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Saturday 22 August 1970AmateurYear in Review

Wilkinson wins U.S. Women's Amateur

Wee Burn Country Club, Darien, Connecticut · Monday 17 to Saturday 22 August 1970

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

13 h 21 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R129°/24°C · wind 18 km/h WSW, gusts 41 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R229°/19°C · wind 18 km/h NW, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R326°/18°C · wind 14 km/h ESE, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R425°/23°C · wind 19 km/h S, gusts 40 · 4.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R527°/21°C · wind 16 km/h NW, gusts 36 · 11.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R625°/18°C · wind 16 km/h ENE, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. U.S. Women's Amateur

1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.

The ones it got away from

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

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.