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Sunday 22 March 1964Women’s majorsYear in Review

Mann wins Women's Western Open

Scenic Hills Country Club, Pensacola · Friday 20 to Sunday 22 March 1964 · purse $7,500 · winner's share $1,200

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

The weather

12 h 02 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R124°/13°C · wind 14 km/h SW, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R217°/7°C · wind 23 km/h NW, gusts 46 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R317°/3°C · wind 14 km/h NNW, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

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.

90 started, 32 (cut at 173) made it

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's major

Women's Western Open

Scenic Hills Country Club, Pensacola

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Carol Mann

308Total
+8To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Ruth Jessen, Judy Kimball

The golfer

b. 1941-02-03, Buffalo, New York, United States; United States; age 23 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)

Carol Mann’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet