Golf Network News
Monday 14 July 1986Women’s majorsYear in Review
Geddes wins U.S. Women's Open
NCR Country Club, Kettering, Ohio · Thursday 10 to Monday 14 July 1986 · purse $300,000 · winner's share $50,000
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 34 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 72° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R125°/20°C · wind 14 km/h ESE, gusts 30 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R230°/21°C · wind 19 km/h SSW, gusts 58 · 13.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/22°C · wind 19 km/h SW, gusts 51 · 7.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R430°/22°C · wind 19 km/h W, gusts 39 · 10.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R526°/21°C · wind 15 km/h W, gusts 35 · 10.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Women's Open
1946–2026 in our record, 81 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
150 started, 79 (cut at 153) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
U.S. Women's Open
NCR C.C., Kettering
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Sally Little
The golfer
b. 1960-02-05, Huntington, New York, United States; United States; age 26 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet