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Year in Review
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Eleven championships in our record: seven majors (four men’s, three women’s) and four amateur championships. Louise Suggs won two of them: Titleholders Championship and Women's Western Open.
1946, coloured the way magazines tinted their plates then: by hand.
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.
Men's major
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ben Hogan
b. 1914-10-07, Springfield, Missouri, USA; United States; age 31 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Portland Golf Club, Portland
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ed "Porky" Oliver
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1912-08-13, Stephenville, Texas, USA; United States; age 34 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Old Course, St Andrews, St Andrews
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Johnny Bulla, Bobby Locke
To par not yet researched.
b. 1912-05-27, Ashwood, Virginia, USA; United States; age 34 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Canterbury G.C., Cleveland
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Vic Ghezzi, Byron Nelson
b. 1914-08-01, Trenton, Texas, USA; United States; 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Augusta Country Club, Augusta
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Eileen Stulb
b. 1923-09-07, Atlanta, Georgia, United States; United States; age 22 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Spokane Country Club, Spokane
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Betty Jameson
Score, to par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 28 at the win (year page); 6th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Wakonda Club, Des Moines
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patty Berg
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1923-09-07, Atlanta, Georgia, United States; United States; age 22 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Robert Sweeny Jr.
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1920-05-08, Finaghy, Belfast, Ireland; Ireland; age 26 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower Course), Springfield
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Smiley Quick
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1913-01-10, Natick, Massachusetts, U.S.; United States; age 33 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Hunstanton, Old Hunstanton
1 of 5 researched
Winner
Jean Hetherington
Runner-up: Philomena Garvey
To par and margin not yet researched.
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Southern Hills C.C., Tulsa
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Clara Sherman
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1911-06-26, Port Arthur, Texas, United States; United States; age 35 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Eleven championships in our record: seven majors (four men’s, three women’s) and four amateur championships. Louise Suggs won two of them: Titleholders Championship and Women's Western Open.
To be written The synopsis of 1946: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written How each was won, and where the women’s game stood in 1946.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
11 tour events are laid out week by week for 1946.
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Louise Suggs won two championships in our record (Titleholders Championship and Women's Western Open).
To be written Who defined 1946: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
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.
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