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Year in Review
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Eleven championships in our record: six majors (four men’s, two women’s), four amateur championships and one team cup. Catherine Lacoste won two of them: The Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur.
1969, coloured the way magazines tinted their plates then: by hand.
Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.
Men's major
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Billy Casper, George Knudson, Tom Weiskopf
b. 1939-10-01, San Francisco, California, USA; United States; age 29 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
NCR Country Club (South Course), Dayton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Gary Player
b. 1942-09-04, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA; United States; age 26 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Bob Charles
b. 1944-07-07, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England; England; age 25 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Champions G.C., Houston
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Deane Beman, Al Geiberger, Bob Rosburg
b. 1933-12-09, Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA; USA; 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Concord Golf Course, Kiamesha Lake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Susie Maxwell Berning, Carol Mann
b. 1928-05-04, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States; United States; age 41 at the win (year page); 8th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Scenic Hills Country Club, Pensacola
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Peggy Wilson
b. 1945-01-29, Detroit, Michigan, United States; United States; age 24 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Bill Hyndman
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1934-12-31, Chigwell, Essex, England; England
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Oakmont Country Club, Oakmont
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Vinny Giles
Score, to par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1947-02-26, Brunswick, Georgia, U.S.; United States; age 22 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Royal Portrush, Portrush
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ann Irvin
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1945-06-27, Paris, Île-de-France, France; France; age 23 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Las Colinas C.C., Irving
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Shelley Hamlin
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1945-06-27, Paris, Île-de-France, France; France; age 24 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Our team-cup record so far: Ryder Cup.
Team cup
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport
1 of 5 researched
Winner
none (tie)
To par, margin and runner-up not yet researched.
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Eleven championships in our record: six majors (four men’s, two women’s), four amateur championships and one team cup. Catherine Lacoste won two of them: The Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur.
To be written The synopsis of 1969: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written How each was won, and where the women’s game stood in 1969.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
To be written The match: the captains, the score, the deciding points.
10 tour events are laid out week by week for 1969.
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Catherine Lacoste won two championships in our record (The Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur).
To be written Who defined 1969: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.
The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.
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