Golf Network News
Sunday 20 March 1949Women’s majorsYear in Review
Bell wins Titleholders Championship
Augusta Country Club, Augusta · Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 March 1949
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
11 h 56 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R120°/4°C · wind 16 km/h SW, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R218°/7°C · wind 29 km/h WSW, gusts 77 · 8.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R313°/1°C · wind 16 km/h NE, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R417°/2°C · wind 13 km/h E, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Titleholders Championship
1937–1972 in our record, 28 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
Titleholders Championship
Augusta Country Club, Augusta
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patty Berg, Dorothy Kirby
The golfer
b. 1921, Findlay, Ohio, United States; United States; age 27 at the win (year page); 1st 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