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Year in Review
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Ten championships in our record: six majors (four men’s, two women’s) and four amateur championships. Patty Berg won two of them: Titleholders Championship and U.S. Women's Amateur.
1938, printed the way a newspaper of the day would print it: a halftone.
Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.
Men's major
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Harry Cooper, Ralph Guldahl
b. 1906-11-28, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; United States; age 31 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Shawnee Country Club, Smithfield Township
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Sam Snead
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1908-07-12, Hot Springs, Arkansas; United States; age 30 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jimmy Adams
To par not yet researched.
b. 1898-04-10, Burnham-on-Sea, England; England; age 40 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Cherry Hills C.C., Englewood
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Dick Metz
b. 1911-11-22, Dallas, Texas, USA; United States; 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Augusta Country Club, Augusta
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jane Cothran
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 19 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Broadmoor Golf Club, Colorado Springs
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Helen Hofmann
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1916, Chicago, Illinois, United States; United States; age 21 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Troon Golf Club (Old Course; now Royal Troon), Troon
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Cecil Ewing
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1913-09-09, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.; United States; age 24 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Oakmont Country Club, Oakmont
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Pat Abbott
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1914-01-20, Elmsford, New York, U.S.; United States; age 24 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Burnham & Berrow Golf Club, Burnham-on-Sea
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Elsie Corlett
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1907-03-14, Partick, Scotland; Scotland; age 31 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Westmoreland C.C., Wilmette
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Estelle Lawson Page
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 20 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Ten championships in our record: six majors (four men’s, two women’s) and four amateur championships. Patty Berg won two of them: Titleholders Championship and U.S. Women's Amateur.
To be written The synopsis of 1938: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written How each was won, and where the women’s game stood in 1938.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
10 tour events are laid out week by week for 1938.
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Patty Berg won two championships in our record (Titleholders Championship and U.S. Women's Amateur).
To be written Who defined 1938: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.
The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.
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