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Sunday 8 April 1979LPGA TourYear in Review
Post wins Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California · Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 April 1979 · Sandra Post’s win no. 4 on the LPGA Tour · purse $250,000 USD · start from the LPGA Chronology date range; end confirmed by Wikipedia 1979 season table
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 36 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 63° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R129°/13°C · wind 8 km/h WSW, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R228°/14°C · wind 13 km/h W, gusts 45 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R327°/13°C · wind 9 km/h W, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R429°/14°C · wind 12 km/h NW, gusts 40 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
- Colgate-Dinah Shore
- Nabisco Dinah Shore Invitational
- Nabisco Dinah Shore
- Nabisco Championship
- Kraft Nabisco Championship
- ANA Inspiration
- Chevron Championship
1972–2026 in our record, 55 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Nancy Lopez USAsecond (LPGA Chronology) LPGA Tournament Chronology 1970-79 (dead lpga.com PDF, Wayback capture; decoded text on disk)
Same week
Women's tour event
Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Nancy Lopez
From the papers
Sports Illustrated
16 April 1979 From the print archive
make a last-minute decision to go in.
Sports Illustrated
16 April 1979 From the print archive
I've never done anything to those girls, except beat them. It doesn't bother me. I don't hang around with them anyway.
Sports Illustrated
16 April 1979 From the print archive
God putts for her, and Godzilla hits her driver.
Sports Illustrated
16 April 1979 From the print archive
I tell the girls, if you want the press to stop writing about Lopez, go out and beat her.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Post | 68 · 70 · 68 · 70 | 276 | −12 |
| 2 | Nancy Lopez |
The golfer
born 1948-06-04, Oakville, Ontario; CAN; turned pro 1968; age 30 that week; tour wins to date: 4.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet