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Sunday 24 July 1994Women’s majorsYear in Review

Sheehan wins U.S. Women's Open

Indianwood Golf and Country Club, Lake Orion, Michigan · Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 July 1994 · purse $850,000 · winner's share $155,000

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 36 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 67° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R126°/21°C · wind 16 km/h SSW, gusts 54 · 13 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R226°/20°C · wind 18 km/h SW, gusts 41 · 6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R328°/18°C · wind 15 km/h W, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R427°/18°C · wind 14 km/h WNW, gusts 32 · 6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. 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.

150 started, 67 (cut at 147) made it

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's major

U.S. Women's Open

Indianwood G. & C.C. (Old Course), Lake Orion

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Patty Sheehan

277Total
−7To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up: Tammie Green

The golfer

b. 1956-10-27, Middlebury, Vermont, United States; United States; age 37 at the win (year page); 5th major (card's count)

Patty Sheehan’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet