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Saturday 24 June 1944Women’s majorsYear in Review
Zaharias wins Women's Western Open
Park Ridge Country Club, Chicago · Monday 19 to Saturday 24 June 1944
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 crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R122°/16°C · wind 29 km/h WNW, gusts 50 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R222°/14°C · wind 21 km/h N, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R323°/14°C · wind 22 km/h SSW, gusts 41 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R429°/20°C · wind 24 km/h SSW, gusts 39 · 11.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R528°/18°C · wind 28 km/h WNW, gusts 49 · 18.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R626°/18°C · wind 17 km/h NNW, gusts 30 · 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
Park Ridge Country Club, Chicago
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Dorothy Germain Porter
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1911-06-26, Port Arthur, Texas, United States; United States; age 32 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