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Sunday 13 September 2020European TourYear in Review
Coetzee wins Portugal Masters
Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course, Vilamoura, Portugal · Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 September 2020 · George Coetzee’s win no. 5 on the European Tour · purse €1,000,000 EUR · Rescheduled due to COVID-19; originally scheduled to end 25 October 2020 (Wikipedia season table).
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 16 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R133°/20°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R232°/20°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 34 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R332°/20°C · wind 22 km/h ESE, gusts 48 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R428°/22°C · wind 30 km/h SE, gusts 56 · 0 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
- Laurie Canter ENG · 270also shot 66 but finished two shots back South African George Coetzee wins Portugal Masters – ESPN (Associated Press)
132 started · cut -1, 70 made it
Same week
DP World Tour event
Portugal Masters
Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course, Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course, Vilamoura, Portugal
4 of 5 researched
Winner
George Coetzee
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
RTÉ Sport
13 September 2020
I'm ecstatic, it's the work me, my psychologist and my coach have been doing. It's nice to see it pay off,
RTÉ Sport
13 September 2020
I think I hide it (nerves) pretty well,
Sky Sports
13 September 2020
I was actually doing keepy-uppies with a football to see how many I could do to test my mental skills because we weren't allowed to do much else.
Sky Sports
13 September 2020
That was the next step for me really.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Coetzee | 66 · 70 · 66 · 66 | 268 | −16 |
| 2 | Laurie Canter | 64 · 72 · 68 · 66 | 270 | −14 |
| T3 | Tommy Fleetwood | 68 · 71 · 68 · 64 | 271 | −13 |
| T3 | Joakim Lagergren | 69 · 69 · 68 · 65 | 271 | −13 |
| 5 | Masahiro Kawamura | 67 · 71 · 65 · 70 | 273 | −11 |
| T6 | Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez | 70 · 68 · 67 · 69 | 274 | −10 |
| T6 | Niklas Lemke | 70 · 69 · 65 · 70 | 274 | −10 |
| T8 | Jorge Campillo | 68 · 71 · 70 · 66 | 275 | −9 |
| T8 | John Catlin | 72 · 69 · 65 · 69 | 275 | −9 |
| T8 | Julien Guerrier | 62 · 66 · 75 · 72 | 275 | −9 |
| T8 | Jason Scrivener | 69 · 68 · 70 · 68 | 275 | −9 |
| T8 | Johannes Veerman | 69 · 68 · 70 · 68 | 275 | −9 |
| T8 | Scott Vincent | 70 · 65 · 72 · 68 | 275 | −9 |
The golfer
born 1986-07-18, Pretoria, South Africa; RSA; turned pro 2007; age 34 that week; tour wins to date: 5; majors to date: 0; world No. 147 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by owgr.com player profile).
What’s in the bag
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