Golf Network News
Saturday 18 August 1979AmateurYear in Review
Hill wins U.S. Women's Amateur
Memphis Country Club, Memphis, Tennessee · Monday 13 to Saturday 18 August 1979
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 14 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 68° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R129°/17°C · wind 9 km/h SSE, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R231°/19°C · wind 9 km/h SSW, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R330°/19°C · wind 18 km/h NNE, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R428°/18°C · wind 13 km/h NE, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R532°/18°C · wind 8 km/h E, gusts 16 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R634°/21°C · wind 9 km/h SSW, gusts 22 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Women's Amateur
1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's amateur championship
U.S. Women's Amateur
Memphis (Tenn.) C.C., Memphis
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patty Sheehan
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1959-02-01, Santa Monica, California, U.S.; United States; age 20 at the win (year page)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet