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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).

  1. R123°/8°C · wind 8 km/h SW, gusts 25 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R226°/11°C · wind 11 km/h WSW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R323°/12°C · wind 17 km/h W, gusts 56 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. 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

  1. Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
  2. Colgate-Dinah Shore
  3. Nabisco Dinah Shore Invitational
  4. Nabisco Dinah Shore
  5. Nabisco Championship
  6. Kraft Nabisco Championship
  7. ANA Inspiration
  8. Chevron Championship

1972–2026 in our record, 55 editions.

The ones it got away from

, 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

Donna Caponi

275Total
−13To par
2 strokesMargin

Runner-up: Amy Alcott

Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Donna Caponi71 · 67 · 66 · 71275−13
2Amy Alcott73 · 65 · 67 · 72277−11
3Jane Blalock69 · 69 · 73 · 68279−9
4Pat Meyers71 · 67 · 71 · 72281−7
5Sally Little69 · 73 · 70 · 71283−5
6JoAnne Carner72 · 71 · 69 · 72284−4
T7Nancy Lopez72 · 69 · 72 · 73286−2
T7Beth Solomon68 · 72 · 74 · 72286−2
T9Sandra Haynie72 · 72 · 72 · 71287−1
T9Jo Ann Washam72 · 71 · 73 · 71287−1
T9Debbie Austin71 · 72 · 71 · 73287−1
The golfer

born 1945-01-29, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1965; age 35 that week; tour wins to date: 16.

Donna Caponi’s player card · Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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