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Sunday 17 July 1955Women’s majorsYear in Review
Hanson wins LPGA Championship
Orchard Ridge Country Club, Fort Wayne, Indiana · Friday 15 to Sunday 17 July 1955 · purse $6,000 · winner's share $1,200
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
14 h 38 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R128°/21°C · wind 16 km/h SW, gusts 35 · 44.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R228°/20°C · wind 17 km/h SW, gusts 41 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R329°/20°C · wind 7 km/h W, gusts 29 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- LPGA Championship
- Eve-LPGA Championship
- Mazda LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by AIG
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola
- LPGA Championship presented by Wegmans
- Wegmans LPGA Championship
- KPMG Women's PGA Championship
1955–2026 in our record, 72 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
LPGA Championship
Orchard Ridge Country Club, Fort Wayne
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Louise Suggs
Score, to par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1924, Fargo, North Dakota, United States; United States; age 30 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