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Monday 24 June 1968Women’s majorsYear in Review
Post wins LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton, Massachusetts · Thursday 20 to Monday 24 June 1968 · purse $20,000 · winner's share $3,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 04 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R119°/13°C · wind 22 km/h WNW, gusts 52 · 5.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R222°/10°C · wind 18 km/h WNW, gusts 52 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R325°/14°C · wind 20 km/h SW, gusts 49 · 1.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R422°/15°C · wind 13 km/h NNW, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R524°/13°C · wind 18 km/h SSW, gusts 40 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- LPGA Championship
- Eve-LPGA Championship
- Mazda LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by AIG
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola
- LPGA Championship presented by Wegmans
- Wegmans LPGA Championship
- KPMG Women's PGA Championship
1955–2026 in our record, 72 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
50 started
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Kathy Whitworth
The golfer
b. 1948, Oakville, Ontario, Canada; Canada; age 20 at the win (year page); 1st 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