Rail Charity Classic 1983: Lauri Peterson wins

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Monday 5 September 1983LPGA TourYear in Review

Peterson wins Rail Charity Classic

The Rail Golf Course, Springfield, Illinois (region; the course comes with research) · Saturday 3 to Monday 5 September 1983 · Lauri Peterson’s win no. 1 on the LPGA Tour · purse $150,000 USD · Monday finish (Sep 5) per LPGA.com (Sep 3 - 5), chronology (September 3-5) and Wikipedia season table

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 44 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent 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

Judy Ellis · 210lost sudden-death playoff on first extra hole to a par (chronology SD1; Merten's Wikipedia playoff record) Lauri Merten - Wikipedia

, 78 made it

Same week

LPGA event

Rail Charity Classic

The Rail Golf Course, The Rail Golf Course, Springfield, Illinois

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Lauri Peterson

210Total

−6To par

PlayoffMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10

Pos	Player	Rounds	Total	To par
1	Lauri Peterson	68 · 70 · 72	210	−6
2	Judy Sams	70 · 70 · 70	210	−6
T3	Cathy Mant	72 · 69 · 71	212	−4
T3	Ayako Okamoto	71 · 69 · 72	212	−4
T3	Val Skinner	68 · 71 · 73	212	−4
T6	JoAnne Carner	74 · 70 · 69	213	−3
T6	Carole Charbonnier	70 · 72 · 71	213	−3
T6	Kathryn Young-Robyn	70 · 69 · 74	213	−3
T9	Rosie Jones	70 · 75 · 69	214	−2
T9	Bonnie Lauer	71 · 73 · 70	214	−2
T9	Jackie Bertsch	70 · 70 · 74	214	−2
T9	Kathy Postlewait	70 · 69 · 75	214	−2

The golfer

born 1960-07-06, Waukesha, Wisconsin; USA; turned pro 1983; age 23 that week; tour wins to date: 1.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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