Golf Network News
Sunday 30 June 1940Women’s majorsYear in Review
Zaharias wins Women's Western Open
Blue Mound Golf & Country Club, Wauwatosa · Tuesday 25 to Sunday 30 June 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
15 h 08 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R120°/12°C · wind 30 km/h WNW, gusts 53 · 5.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R218°/12°C · wind 20 km/h WNW, gusts 37 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R322°/12°C · wind 16 km/h S, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R424°/15°C · wind 36 km/h W, gusts 64 · 21.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R520°/14°C · wind 35 km/h WNW, gusts 60 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R624°/14°C · wind 20 km/h WNW, gusts 34 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- 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
Blue Mound Golf & Country Club, Wauwatosa
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Lucile Robinson Mann
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1911-06-26, Port Arthur, Texas, United States; United States; age 29 at the win (year page); 1st 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