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Sunday 7 September 2008European TourYear in Review

Lucquin wins Omega European Masters

Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland · Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 September 2008 · Jean-Francois Lucquin’s win no. 1 on the European Tour · purse €2,000,000 EUR · Omega

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

12 h 42 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 49° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R117°/11°C · wind 6 km/h SSE, gusts 47 · 12.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R220°/10°C · wind 9 km/h SE, gusts 50 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R320°/10°C · wind 7 km/h SSE, gusts 42 · 15.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R414°/7°C · wind 7 km/h NW, gusts 32 · 3.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.

The ones it got away from

  • Rory McIlroy NIR · 271

156 started, 74 made it

Same week

DP World Tour event

Omega European Masters

Crans-sur-Sierre, Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Jean-Francois Lucquin

271Total
−13To par
playoffMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Jean-Francois Lucquin68 · 67 · 69 · 67271−13
2Rory McIlroy63 · 71 · 66 · 71271−13
T3Miguel Angel Jimenez68 · 69 · 68 · 67272
T3Christian Cevaer68 · 71 · 65 · 68272
T3Gary Orr67 · 71 · 67 · 67272
T3Julien Clement69 · 68 · 67 · 68272
T7Juan Abbate68 · 67 · 69 · 69273
T7Rafael Echenique69 · 70 · 66 · 68273
T7Robert Dinwiddie76 · 64 · 64 · 69273
T7Ross McGowan67 · 73 · 66 · 67273
The golfer

born 1978-12-25, Valence, Drôme, France; FRA; turned pro 1997; age 29 that week; tour wins to date: 1; majors to date: 0; world No. 460 that week (OWGR rankBefore (player profile, week 36 2008); The Guardian: 'ranked 460th in the world at the start of the week').

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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