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Sunday 10 June 1973Women’s majorsYear in Review
Mills wins LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton, Massachusetts · Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 June 1973 · 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
15 h 01 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R126°/18°C · wind 19 km/h SSW, gusts 59 · 4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R228°/17°C · wind 15 km/h WSW, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R331°/19°C · wind 19 km/h WSW, gusts 48 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R429°/18°C · wind 18 km/h WNW, 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.
, 55 (cut at 159) made it
Same week
Women's major
LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Betty Burfeindt
The golfer
b. 1940-01-19, Laurel, Mississippi, United States; United States; age 33 at the win (year page); 3rd 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