Glasgow Open

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Glasgow Open
Tournament information
LocationGlasgow, Scotland
Established1983
Course(s)Haggs Castle Golf Club
Par70
Tour(s)European Tour
FormatStroke play
Prize fund£90,000
Month playedAugust
Final year1985
Tournament record score
Aggregate266 Ken Brown (1984)
To par−14 as above
Final champion
England Howard Clark
Location map
Haggs Castle GC is located in Scotland
Haggs Castle GC
Haggs Castle GC
Location in Scotland
Haggs Castle GC is located in Glasgow council area
Haggs Castle GC
Haggs Castle GC
Location in Glasgow

The Glasgow Open was a European Tour golf tournament which was played annually at Haggs Castle Golf Club in Glasgow from 1983 to 1985. The most distinguished of the three winners was future World Number 1 Bernhard Langer of Germany. In 1985 the prize fund was £90,348, which was slightly below average for a European Tour event at that time.

Winners[edit]

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner-up Winner's
share (£)
Ref.
Glasgow Open
1985 England Howard Clark 274 −6 Playoff Scotland Sandy Lyle 15,000 [1]
1984 Scotland Ken Brown 266 −14 11 strokes Scotland Sam Torrance 13,330 [2]
Glasgow Golf Classic
1983 West Germany Bernhard Langer 274 −6 1 stroke Argentina Vicente Fernández 13,330 [3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Clark chips in for victory and his Ryder Cup place". The Glasgow Herald. 12 August 1985. p. 16.
  2. ^ "Torrance and Lyle tidy up after Brown's clean sweep". The Glasgow Herald. 2 July 1984. p. 16.
  3. ^ "Patient Langer holds off Fernandez's last challenge". The Glasgow Herald. 27 June 1983. p. 16.

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