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Sunday 4 July 1965Women’s majorsYear in Review

Mann wins U.S. Women's Open

Atlantic City Country Club, Atlantic City, New Jersey · Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 July 1965 · purse $17,780 · winner's share $3,800

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 42 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 74° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R127°/17°C · wind 20 km/h NNE, gusts 44 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R226°/14°C · wind 19 km/h S, gusts 41 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R327°/20°C · wind 26 km/h SSW, gusts 53 · 3.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R430°/19°C · wind 15 km/h SE, gusts 38 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. U.S. Women's Open

1946–2026 in our record, 81 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

82 started, 41 (cut at 159) made it

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's major

U.S. Women's Open

Atlantic City Country Club, Northfield

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Carol Mann

290Total
+2To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Kathy Cornelius

The golfer

b. 1941-02-03, Buffalo, New York, United States; United States; age 24 at the win (year page); 2nd 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