Golf Network News
Sunday 21 May 1989Women’s majorsYear in Review
Lopez wins Mazda LPGA Championship
Jack Nicklaus Sports Center, Mason, Ohio · Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 May 1989 · purse $500,000 · winner's share $75,000
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 20 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R127°/14°C · wind 16 km/h ESE, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R224°/19°C · wind 21 km/h SSE, gusts 45 · 3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R327°/17°C · wind 22 km/h SW, gusts 47 · 6.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R426°/13°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 30 · 0 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 149
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: Ayako Okamoto
The golfer
b. 1957, Torrance, California, United States; United States; age 32 at the win (year page); 3rd 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