the win. So nothing to lose. I'm not going to be in second place and unhappy about it.
BBC Sport
5 August 2001
My mother's crying. She makes me cry too
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
5 August 2001
I like second place, but I make mistake number six. I lost the tee shot.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Se Ri Pak | 71 · 70 · 70 · 66 | 277 | −11 |
| 2 | Mi Hyun Kim | 72 · 65 · 71 · 71 | 279 | −9 |
| T3 | Laura Diaz | 74 · 70 · 69 · 67 | 280 | −8 |
| T3 | Catriona Matthew | 70 · 65 · 72 · 73 | 280 | −8 |
| T3 | Janice Moodie | 67 · 70 · 71 · 72 | 280 | −8 |
| T3 | Iben Tinning | 71 · 69 · 72 · 68 | 280 | −8 |
| T7 | Kristal Parker | 72 · 71 · 71 · 67 | 281 | −7 |
| T7 | Marina Arruti | 71 · 73 · 70 · 67 | 281 | −7 |
| T7 | Kathryn Marshall | 75 · 71 · 68 · 67 | 281 | −7 |
| T7 | Kelli Kuehne | 71 · 70 · 71 · 69 | 281 | −7 |
| T7 | Kasumi Fujii | 71 · 71 · 69 · 70 | 281 | −7 |
The golfer
born 1977-09-28, Yusong, Taejon, South Korea; KOR; turned pro 1996; age 23 that week; tour wins to date: 12; majors to date: 3.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet