Greater Manchester Open

Greater Manchester Open

Tournament information
Location	Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
Established	1975
Course(s)	Wilmslow Golf Club
Par	70
Tour(s)	European Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	£40,000
Month played	June
Final year	1981
Tournament record score
Aggregate	264 Bernard Gallacher (1981)
To par	−16 as above
Final champion
Bernard Gallacher
Location map
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The Greater Manchester Open was a professional golf tournament which was played annually from 1975 to 1981. It was a European Tour event from 1976. It was held at Wilmslow Golf Club in Wilmslow, Cheshire, just to the south of Manchester. Three of the six winners were from Ireland, and a fourth, Mark McNulty, became an Irish citizen many years later. In 1981 the prize fund was £40,000, which was the third smallest on the European Tour that season.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share (£)	Ref.
Cold Shield Greater Manchester Open
1982	Cancelled due to lack of funding						[1]
1981	Bernard Gallacher	264	−16	5 strokes	Nick Faldo	7,000	[2]
1980	Des Smyth	273	−7	Playoff [a]	Brian Waites	5,830	[3]
Greater Manchester Open
1979	Mark McNulty	267	−13	5 strokes	Manuel Piñero	5,000	[4]
1978	Brian Barnes	275	−5	Playoff [b]	Bob Charles Denis Durnian Nick Job	4,000	[5]
1977	Eamonn Darcy	269	−11	8 strokes	Brian Barnes Ken Brown John Morgan	4,000	[6]
1976	John O'Leary	276	−4	4 strokes	John Fourie	2,200	[7]
1975	Howard Clark	284				1,000	[8]

Notes

1. Smyth won with birdie on sixth extra hole.
2. Barnes won with birdie on first extra hole.

References

1. Hennessy, John (22 April 1982). "Tournament cancelled" . The Times. London, England. p. 22. Retrieved 9 June 2020– via The Times Digital Archive.
2. "Gallacher bounces in with a record victory". The Glasgow Herald. 15 June 1981. p. 16.
3. "Smyth wins play-off duel". The Glasgow Herald. 23 June 1980. p. 17.
4. "McNulty's triumph with record aggregate". The Glasgow Herald. 25 June 1979. p. 16.
5. "Barnes wins play-off with 20-foot putt". The Glasgow Herald. 19 June 1978. p. 17.
6. "Darcy by 8 shots". The Glasgow Herald. 20 June 1977. p. 17.
7. "O'Leary by 4 shots". The Glasgow Herald. 21 June 1976. p. 22.
8. "Howard Clark, the former Walker Cup player..." The Glasgow Herald. 30 June 1975. p. 22.

External links

• Coverage on the European Tour's official site