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Sunday 16 August 1959Women’s majorsYear in Review
Rawls wins Women's Western Open
Rainier Golf & Country Club, Seattle · Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 August 1959 · purse $8,000 · winner's share $1,400
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 02 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R121°/10°C · wind 14 km/h N, gusts 25 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R222°/12°C · wind 15 km/h N, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R321°/14°C · wind 9 km/h NNE, gusts 14 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/14°C · wind 10 km/h SSE, gusts 31 · 8.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- 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.
100 started, 32 (cut at 163) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
Women's Western Open
Rainier Golf & Country Club, Seattle
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patty Berg, JoAnne Carner
The golfer
b. 1928-05-04, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States; United States; age 31 at the win (year page); 6th 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