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Monday 9 October 2023DP World TourYear in Review

Fitzpatrick wins Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

St Andrews Links (Old Course), St. Andrews, Scotland · Thursday 5 to Monday 9 October 2023 · purse $5,000,000 USD · Alfred Dunhill · weather: reduced to 54 holes after heavy rain wiped out play Saturday and Sunday; final round played Monday 2023-10-09

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

The weather

10 h 31 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 26° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R117°/9°C · wind 31 km/h SSW, gusts 53 · 6.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R217°/12°C · wind 38 km/h WSW, gusts 63 · 3.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R312°/10°C · wind 30 km/h E, gusts 50 · 52 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R415°/10°C · wind 27 km/h SSE, gusts 44 · 27.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R516°/14°C · wind 23 km/h WSW, gusts 35 · 1.3 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

168 started, 129 made it

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