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Thursday 3 June 1948AmateurYear in Review

Suggs wins the Women's Amateur

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

16 h 34 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

  1. The Women's Amateur

1893–2026 in our record, 123 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 amateur championship

The Women's Amateur

Royal Lytham & St Annes, Lytham St Annes

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Louise Suggs

1 up (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Jean Donald

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1923-09-07, Atlanta, Georgia, United States; United States; age 24 at the win (year page)

Louise Suggs’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