Golf Network News
Monday 27 July 1992Women’s majorsYear in Review
Sheehan wins U.S. Women's Open
Oakmont Country Club, Oakmont, Pennsylvania · Thursday 23 to Monday 27 July 1992 · purse $700,000 · winner's share $130,000
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 16 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 68° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R126°/19°C · wind 11 km/h SSW, gusts 32 · 15.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R225°/19°C · wind 10 km/h SE, gusts 27 · 23.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R326°/19°C · wind 7 km/h N, gusts 20 · 1.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R423°/19°C · wind 19 km/h SSW, gusts 38 · 25 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R526°/18°C · wind 11 km/h NW, gusts 30 · 0.9 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.
156 started, 66 (cut at 151) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
U.S. Women's Open
Oakmont C.C., Oakmont
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Juli Inkster
The golfer
b. 1956-10-27, Middlebury, Vermont, United States; United States; age 35 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