Golf Network News
Saturday 27 June 1942Women’s majorsYear in Review
Jameson wins Women's Western Open
Elmhurst Country Club, Chicago · Monday 22 to Saturday 27 June 1942
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 01 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).
- R124°/15°C · wind 24 km/h WNW, gusts 42 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R217°/13°C · wind 27 km/h WNW, gusts 41 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R320°/13°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R422°/15°C · wind 17 km/h ESE, gusts 34 · 1.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R522°/16°C · wind 18 km/h ESE, gusts 34 · 4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R626°/18°C · wind 14 km/h SE, gusts 27 · 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
Elmhurst Country Club, Chicago
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Phyllis Otto
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1919-05-09, Norman, Oklahoma, United States; United States; age 23 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