Glasgow Open

Glasgow Open
Tournament information
Location Scotland
Established 1983
Course(s) Haggs Castle Golf Club
Par 70
Tour(s) European Tour
Format Stroke play
Final year 1985
Tournament record score
Aggregate 266 Ken Brown (1984)
To par −14 (as above)
Final champion
England Howard Clark

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

YearWinnerCountryScoreMargin
of victory
Runner-upWinner's
share (£)
Ref
Glasgow Open
1985Howard Clark England274 (−6)PlayoffScotland Sandy Lyle15,000[1]
1984Ken Brown Scotland266 (−14)11 strokesScotland Sam Torrance13,330[2]
Glasgow Golf Classic
1983Bernhard Langer West Germany274 (−6)1 strokeArgentina Vicente Fernández13,330[3]

In 1985 Clark beat Lyle at the second extra hole with a birdie 3.

References

  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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