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Sunday 24 May 1981LPGA TourYear in Review
Hite wins Corning Classic
Corning CC, Corning, N.Y. (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 May 1981 · Kathy Hite’s win no. 1 on the LPGA Tour · purse $125,000 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 40 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 69° up at noon, and that night a waning 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
- JoAnne Carner USA · 283second, 283 (-5) 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)
, 70 made it
Same week
LPGA event
Corning Classic
Corning CC, Corning CC, Corning, N.Y.
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Kathy Hite
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kathy Hite | 71 · 70 · 69 · 72 | 282 | −6 |
| 2 | JoAnne Carner | 71 · 71 · 74 · 67 | 283 | −5 |
| T3 | Nancy Lopez | 69 · 76 · 70 · 70 | 285 | −3 |
| T3 | Patty Sheehan | 66 · 75 · 72 · 72 | 285 | −3 |
| 5 | Cathy Morse | 68 · 73 · 73 · 72 | 286 | −2 |
| T6 | Joan Joyce | 70 · 73 · 77 · 69 | 289 | +1 |
| T6 | Dot Germain | 74 · 73 · 72 · 70 | 289 | +1 |
| T8 | Cindy Hill | 74 · 73 · 75 · 68 | 290 | +2 |
| T8 | Barb Moxness | 74 · 72 · 75 · 69 | 290 | +2 |
| T8 | Carolyn Hill | 76 · 67 · 75 · 72 | 290 | +2 |
| T8 | Christa Johnson | 76 · 72 · 71 · 71 | 290 | +2 |
| T8 | Debbie Austin | 69 · 74 · 72 · 75 | 290 | +2 |
The golfer
born 1948-09-08, Florence, South Carolina, U.S.; USA; age 32 that week; tour wins to date: 1.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet