Golf Network News
Sunday 24 June 1956Women’s majorsYear in Review
Hagge wins LPGA Championship
Forest Lake Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan · Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 June 1956 · purse $6,500 · winner's share $1,350
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 07 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R130°/20°C · wind 13 km/h WSW, gusts 31 · 2.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R230°/18°C · wind 13 km/h WSW, gusts 26 · 1.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R330°/21°C · wind 16 km/h W, gusts 35 · 3.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R429°/19°C · wind 29 km/h WSW, gusts 60 · 2.6 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
Forest Lake Country Club, Detroit
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patty Berg
The golfer
b. 1934, Eureka, South Dakota, United States; United States; age 22 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