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Sunday 5 August 2001Women’s majorsYear in Review
Pak wins Weetabix Women's British Open
Sunningdale Golf Club, Sunningdale, England · Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 August 2001 · purse £1,000,000 · winner's share £155,000 (US$1,500,000)
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 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
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
144 started, 70 (cut at 146) made it
Same week
Women's major
Weetabix Women's British Open
Sunningdale Golf Club (Old Course), Sunningdale
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Mi Hyun Kim
The golfer
b. 1977-09-28, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; Republic of Korea; age 23 at the win (year page); 3rd 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