Golf Network News
Saturday 26 June 1948Women’s majorsYear in Review
Berg wins Women's Western Open
Skycrest Country Club, Chicago · Monday 21 to Saturday 26 June 1948 · purse $500
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 waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R126°/17°C · wind 22 km/h SE, gusts 41 · 17.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R229°/19°C · wind 27 km/h S, gusts 54 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/22°C · wind 33 km/h SSW, gusts 59 · 7.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R428°/20°C · wind 26 km/h WSW, gusts 47 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R528°/18°C · wind 16 km/h WSW, gusts 30 · 1.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R628°/19°C · wind 14 km/h SSW, gusts 27 · 9.3 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.
154 started
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
Women's Western Open
Skycrest Country Club, Chicago
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Babe Zaharias
Score, to par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 30 at the win (year page); 8th 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