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Sunday 11 May 1980LPGA TourYear in Review
Higgins wins Lady Michelob
Brookfield West Golf & Country Club, Georgia (region; the course comes with research) · Friday 9 to Sunday 11 May 1980 · Pam Higgins’s win no. 3 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 38 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 75° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
- R2Not yet researched
- 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
- Donna Caponi Young USA · 211second, 211 (-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)
- Amy Alcott USA · 211second, 211 (-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)
, 72 made it
Same week
LPGA event
Lady Michelob
Brookfield West Golf & Country Club, Brookfield West Golf & Country Club, Georgia
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Pam Higgins
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pam Higgins | 67 · 71 · 70 | 208 | −11 |
| T2 | Donna Caponi Young | 72 · 72 · 67 | 211 | −8 |
| T2 | Amy Alcott | 69 · 69 · 73 | 211 | −8 |
| 4 | Pat Bradley | 71 · 74 · 68 | 213 | −6 |
| T5 | Susan Grams | 71 · 74 · 70 | 215 | −4 |
| T5 | Jan Stephenson | 72 · 72 · 71 | 215 | −4 |
| T7 | Alice Miller | 73 · 75 · 68 | 216 | −3 |
| T7 | Sandra Post | 77 · 71 · 68 | 216 | −3 |
| T7 | Jane Blalock | 72 · 73 · 71 | 216 | −3 |
| T10 | Shelley Hamlin | 72 · 76 · 69 | 217 | −2 |
| T10 | Debbie Austin | 71 · 76 · 70 | 217 | −2 |
| T10 | Lori Garbacz | 71 · 74 · 72 | 217 | −2 |
| T10 | Barbara Barrow | 72 · 70 · 75 | 217 | −2 |
The golfer
born 1945-12-05, Groveport, Ohio, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1969; age 34 that week; tour wins to date: 3.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
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