Golf Network News
Sunday 27 July 1969Women’s majorsYear in Review
Rawls wins LPGA Championship
Concord Golf Club, Kiamesha Lake, New York · Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 July 1969 · purse $35,000 · winner's share $5,250
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 24 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 67° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R122°/13°C · wind 12 km/h E, gusts 38 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R221°/14°C · wind 12 km/h SSE, gusts 28 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R321°/16°C · wind 14 km/h SSE, gusts 35 · 7.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R424°/18°C · wind 18 km/h SSE, gusts 34 · 35.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre 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.
63 started, 41 (cut at 162) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
LPGA Championship
Concord Golf Course, Kiamesha Lake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Susie Maxwell Berning, Carol Mann
The golfer
b. 1928-05-04, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States; United States; age 41 at the win (year page); 8th 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