Florida Lady Citrus 1980: Donna White wins

On the 1980 globe

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Sunday 20 April 1980LPGA TourYear in Review

White wins Florida Lady Citrus

Rio Pinar CC, Orlando, Fla. (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 April 1980 · Donna White’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

12 h 50 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 73° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

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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

Jane Blalock USA · 284second, 284 (-8) 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

Florida Lady Citrus

Rio Pinar CC, Rio Pinar CC, Orlando, Fla.

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Donna White

283Total

−9To par

1 strokeMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10

Pos	Player	Rounds	Total	To par
1	Donna White	70 · 73 · 70 · 70	283	−9
2	Jane Blalock	71 · 72 · 71 · 70	284	−8
T3	Janet Coles	69 · 72 · 73 · 71	285	−7
T3	Sandra Palmer	73 · 69 · 71 · 72	285	−7
5	Pat Meyers	74 · 70 · 69 · 73	286	−6
6	Judy Rankin	71 · 71 · 74 · 71	287	−5
T7	Lynn Adams	72 · 72 · 72 · 72	288	−4
T7	Gail Hirata-Chaffin	71 · 74 · 71 · 72	288	−4
T7	Carolyn Hill	70 · 70 · 73 · 75	288	−4
T10	JoAnne Carner	75 · 73 · 69 · 72	289	−3
T10	Kathy Postlewait	74 · 71 · 72 · 72	289	−3
T10	Patty Hayes	71 · 73 · 73 · 72	289	−3
T10	Jane Renner	73 · 70 · 71 · 75	289	−3

The golfer

born 1954-04-07, Kinston, North Carolina, U.S.; USA; age 26 that week; tour wins to date: 1.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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