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Sunday 5 April 1981LPGA TourYear in Review
Lopez wins Colgate-Dinah Shore
Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California · Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 April 1981 · Nancy Lopez’s win no. 22 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 30 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 62° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R117°/11°C · wind 17 km/h WSW, gusts 56 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R221°/12°C · wind 14 km/h W, gusts 49 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R326°/10°C · wind 12 km/h NE, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R428°/17°C · wind 10 km/h ENE, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
- Colgate-Dinah Shore
- Nabisco Dinah Shore Invitational
- Nabisco Dinah Shore
- Nabisco Championship
- Kraft Nabisco Championship
- ANA Inspiration
- Chevron Championship
1972–2026 in our record, 55 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Carolyn Hill USA · 279second, 279 (-9) per chronology LPGA Tournament Chronology 1980-89 (Wayback capture of lpga.com PDF; decoded text on disk, not re-verified against the capture: Internet Archive 503/unreachable 2026-11-01 17:05-17:06)
, 66 made it
Same week
Women's tour event
Colgate-Dinah Shore
Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Carolyn Hill
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nancy Lopez-Melton | 71 · 73 · 69 · 64 | 277 | −11 |
| 2 | Carolyn Hill | 70 · 70 · 70 · 69 | 279 | −9 |
| 3 | Jane Blalock | 71 · 70 · 70 · 69 | 280 | −8 |
| 4 | Beth Daniel | 73 · 73 · 70 · 65 | 281 | −7 |
| T5 | Gail Toushin | 75 · 69 · 73 · 65 | 282 | −6 |
| T5 | Amy Alcott | 73 · 71 · 70 · 68 | 282 | −6 |
| T5 | Sandra Palmer | 70 · 72 · 71 · 69 | 282 | −6 |
| T8 | Susie McAllister | 74 · 71 · 69 · 70 | 284 | −4 |
| T8 | Jan Stephenson | 69 · 72 · 73 · 70 | 284 | −4 |
| T10 | Vicki Fergon | 71 · 74 · 71 · 69 | 285 | −3 |
| T10 | Penny Pulz | 69 · 74 · 72 · 70 | 285 | −3 |
The golfer
born 1957-01-06, Torrance, California, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1977; age 24 that week; tour wins to date: 22.
What’s in the bag
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From the papers
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