Golf Network News
Sunday 18 May 1997Women’s majorsYear in Review
Johnson wins McDonald's LPGA Championship
DuPont Country Club, Wilmington, Delaware · Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 May 1997 · 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 17 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 70° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R122°/14°C · wind 20 km/h WSW, gusts 46 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/10°C · wind 31 km/h W, gusts 71 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R318°/10°C · wind 24 km/h SW, gusts 54 · 0.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R421°/11°C · wind 13 km/h SE, gusts 38 · 1 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 150
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: Leta Lindley
The golfer
b. 1958, Arcata, California, United States; United States; age 39 at the win (year page); 1st 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