Golf Network News
Friday 19 January 1940Women’s majorsYear in Review
Hicks wins Titleholders Championship
Augusta Country Club, Augusta · Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 January 1940
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
10 h 05 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 36° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R110°/-2°C · wind 14 km/h W, gusts 27 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R211°/0°C · wind 18 km/h WSW, gusts 39 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R312°/1°C · wind 14 km/h SW, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R45°/-2°C · wind 19 km/h WNW, gusts 40 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Titleholders Championship
1937–1972 in our record, 28 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
Titleholders Championship
Augusta Country Club, Augusta
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Helen Dettweiler
The golfer
b. 1911, Cedarhurst, New York, United States; United States; age 28 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet