Golf Network News
Sunday 1 June 1975Women’s majorsYear in Review
Whitworth wins LPGA Championship
Pine Ridge Golf Course, Lutherville, Maryland · Thursday 29 May to Sunday 1 June 1975 · purse $55,000 · winner's share $8,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
14 h 35 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 73° up at noon, and that night a last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R127°/14°C · wind 12 km/h SE, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/19°C · wind 15 km/h S, gusts 51 · 7.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R329°/21°C · wind 14 km/h S, gusts 35 · 7.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R424°/19°C · wind 17 km/h WSW, gusts 34 · 9.6 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.
96 started, 53 (cut at 152) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
LPGA Championship
Pine Ridge Golf Course, Baltimore
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Sandra Haynie
The golfer
b. 1939, Monahans, Texas, United States; United States; age 35 at the win (year page); 6th 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