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Sunday 10 November 1985LPGA TourYear in Review
Blalock wins Mazda Japan Classic
Musashigaoka GC, Tokyo, Japan (region; the course comes with research) · Friday 8 to Sunday 10 November 1985 · Jane Blalock’s win no. 27 on the LPGA Tour · purse $300,000 USD · Mazda
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
10 h 13 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 36° 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
- Ai-Yu Tu TPE · 208finished second (208, -8 as printed by the chronology) LPGA Tournament Chronology 1980-89 (Wayback capture of lpga.com PDF; decoded text on disk)
, 77 made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
LPGA event
Mazda Japan Classic
Musashigaoka GC, Musashigaoka GC, Tokyo, Japan
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Jane Blalock
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jane Blalock | 72 · 70 · 64 | 206 | −10 |
| 2 | Ai-Yu Tu | 69 · 69 · 70 | 208 | −8 |
| T3 | Debbie Massey | 70 · 74 · 68 | 212 | −4 |
| T3 | Ming-Yeh Wu | 70 · 73 · 69 | 212 | −4 |
| T3 | Nancy Lopez | 71 · 69 · 72 | 212 | −4 |
| T6 | Kathy Guadagnino | 70 · 72 · 71 | 213 | −3 |
| T6 | Laurie Rinker | 72 · 68 · 73 | 213 | −3 |
| T8 | Denise Haigh | 72 · 73 · 69 | 214 | −2 |
| T8 | Hollis Stacy | 73 · 71 · 70 | 214 | −2 |
| T8 | Alice Miller | 75 · 69 · 70 | 214 | −2 |
| T8 | Pat Bradley | 71 · 72 · 71 | 214 | −2 |
| T8 | Ok Hee Ku | 73 · 70 · 71 | 214 | −2 |
The golfer
born 1945-09-19, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1969; age 40 that week; tour wins to date: 27.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet