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Sunday 11 June 1972Women’s majorsYear in Review
Ahern wins Eve-LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton, Massachusetts · Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 June 1972 · purse $50,000 · winner's share $7,500
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 02 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R120°/11°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 40 · 3.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/16°C · wind 22 km/h WSW, gusts 51 · 11.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R318°/8°C · wind 25 km/h NW, gusts 56 · 8.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R416°/5°C · wind 18 km/h NW, gusts 41 · 0 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.
82 started, 52 (cut at 160) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
Eve-LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jane Blalock
The golfer
b. 1949, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; United States; age 23 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