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Saturday 6 October 1934AmateurYear in Review

Wie wins U.S. Women's Amateur

Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania · Monday 1 to Saturday 6 October 1934

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

11 h 18 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 44° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

  1. U.S. Women's Amateur

1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's amateur championship

U.S. Women's Amateur

Whitemarsh Valley C.C., Chestnut Hill

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Virginia Van Wie

2 & 1Final

Runner-up: Dorothy Traung

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1909-02-09, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.; United States; age 25 at the win (year page)

Virginia Van Wie’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet