Golf Network News
Tuesday 28 July 1987Women’s majorsYear in Review
Davies wins U.S. Women's Open
Plainfield Country Club, Edison, New Jersey · Thursday 23 to Tuesday 28 July 1987 · purse $325,000 · winner's share $55,000
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 17 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 68° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R133°/22°C · wind 12 km/h E, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R234°/23°C · wind 12 km/h SW, gusts 33 · 0.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R335°/24°C · wind 13 km/h WSW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R428°/22°C · wind 17 km/h W, gusts 52 · 7.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R529°/20°C · wind 9 km/h W, gusts 21 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R630°/20°C · wind 12 km/h NNE, gusts 25 · 0 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.
153 started, 68 (cut at 152) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
U.S. Women's Open
Plainfield C.C., Edison
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ayako Okamoto, JoAnne Carner
The golfer
b. 1963-10-05, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; England; age 23 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