1964 U.S. Women's Open: Mickey Wright wins at San Diego Country Club
Mickey Wright won the 1964 U.S. Women's Open at San Diego Country Club, Chula Vista, California, United States with 290 (−2), beating Ruth Jessen in a playoff.
Updated October 23, 2026
Every year is on the U.S. Women's Open winners list.
- Dates
- July 9, 1964 to July 12, 1964
- Course
- San Diego Country Club, Chula Vista, California, United States
- Edition
- 19th edition
- Counted as a major
- yes
- Format
- stroke play, 4 rounds
- Par
- 73 · 6,376 yards
- Entries
- 57
- Field
- 58
- Made the cut
- 44
- Purse
- $9,900 · winner's share $2,090
- Champion
- Mickey Wright · age 29 · United States · born San Diego, California, United States
- Champion's title
- 4th title at this event · 12th major
- Winning score
- 71-71-75-73 = 290 (−2)
- Runner-up
- Ruth Jessen (290)
- 54-hole leader
- Mickey Wright, Marilynn Smith, Shirley Englehorn
- Playoff
- 18-hole stroke-play playoff (Sunday July 12): Wright 70, Jessen 72; 18 holes; beat Ruth Jessen; 18-hole total (Wright 70, Jessen 72)
- Low amateur
- Barbara McIntire (304)
- Run by
- United States Golf Association
Winner and runner-up
| Pos. | Player | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mickey Wright | 71 | 71 | 75 | 73 | 290 | −2 |
| 2 | Ruth Jessen | 72 | 73 | 74 | 71 | 290 | −2 |
What happened at the 1964 U.S. Women's Open
On the 72nd hole Ruth Jessen hit a fairway wood to about three feet for birdie while Mickey Wright got up and down from a greenside bunker to force a playoff.
Wright, who grew up in San Diego, won the 18-hole Sunday playoff 70 to 72 for her fourth title, tying Betsy Rawls's record.
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's U.S. Women's Open data. A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the organizer's own record is used.
Data: womens-golf-majors_dataset_2026-10-20.json (GNN's women's majors research set, "master" row for this year, research dated October 20, 2026).
Also from GNN's U.S. Women's Open set (entries, runners-up round by round, values the majors set does not hold).
Sources
- usga.org: 26USWomensOpen
- Wikipedia: 1964 U.S. Women's Open
- Wikipedia: U.S. Women's Open
- Wikipedia: Mickey Wright
- golfcompendium.com: 1964 us womens open
- usga.org: u s women s open results 1946 to present
- golfcompendium.com: low amateurs us womens open
- where2golf.com: mickey wright
- thegolfnewsnet.com: us womens open history results and past winners 126262
- Wikipedia: 1964 LPGA Tour
- news.google.com: newspapers
- news.google.com: newspapers