Golf Network News
Saturday 23 June 1945Women’s majorsYear in Review
Zaharias wins Women's Western Open
Highland Golf & Country Club, Indianapolis · Monday 18 to Saturday 23 June 1945
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
14 h 50 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 74° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R122°/14°C · wind 15 km/h NNW, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R224°/13°C · wind 9 km/h S, gusts 21 · 3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R326°/15°C · wind 17 km/h SSW, gusts 36 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R424°/16°C · wind 13 km/h NW, gusts 28 · 3.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R525°/13°C · wind 8 km/h NE, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R627°/15°C · wind 7 km/h NE, gusts 17 · 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
Highland Golf & Country Club, Indianapolis
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 33 at the win (year page); 3rd 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