McDonald's Championship 1987: Betsy King wins

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Sunday 7 June 1987LPGA TourYear in Review

King wins McDonald's Championship

DuPont Country Club, Wilmington, Delaware (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 June 1987 · Betsy King’s win no. 10 on the LPGA Tour · purse $500,000 USD · McDonald's

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 36 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 74° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.

The ones it got away from

Ayako Okamoto JPN · 280second on 280, 2 strokes behind (LPGA Tournament Chronology 1980-89; margin per winner's Wikipedia wins table) LPGA Tournament Chronology 1980-89 (Wayback capture of dead lpga.com PDF)

, 84 made it

Same week

LPGA event

McDonald's Championship

DuPont Country Club, DuPont Country Club, Wilmington, Delaware

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Betsy King

278Total

−6To par

2 strokesMargin

Runner-up not yet researched.

Top 10

Pos	Player	Rounds	Total	To par
1	Betsy King	72 · 68 · 71 · 67	278	−6
2	Ayako Okamoto	70 · 73 · 65 · 72	280	−4
T3	Allison Finney	70 · 72 · 72 · 67	281	−3
T3	Lisa Walters	71 · 73 · 69 · 68	281	−3
T5	Val Skinner	75 · 70 · 67 · 70	282	−2
T5	Cathy Morse	66 · 70 · 72 · 74	282	−2
T7	Cindy Hill	71 · 72 · 72 · 68	283	−1
T7	Sherri Turner	67 · 71 · 72 · 73	283	−1
T9	Patty Sheehan	68 · 76 · 71 · 69	284	E
T9	Juli Inkster	70 · 71 · 72 · 71	284	E
T9	Patti Rizzo	68 · 73 · 71 · 72	284	E
T9	Lauri Merten	68 · 72 · 71 · 73	284	E

The golfer

born 1955-08-13, Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.; USA; turned pro 1977; age 31 that week; tour wins to date: 10; majors to date: 1.

Source

What’s in the bag

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From the papers

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