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Year in Review
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Twelve championships in our record: eight majors (four men’s, four women’s) and four amateur championships. Mickey Wright won two of them: LPGA Championship and U.S. Women's Open.
1958, 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: Doug Ford, Fred Hawkins
b. 1929-09-10, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA; United States; age 28 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Llanerch Country Club, Havertown
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Billy Casper
b. 1929-09-06, Athens, Ohio; United States; age 28 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Dave Thomas
To par not yet researched.
b. 1929-08-23, Brunswick (Melbourne), Australia; Australia; age 28 at the win (year page); 4th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Southern Hills C.C., Tulsa
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Gary Player
b. 1916-03-31, Haworth, Oklahoma, 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: Fay Crocker
b. 1935-02-14, San Diego, California, United States; United States; age 23 at the win (year page); 1st 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: Betty Dodd
b. 1924, Fargo, North Dakota, United States; United States; age 33 at the win (year page); 3rd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Forest Lake Country Club, Bloomfield Hills
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Louise Suggs
b. 1935-02-14, San Diego, California, United States; United States; age 23 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Kahkwa Club, Erie
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Beverly Hanson
b. 1918-02-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; United States; age 40 at the win (year page); 15th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
St Andrews Links (Old Course), St Andrews
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Alan Thirlwell
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1922-02-22, Inchicore, Ireland; Ireland; age 36 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
The Olympic Club (Lake Course), San Francisco
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Tommy Aaron
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1923-10-26, Ardmore, Oklahoma, U.S.; United States; age 34 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Hunstanton, Old Hunstanton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Elizabeth Price
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1915-03-18, Perth; Scotland; age 43 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Wee Burn C.C., Darien
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Barbara Romack
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1937-08-31, Everett, Washington, U.S.; United States; age 20 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Twelve championships in our record: eight majors (four men’s, four women’s) and four amateur championships. Mickey Wright won two of them: LPGA Championship and U.S. Women's Open.
To be written The synopsis of 1958: 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 1958.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
12 tour events are laid out week by week for 1958.
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Mickey Wright won two championships in our record (LPGA Championship and U.S. Women's Open).
To be written Who defined 1958: 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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