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Saturday 27 August 1955AmateurYear in Review
Lesser wins U.S. Women's Amateur
Myers Park Country Club, Charlotte, North Carolina · Monday 22 to Saturday 27 August 1955
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 55 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 64° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R133°/22°C · wind 11 km/h SW, gusts 27 · 4.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R229°/22°C · wind 10 km/h NNE, gusts 23 · 8.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/21°C · wind 20 km/h NE, gusts 38 · 2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R428°/20°C · wind 14 km/h NE, gusts 32 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R529°/19°C · wind 11 km/h NNE, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R632°/18°C · wind 7 km/h SW, gusts 18 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre 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
Myers Park C.C., Charlotte
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jane Nelson
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1933-08-13, Fort Totten; United States; age 22 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