Konica San Jose Classic 1985: Val Skinner wins

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Sunday 22 September 1985LPGA TourYear in Review

Skinner wins Konica San Jose Classic

Almaden G&CC, San Jose, California (region; the course comes with research) · Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September 1985 · Val Skinner’s win no. 1 on the LPGA Tour · purse $250,000 USD · Konica

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

11 h 56 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 53° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter 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

Pat Bradley USA · 209lost playoff: Skinner won with par on first extra hole (Val Skinner article playoff record); Pat Bradley article: lost to par on first extra hole; chronology 'SD1' LPGA Tournament Chronology 1980-89 (Wayback capture of lpga.com PDF; decoded text on disk)

, 72 made it

Same week

LPGA event

Konica San Jose Classic

Almaden G&CC, Almaden G&CC, San Jose, California

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Val Skinner

209Total

−7To par

playoffMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10

Pos	Player	Rounds	Total	To par
1	Val Skinner	71 · 71 · 67	209	−7
2	Pat Bradley	68 · 73 · 68	209	−7
T3	Beth Solomon	72 · 71 · 68	211	−5
T3	Nancy Lopez	70 · 73 · 68	211	−5
T5	Sally Little	72 · 72 · 68	212	−4
T5	Silvia Bertolaccini	73 · 70 · 69	212	−4
T5	Mary Beth Zimmerman	71 · 72 · 69	212	−4
T5	Betsy King	71 · 71 · 70	212	−4
T5	JoAnne Carner	70 · 70 · 72	212	−4
T10	Laura Baugh	73 · 71 · 69	213	−3
T10	Patty Sheehan	73 · 71 · 69	213	−3
T10	Penny Pulz	72 · 70 · 71	213	−3

The golfer

born 1960-10-16, Hamilton, Montana, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1982; age 24 that week; tour wins to date: 1.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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