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Sunday 6 April 1980LPGA TourYear in Review
Caponi wins Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California · Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 April 1980 · Donna Caponi’s win no. 16 on the LPGA Tour · purse $250,000 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 34 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 63° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R123°/8°C · wind 8 km/h SW, gusts 25 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/11°C · wind 11 km/h WSW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R323°/12°C · wind 17 km/h W, gusts 56 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R426°/15°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 51 · 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
- Amy Alcott USA · 277second, 277 (-11) 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)
, 67 made it
Same week
Women's tour event
Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage
3 of 5 researched
Winner
275Total
−13To par
2 strokesMargin
Runner-up: Amy Alcott
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Donna Caponi | 71 · 67 · 66 · 71 | 275 | −13 |
| 2 | Amy Alcott | 73 · 65 · 67 · 72 | 277 | −11 |
| 3 | Jane Blalock | 69 · 69 · 73 · 68 | 279 | −9 |
| 4 | Pat Meyers | 71 · 67 · 71 · 72 | 281 | −7 |
| 5 | Sally Little | 69 · 73 · 70 · 71 | 283 | −5 |
| 6 | JoAnne Carner | 72 · 71 · 69 · 72 | 284 | −4 |
| T7 | Nancy Lopez | 72 · 69 · 72 · 73 | 286 | −2 |
| T7 | Beth Solomon | 68 · 72 · 74 · 72 | 286 | −2 |
| T9 | Sandra Haynie | 72 · 72 · 72 · 71 | 287 | −1 |
| T9 | Jo Ann Washam | 72 · 71 · 73 · 71 | 287 | −1 |
| T9 | Debbie Austin | 71 · 72 · 71 · 73 | 287 | −1 |
The golfer
born 1945-01-29, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1965; age 35 that week; tour wins to date: 16.
What’s in the bag
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From the papers
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