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Year in Review
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Thirteen championships in our record: eight majors (four men’s, four women’s), four amateur championships and one team cup. Patty Berg won two of them: Titleholders Championship and Women's Western Open.
1955, coloured the way magazines tinted their plates then: by hand.
Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.
Men's major
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ben Hogan
b. 1921-01-06, Halls, Tennessee, USA; United States; age 34 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Meadowbrook Country Club, Northville Township
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Cary Middlecoff
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1922-08-06, West Haven, Connecticut, USA; United States; age 32 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Old Course, St Andrews, St Andrews
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: John Fallon
To par not yet researched.
b. 1929-08-23, Brunswick (Melbourne), Australia; Australia; age 25 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Olympic Club, San Francisco
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ben Hogan
b. 1921-11-07, Bettendorf, Iowa, USA; USA; 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Orchard Ridge Country Club, Fort Wayne
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Louise Suggs
Score, to par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1924, Fargo, North Dakota, United States; United States; age 30 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Augusta Country Club, Augusta
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Mary Lena Faulk
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 37 at the win (year page); 11th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Wichita Country Club, Wichita
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Louise Suggs, Mary Lena Faulk
b. 1914-08-02, Montevideo, Uruguay; Uruguay; age 40 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Maple Bluff Country Club, Madison
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Fay Crocker, Louise Suggs
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 37 at the win (year page); 12th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Alan Slater
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1930-03-14, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.; United States; age 25 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Country Club of Virginia (James River Course), Richmond
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Bill Hyndman
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1925-12-08, Tarboro, North Carolina, U.S.; United States; age 29 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Royal Portrush, Portrush
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Barbara Romack
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1915-03-18, Perth; Scotland; age 40 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Myers Park C.C., Charlotte
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jane Nelson
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1933-08-13, Fort Totten; United States; age 22 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Our team-cup record so far: Ryder Cup.
Team cup
Thunderbird Ranch & Country Club, Thunderbird
1 of 5 researched
Winner
USA
Runner-up: Great Britain
To par not yet researched.
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Thirteen championships in our record: eight majors (four men’s, four women’s), four amateur championships and one team cup. Patty Berg won two of them: Titleholders Championship and Women's Western Open.
To be written The synopsis of 1955: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written How each was won, and where the women’s game stood in 1955.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
To be written The match: the captains, the score, the deciding points.
13 tour events are laid out week by week for 1955.
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Patty Berg won two championships in our record (Titleholders Championship and Women's Western Open).
To be written Who defined 1955: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.
The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.
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