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Sunday 5 November 1989LPGA TourYear in Review
Crosby wins Mazda Japan Classic
Seta GC, Shiga, Japan (region; the course comes with research) · Friday 3 to Sunday 5 November 1989 · Elaine Crosby’s win no. 1 on the LPGA Tour · purse $500,000 USD · start/end from LPGA.com results JSON (startDate 1989-11-03, endDate 1989-11-05); end matches Wikipedia season table (Nov 5); chronology prints the same dates
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 22 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 38° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter 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
- Dawn Coe CAN · 208 LPGA Tournament Chronology 1980-89 (Wayback)
83 started, 73 made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
LPGA event
Mazda Japan Classic
Seta GC, Seta GC, Shiga, Japan
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Elaine Crosby
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elaine Crosby | 71 · 64 · 70 | 205 | −11 |
| 2 | Dawn Coe | 69 · 69 · 70 | 208 | −8 |
| 3 | Laura Davies | 67 · 73 · 69 | 209 | −7 |
| 4 | Ayako Okamoto | 70 · 67 · 73 | 210 | −6 |
| T5 | Colleen Walker | 71 · 70 · 70 | 211 | −5 |
| T5 | Cindy Rarick | 67 · 73 · 71 | 211 | −5 |
| 7 | Pat Bradley | 71 · 69 · 72 | 212 | −4 |
| T8 | Shirley Furlong | 73 · 72 · 68 | 213 | −3 |
| T8 | Nancy Scranton | 72 · 71 · 70 | 213 | −3 |
| T8 | Alice Ritzman | 71 · 70 · 72 | 213 | −3 |
| T8 | Deb Richard | 71 · 70 · 72 | 213 | −3 |
The golfer
born 1958-06-06, Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.; USA; age 31 that week; tour wins to date: 1.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet