Golf Network News
Sunday 22 May 1988Women’s majorsYear in Review
Turner wins Mazda LPGA Championship
Jack Nicklaus Sports Center, Mason, Ohio · Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 May 1988 · purse $350,000 · winner's share $52,500
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 23 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/13°C · wind 16 km/h N, gusts 34 · 3.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R222°/12°C · wind 7 km/h N, gusts 21 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/13°C · wind 8 km/h SSE, gusts 24 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R431°/16°C · wind 13 km/h SE, gusts 28 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- LPGA Championship
- Eve-LPGA Championship
- Mazda LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by AIG
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola
- LPGA Championship presented by Wegmans
- Wegmans LPGA Championship
- KPMG Women's PGA Championship
1955–2026 in our record, 72 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
· cut 150
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
Mazda LPGA Championship
Jack Nicklaus Sports Center (Grizzly Course), Kings Island
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Amy Alcott
The golfer
b. 1956, Greenville, South Carolina, United States; United States; age 31 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