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Sunday 26 June 1955Women’s majorsYear in Review

Berg wins Women's Western Open

Maple Bluff Country Club, Madison · Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 June 1955 · purse $5,000 · winner's share $1,000

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

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The name over time

  1. Women's Western Open

1930–1967 in our record, 38 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

69 started · cut 166

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's major

Women's Western Open

Maple Bluff Country Club, Madison

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Patty Berg

292Total
ETo par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Fay Crocker, Louise Suggs

The golfer

b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 37 at the win (year page); 12th major (card's count)

Patty Berg’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

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