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Year in Review
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Fourteen championships in our record: eight majors (four men’s, four women’s), four amateur championships and two women’s tour events. Laura Davies won three of them: Evian Masters, McDonald's LPGA Championship and du Maurier Ltd. Classic. Kelli Kuehne won two of them: The Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur.
1996, developed the way it was shot: on colour film, with its grain.
Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.
Men's major
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Greg Norman
b. 1957-07-18, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England; England; age 38 at the win (year page); 6th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Kenny Perry
b. 1961-03-25, Fort Worth, Texas, USA; United States; age 35 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ernie Els, Mark McCumber
b. 1959-03-07, Austin, Minnesota, USA; United States; age 37 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Oakland Hills C.C., Bloomfield Hills
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Tom Lehman, Davis Love III
b. 1958-12-27, Artesia, New Mexico, USA; USA; 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
DuPont Country Club, Wilmington
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Julie Piers
b. 1963-10-05, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; England; age 32 at the win (year page); 3rd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Mission Hills Country Club (Dinah Shore Tournament Course), Rancho Mirage
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Meg Mallon, Kelly Robbins, Annika Sörenstam
b. 1956-10-27, Middlebury, Vermont, United States; United States; age 39 at the win (year page); 6th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Pine Needles L. & G.C., Southern Pines
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Kris Tschetter
b. 1970-10-09, Bro, Stockholm County, Sweden; Sweden; age 25 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Edmonton Country Club, Edmonton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Nancy Lopez, Karrie Webb
b. 1963-10-05, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; England; age 32 at the win (year page); 4th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Turnberry (Ailsa course), Turnberry
1 of 5 researched
Winner
Warren Bladon
Runner-up: Roger Beames
To par and margin not yet researched.
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club (Witch Hollow Course), North Plains
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Steve Scott
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1975-12-30, Cypress, California, USA; United States; age 20 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Becky Morgan
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1977-05-11, Dallas, Texas, U.S.; United States
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Firethorn G.C., Lincoln
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Marisa Baena
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1977-05-11, Dallas, Texas, U.S.; United States; age 19 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women’s championships played before they were counted as majors.
Women's tour event
Evian Resort Golf Club, Évian-les-Bains
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Carin Koch
b. 1963-10-05, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; England; age 32 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's tour event
Woburn Golf & Country Club (Duke's Course), Little Brickhill (near Milton Keynes)
1 of 5 researched
Winner
Emilee Klein
Runner-up: Amy Alcott, Penny Hammel
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Fourteen championships in our record: eight majors (four men’s, four women’s), four amateur championships and two women’s tour events. Laura Davies won three of them: Evian Masters, McDonald's LPGA Championship and du Maurier Ltd. Classic. Kelli Kuehne won two of them: The Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur.
To be written The synopsis of 1996: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written How each was won, and where the women’s game stood in 1996.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
To be written The women’s tour season around these events.
13 tour events are laid out week by week for 1996. The most winners’ circles, counted from those schedules: Laura Davies (3).
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Laura Davies won three championships in our record (Evian Masters, McDonald's LPGA Championship and du Maurier Ltd. Classic) and Kelli Kuehne won two championships in our record (The Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur).
To be written Who defined 1996: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.
The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.
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