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Sunday 31 May 1981LPGA TourYear in Review
Reynolds wins Golden Lights Championship
The Stanwich Club, Greenwich, Conn. (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 28 to Sunday 31 May 1981 · Cathy Reynolds’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 47 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
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The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Betsy King USA · 287second, 287 (-1) 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)
, 72 made it
Same week
LPGA event
Golden Lights Championship
The Stanwich Club, The Stanwich Club, Greenwich, Conn.
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Cathy Reynolds
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cathy Reynolds | 70 · 71 · 72 · 72 | 285 | −3 |
| 2 | Betsy King | 72 · 73 · 71 · 71 | 287 | −1 |
| T3 | Kathy Whitworth | 73 · 72 · 72 · 72 | 289 | +1 |
| T3 | Amy Alcott | 70 · 75 · 71 · 73 | 289 | +1 |
| 5 | JoAnne Carner | 75 · 71 · 70 · 74 | 290 | +2 |
| 6 | Vicki Tabor | 74 · 74 · 71 · 72 | 291 | +3 |
| 7 | Jan Stephenson | 73 · 72 · 75 · 72 | 292 | +4 |
| T8 | Sandra Spuzich | 75 · 74 · 72 · 72 | 293 | +5 |
| T8 | Joan Joyce | 70 · 72 · 75 · 76 | 293 | +5 |
| T8 | Sandra Post | 72 · 75 · 70 · 76 | 293 | +5 |
| T8 | Marlene Floyd | 70 · 73 · 73 · 77 | 293 | +5 |
The golfer
born 1957-07-19, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.; USA; age 23 that week; tour wins to date: 1.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet