American Defender/WRAL Classic 1980: Amy Alcott wins

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Sunday 13 April 1980LPGA TourYear in Review

Alcott wins American Defender/WRAL Classic

North Ridge CC, Raleigh, N.C. (region; the course comes with research) · Friday 11 to Sunday 13 April 1980 · Amy Alcott’s win no. 10 on the LPGA Tour · purse $100,000 USD

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 52 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 63° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

R1Not yet researched
R2Not yet researched
R3Not yet researched
R4Not yet researched

The name over time

Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.

The ones it got away from

Donna Caponi Young USA · 210second, 210 (-6) per chronology LPGA Tournament Chronology 1980-89 (Wayback capture of lpga.com PDF; decoded text on disk at _work/sched/chron80/chron80.txt, not re-verified against the capture this run)

, 73 made it

Same week

LPGA event

American Defender/WRAL Classic

North Ridge CC, North Ridge CC, Raleigh, N.C.

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Amy Alcott

206Total

−10To par

4 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10

Pos	Player	Rounds	Total	To par
1	Amy Alcott	68 · 69 · 69	206	−10
2	Donna Caponi Young	70 · 68 · 72	210	−6
3	Dot Germain	73 · 71 · 67	211	−5
4	Sandra Post	71 · 67 · 74	212	−4
T5	Kathy McMullen	73 · 71 · 69	213	−3
T5	Patty Hayes	72 · 70 · 71	213	−3
7	Marlene Floyd	71 · 71 · 72	214	−2
T8	Barb Moxness	72 · 73 · 70	215	−1
T8	Cathy Morse	75 · 70 · 70	215	−1
T10	Kathy Whitworth	71 · 74 · 71	216	E
T10	Silvia Bertolaccini	71 · 73 · 72	216	E
T10	Lynn Adams	68 · 74 · 74	216	E
T10	Kathy Hite-James	73 · 69 · 74	216	E

The golfer

born 1956-02-22, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1975; age 24 that week; tour wins to date: 10.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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