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Year in Review

1943 in golf

Weeks

One championship in our record: one women’s major.

1943, printed the way a newspaper of the day would print it: a halftone.

The year, week by week

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.

This week

    Every championship of 1943 in our record, in full

    The majors

    0 Men’s majors

    No men’s majors in our record for 1943.

    1 Women’s majors

    1. Women's major

      Women's Western Open

      Glen Oak Country Club, Glen Ellyn

      2 of 5 researched

      Winner

      Patty Berg

      1 upFinal

      Runner-up: Dorothy Kirby

      To par and margin not yet researched.

      The golfer

      b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 25 at the win (year page); 5th major (card's count)

      Patty Berg’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

    Year in Review

    1943 in golf: the year in review

    One championship in our record: one women’s major.

    To be written The synopsis of 1943: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.

    The women’s majors

    • Women's Western Open: Patty Berg, Glen Oak Country Club, Glen Ellyn

    To be written How each was won, and where the women’s game stood in 1943.

    Around the tours

    1 tour events are laid out week by week for 1943.

    To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.

    Players of the year

    To be written Who defined 1943: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.

    Firsts, records and farewells

    To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.

    The game in 1943

    To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.

    Questions about 1943 in golf

    Who won the 1943 Women's Western Open?
    Patty Berg won the 1943 Women's Western Open at Glen Oak Country Club, Glen Ellyn.
    How many majors were played in 1943?
    One in our record: no men’s and one women’s.

    Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.

    How this page works

    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.

    Every view has its own address: the year, the tours, the event and a traced champion are kept in the link, so you can share exactly what you see.