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Sunday 25 May 1980LPGA TourYear in Review
Young wins Corning Classic
Corning CC, Corning, N.Y. (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 May 1980 · Donna Caponi Young’s win no. 17 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
14 h 44 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 69° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
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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
- Myra Van Hoose USA · 283second, 283 (-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)
, 69 made it
Same week
LPGA event
Corning Classic
Corning CC, Corning CC, Corning, N.Y.
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Donna Caponi Young
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Donna Caponi Young | 66 · 72 · 69 · 74 | 281 | −7 |
| 2 | Myra Van Hoose | 72 · 70 · 74 · 67 | 283 | −5 |
| T3 | Sandra Spuzich | 69 · 72 · 70 · 74 | 285 | −3 |
| T3 | Donna White | 73 · 66 · 72 · 74 | 285 | −3 |
| T5 | Lori Garbacz | 71 · 70 · 70 · 75 | 286 | −2 |
| T5 | Betsy King | 73 · 72 · 68 · 73 | 286 | −2 |
| 7 | Janet Anderson | 74 · 73 · 70 · 70 | 287 | −1 |
| T8 | Alice Ritzman | 73 · 73 · 71 · 71 | 288 | E |
| T8 | Barbara Mizrahie | 73 · 72 · 72 · 71 | 288 | E |
| T8 | Jane Renner | 73 · 72 · 70 · 73 | 288 | E |
| T8 | Patty Hayes | 76 · 68 · 71 · 73 | 288 | E |
| T8 | Vivian Brownlee | 74 · 69 · 70 · 75 | 288 | E |
The golfer
born 1945-01-29, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1965; age 35 that week; tour wins to date: 17.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet