Glasgow Open

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
Howard Clark
Location map
Haggs Castle GC
Location in Scotland
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

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