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Saturday 19 June 1937Women’s majorsYear in Review

Hicks wins Women's Western Open

Beverly Country Club, Chicago · Monday 14 to Saturday 19 June 1937

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

The weather

15 h 02 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 72° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R1Not yet researched
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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

Beverly Country Club, Chicago

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Helen Hicks

6 & 5Final

Runner-up: Bea Barrett

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1911, Cedarhurst, New York, United States; United States; age 26 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)

Helen Hicks’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