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Sunday 13 June 1965Women’s majorsYear in Review

Berning wins Women's Western Open

Beverly Country Club, Chicago · Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 June 1965 · purse $10,000 · winner's share $1,500

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 60 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R124°/16°C · wind 18 km/h NNE, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R224°/16°C · wind 15 km/h ENE, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R325°/12°C · wind 27 km/h NNE, gusts 45 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R418°/11°C · wind 25 km/h NNE, gusts 42 · 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.

94 started · cut 166

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's major

Women's Western Open

Beverly Country Club, Chicago

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Susie Maxwell Berning

290Total
−2To par
3 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Marlene Bauer Hagge

The golfer

b. 1941-07-22, Pasadena, California, United States; United States; age 23 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)

Susie Maxwell Berning’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