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Sunday 9 May 1982LPGA TourYear in Review
Little wins United Virginia Bank Classic
Sleepy Hole GC, Portsmouth, Virginia (region; the course comes with research) · Friday 7 to Sunday 9 May 1982 · Sally Little’s win no. 13 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
13 h 49 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous 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
- Kathy Whitworth USA · 208tied 208 (-11) per chronology, lost playoff (chronology SD1; LPGA.com playoff block ELM) LPGA Tournament Chronology 1980-89 (Wayback capture of lpga.com PDF; decoded text on disk, not re-verified against the capture: Internet Archive unreachable 2026-11-01 16:31-16:33)
, 87 made it
Same week
LPGA event
United Virginia Bank Classic
Sleepy Hole GC, Sleepy Hole GC, Portsmouth, Virginia
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Sally Little
Margin and runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sally Little | 72 · 69 · 67 | 208 | −11 |
| 2 | Kathy Whitworth | 68 · 69 · 71 | 208 | −11 |
| T3 | Jan Stephenson | 68 · 67 · 74 | 209 | −10 |
| T3 | Beth Daniel | 69 · 69 · 71 | 209 | −10 |
| T5 | Janet Coles | 71 · 74 · 70 | 215 | −4 |
| T5 | Lenore Rittenhouse | 72 · 73 · 70 | 215 | −4 |
| T5 | Pat Bradley | 71 · 71 · 73 | 215 | −4 |
| 8 | Penny Pulz | 73 · 69 · 74 | 216 | −3 |
| 9 | Donna Caponi | 71 · 75 · 72 | 218 | −1 |
| T10 | Dianne Dailey | 72 · 76 · 72 | 220 | +1 |
| T10 | Lori Murphy | 71 · 77 · 72 | 220 | +1 |
| T10 | Debbie Austin | 74 · 73 · 73 | 220 | +1 |
| T10 | Christa Johnson | 71 · 75 · 74 | 220 | +1 |
The golfer
born 1951-10-12, Cape Town, South Africa; RSA; turned pro 1971; age 30 that week; tour wins to date: 13.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet