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Sunday 23 June 1974Women’s majorsYear in Review

Haynie wins LPGA Championship

Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton, Massachusetts · Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 June 1974 · purse $50,000 · winner's share $7,000

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 05 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R128°/17°C · wind 16 km/h SW, gusts 38 · 1.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R226°/18°C · wind 17 km/h SW, gusts 46 · 11.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R325°/17°C · wind 11 km/h WNW, gusts 29 · 1.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R419°/15°C · wind 12 km/h NNW, gusts 27 · 1.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. LPGA Championship
  2. Eve-LPGA Championship
  3. Mazda LPGA Championship
  4. McDonald's LPGA Championship
  5. McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by AIG
  6. McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola
  7. LPGA Championship presented by Wegmans
  8. Wegmans LPGA Championship
  9. 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.

88 started

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's major

LPGA Championship

Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Sandra Haynie

288Total
−4To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up: JoAnne Carner

The golfer

b. 1943-06-04, Fort Worth, Texas, United States; United States; age 31 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)

Sandra Haynie’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet