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Sunday 29 March 1992LPGA TourYear in Review
Pepper wins Nabisco Dinah Shore
Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California · Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 March 1992 · Dottie Pepper’s win no. 3 on the LPGA Tour · purse $700,000 USD
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 17 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R123°/13°C · wind 9 km/h WSW, gusts 34 · 4.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R219°/14°C · wind 6 km/h WSW, gusts 25 · 12.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R322°/15°C · wind 8 km/h W, gusts 25 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R424°/15°C · wind 8 km/h WSW, gusts 29 · 2.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
- Colgate-Dinah Shore
- Nabisco Dinah Shore Invitational
- Nabisco Dinah Shore
- Nabisco Championship
- Kraft Nabisco Championship
- ANA Inspiration
- Chevron Championship
1972–2026 in our record, 55 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Juli Inkster USA · 279tied on 279 after leaving a five-foot birdie putt short on the 18th hole; Mochrie then tapped in for par on the first playoff hole (Inkster 5) Free and Easy Does It - Sonja Steptoe, Sports Illustrated, April 6, 1992 (SI Vault, dead page; Wayback)
, 73 made it
Same week
Women's major
Nabisco Dinah Shore
Mission Hills Country Club (Dinah Shore Tournament Course), Rancho Mirage
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Juli Inkster
From the papers
Sports Illustrated (Sonja Steptoe, 'Free and Easy Does It')
6 April 1992
"Normally I would have been crawling out of my skin," said Mochrie afterward. "This time, I just tried to play it low-key and hang in there."
Sports Illustrated (Sonja Steptoe, 'Free and Easy Does It')
6 April 1992
"I'm learning to take the bad days better," she says. "This isn't a matter of life and death."
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dottie Mochrie | 69 · 71 · 70 · 69 | 279 | −9 |
| 2 | Juli Inkster | 72 · 68 · 68 · 71 | 279 | −9 |
| T3 | Brandie Burton | 70 · 72 · 71 · 68 | 281 | −7 |
| T3 | Patty Sheehan | 71 · 69 · 69 · 72 | 281 | −7 |
| 5 | Meg Mallon | 73 · 69 · 72 · 68 | 282 | −6 |
| T6 | Dale Eggeling | 67 · 78 · 69 · 70 | 284 | −4 |
| T6 | Sherri Steinhauer | 72 · 73 · 69 · 70 | 284 | −4 |
| T8 | Beth Daniel | 70 · 68 · 76 · 71 | 285 | −3 |
| T8 | Michelle McGann | 68 · 74 · 71 · 72 | 285 | −3 |
| T8 | Kris Tschetter | 73 · 71 · 73 · 68 | 285 | −3 |
| T8 | Pamela Wright | 74 · 71 · 71 · 69 | 285 | −3 |
The golfer
born 1965-08-17, Saratoga Springs, New York; USA; turned pro 1988; age 26 that week; tour wins to date: 3; majors to date: 1.
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet