Golf Network News
Sunday 12 May 1996Women’s majorsYear in Review
Davies wins McDonald's LPGA Championship
DuPont Country Club, Wilmington, Delaware · Friday 10 to Sunday 12 May 1996 · purse $1,200,000 · winner's share $180,000
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 08 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 69° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R123°/11°C · wind 15 km/h SSW, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/15°C · wind 24 km/h SW, gusts 63 · 9.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R315°/10°C · wind 29 km/h WNW, gusts 64 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course 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 148
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
McDonald's LPGA Championship
DuPont Country Club, Wilmington
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Julie Piers
The golfer
b. 1963-10-05, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; England; 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