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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.
1957, 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: Sam Snead
b. 1922-08-06, West Haven, Connecticut, 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
Miami Valley Golf Club, Dayton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Dow Finsterwald
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1928-01-20, Lafayette, Louisiana; United States; age 29 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: Peter Thomson
To par not yet researched.
b. 1917-11-20, Germiston, South Africa; South Africa; age 39 at the win (year page); 4th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Inverness Club, Toledo
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Cary Middlecoff
b. 1924-08-28, Stamford, Connecticut, USA; United States; 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Churchill Valley Country Club, Pittsburgh
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Wiffi Smith
b. 1923-09-07, Atlanta, Georgia, United States; United States; age 33 at the win (year page); 10th 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: Anne Quast
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 39 at the win (year page); 13th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Winged Foot Golf Club (East Course), Mamaroneck
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patty Berg
b. 1928-05-04, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States; United States; age 29 at the win (year page); 4th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Montgomery Country Club, Montgomery
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Wiffi Smith
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 39 at the win (year page); 14th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Formby Golf Club, Formby
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Harold Ridgley
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1924-01-17, Cumbernauld, Scotland; Scotland; age 33 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
The Country Club (Anniversary Course), Brookline
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Bud Taylor
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1932-04-22, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.; United States; age 25 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Gleneagles, Auchterarder
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jessie Valentine
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1926-04-26; Ireland
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Del Paso C.C., Sacramento
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ann Casey Johnstone
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1939-04-04, Kirkland, Washington, United States; United States; age 18 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
Lindrick Golf Club, Lindrick
1 of 5 researched
Winner
GB
Runner-up: USA
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 1957: 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 1957.
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 1957.
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 1957: 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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