Golf Network News
Sunday 12 June 1977Women’s majorsYear in Review
Higuchi wins LPGA Championship
Bay Tree Golf Plantation, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina · Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 June 1977 · purse $150,000 · winner's share $22,500
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
14 h 13 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 79° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R130°/19°C · wind 26 km/h WSW, gusts 64 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R227°/16°C · wind 17 km/h NNW, gusts 34 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/14°C · wind 12 km/h ENE, gusts 25 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R431°/21°C · wind 13 km/h SW, gusts 33 · 0.8 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.
99 started, 64 (cut at 154) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
LPGA Championship
Bay Tree Golf Plantation (Gold Course), North Myrtle Beach
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Pat Bradley, Sandra Post, Judy Rankin
The golfer
b. 1945, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan; Japan; age 31 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