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Saturday 13 June 1936Women’s majorsYear in Review

Hill wins Women's Western Open

Topeka Country Club, Topeka · Monday 8 to Saturday 13 June 1936

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

The weather

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  1. R1Not yet researched
  2. R2Not yet researched
  3. R3Not yet researched
  4. R4Not yet researched

The name over time

  1. Women's Western Open

1930–1967 in our record, 38 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 major

Women's Western Open

Topeka Country Club, Topeka

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Opal Hill (an amateur)

3 & 2Final

Runner-up: Virginia Wilson Dennehy

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1892, Newport, Nebraska, United States; United States; age 44 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)

Opal Hill (an amateur)’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

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