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Sunday 27 April 1980LPGA TourYear in Review
Barrow wins Birmingham Classic
Green Valley CC, Birmingham, Ala. (region; the course comes with research) · Friday 25 to Sunday 27 April 1980 · Barbara Barrow’s win no. 1 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
13 h 31 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 65° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
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- 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
- Beth Daniel USA · 211second, 211 (-5) 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)
, 70 made it
Same week
LPGA event
Birmingham Classic
Green Valley CC, Green Valley CC, Birmingham, Ala.
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Barbara Barrow
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barbara Barrow | 71 · 72 · 67 | 210 | −6 |
| 2 | Beth Daniel | 72 · 70 · 69 | 211 | −5 |
| 3 | Penny Pulz | 73 · 70 · 69 | 212 | −4 |
| T4 | Beth Solomon | 69 · 75 · 69 | 213 | −3 |
| T4 | Pat Meyers | 69 · 74 · 70 | 213 | −3 |
| T4 | Kathy Linney | 69 · 72 · 72 | 213 | −3 |
| T7 | Sandra Palmer | 71 · 72 · 71 | 214 | −2 |
| T7 | JoAnne Carner | 71 · 71 · 72 | 214 | −2 |
| T7 | Pat Bradley | 71 · 68 · 75 | 214 | −2 |
| T10 | Vicki Singleton-Harshber | 72 · 70 · 73 | 215 | −1 |
| T10 | Judy Rankin | 70 · 71 · 74 | 215 | −1 |
The golfer
born 1955-04-15; USA; turned pro 1977; age 25 that week; tour wins to date: 1.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet