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Saturday 16 August 1980AmateurYear in Review
Inkster wins U.S. Women's Amateur
Prairie Dunes Country Club, Hutchinson, Kansas · Monday 11 to Saturday 16 August 1980
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 24 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 65° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R132°/21°C · wind 17 km/h NNE, gusts 33 · 3.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R236°/21°C · wind 23 km/h S, gusts 41 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R336°/25°C · wind 26 km/h SSW, gusts 51 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R430°/21°C · wind 23 km/h S, gusts 45 · 17.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R529°/21°C · wind 19 km/h ESE, gusts 42 · 11.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R635°/22°C · wind 20 km/h S, gusts 42 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Women's Amateur
1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's amateur championship
U.S. Women's Amateur
Prairie Dunes C.C., Hutchinson
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patti Rizzo
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1960-06-24, Santa Cruz, California, United States; United States; age 20 at the win (year page)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet