The Glasgow Open was a
European Tour
The European Tour (currently known as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons), legally the PGA European Tour is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged fift ...
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournament which was played annually at Haggs Castle Golf Club in
Glasgow
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from 1983 to 1985. The most distinguished of the three winners was future
World Number 1 Bernhard Langer
Bernhard Langer (; born 27 August 1957) is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1986, he became the sport's first official number one ra ...
of
Germany
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. In 1985 the prize fund was £90,348, which was slightly below average for a European Tour event at that time.
Winners
References
External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site
{{Former European Tour Events
Former European Tour events
Golf tournaments in Scotland
Defunct golf tournaments
International sports competitions in Glasgow
Defunct sports competitions in Scotland
Pollokshields
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1985
Recurring sporting events established in 1983
1983 establishments in Scotland
1985 disestablishments in Scotland