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Saturday 26 August 1939AmateurYear in Review

Jameson wins U.S. Women's Amateur

Wee Burn Country Club, Darien, Connecticut · Monday 21 to Saturday 26 August 1939

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

The weather

13 h 10 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° 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. 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

Wee Burn Club, Darien

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Betty Jameson

3 & 2Final

Runner-up: Dorothy Kirby

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1919-05-09, Norman, Oklahoma, United States; United States; age 20 at the win (year page)

Betty Jameson’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