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Saturday 30 September 1950Women’s majorsYear in Review
Zaharias wins U.S. Women's Open
Rolling Hills Country Club, Wichita, Kansas · Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 September 1950 · purse $5,000 · winner's share $1,250
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 36 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 48° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R123°/15°C · wind 25 km/h SSE, gusts 49 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R223°/17°C · wind 28 km/h SE, gusts 50 · 26 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R327°/18°C · wind 32 km/h S, gusts 54 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R426°/19°C · wind 30 km/h S, gusts 56 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Women's Open
1946–2026 in our record, 81 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
U.S. Women's Open
Rolling Hills Country Club, Wichita
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Betsy Rawls (a)
The golfer
b. 1911-06-26, Port Arthur, Texas, United States; United States; age 39 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