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Saturday 25 August 1951AmateurYear in Review
Kirby wins U.S. Women's Amateur
Town & Country Club, St. Paul, Minnesota · Monday 20 to Saturday 25 August 1951
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 24 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R123°/15°C · wind 23 km/h WSW, gusts 46 · 0.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R221°/13°C · wind 22 km/h NW, gusts 43 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R323°/11°C · wind 8 km/h ESE, gusts 16 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R425°/12°C · wind 22 km/h SSE, gusts 46 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R523°/17°C · wind 22 km/h SSE, gusts 46 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R622°/17°C · wind 26 km/h SSE, gusts 52 · 11.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Women's Amateur
1895–2026 in our record, 126 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
U.S. Women's Amateur
Town & C.C., St. Paul
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Claire Doran
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1920, West Point, Georgia, United States; United States; age 31 at the win (year page)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet