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Sunday 29 March 1998LPGA TourYear in Review

Hurst wins Nabisco Dinah Shore

Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California · Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 March 1998 · Pat Hurst’s win no. 2 on the LPGA Tour · purse $1 million USD · Nabisco

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

12 h 15 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R117°/10°C · wind 15 km/h WSW, gusts 50 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R218°/13°C · wind 16 km/h WSW, gusts 55 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R314°/7°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 74 · 18.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R410°/6°C · wind 9 km/h WSW, gusts 40 · 1.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
  2. Colgate-Dinah Shore
  3. Nabisco Dinah Shore Invitational
  4. Nabisco Dinah Shore
  5. Nabisco Championship
  6. Kraft Nabisco Championship
  7. ANA Inspiration
  8. Chevron Championship

1972–2026 in our record, 55 editions.

The ones it got away from

· cut +7, 73 made it

Same week

Women's major

Nabisco Dinah Shore

Mission Hills Country Club (Dinah Shore Tournament Course), Rancho Mirage

4 of 5 researched

Winner

Pat Hurst

281Total
−7To par
1 strokeMargin

Runner-up: Helen Dobson

From the papers

Hurst wins Nabisco Dinah Shore, goes wading in lake - AP, March 29 1998 - GOLFonline (Wayback copy)

That was peer pressure. I wasn't going to get in over my head when I don't know how to swim.

Pat Hurst, quoted in Hurst wins Nabisco Dinah Shore, goes wading in lake - AP, March 29 1998 - GOLFonline (Wayback copy), 29 March 1998. The report

Hurst wins Nabisco Dinah Shore, goes wading in lake - AP, March 29 1998 - GOLFonline (Wayback copy)

After making that putt on 18, the pressure is off, I've won a major, and I just couldn't ask for anything more right now.

Pat Hurst, quoted in Hurst wins Nabisco Dinah Shore, goes wading in lake - AP, March 29 1998 - GOLFonline (Wayback copy), 29 March 1998. The report

Hurst wins Nabisco Dinah Shore, goes wading in lake - AP, March 29 1998 - GOLFonline (Wayback copy)

I asked my caddie, 'How am I doing?' He said I was just a shot back

Helen Dobson, quoted in Hurst wins Nabisco Dinah Shore, goes wading in lake - AP, March 29 1998 - GOLFonline (Wayback copy), 29 March 1998. The report
Top 10
PosPlayerRoundsTotalTo par
1Pat Hurst68 · 72 · 70 · 71281−7
2Helen Dobson70 · 74 · 71 · 67282−6
T3Laura Davies75 · 70 · 70 · 68283−5
T3Helen Alfredsson70 · 73 · 70 · 70283−5
T5Donna Andrews71 · 72 · 71 · 70284−4
T5Liselotte Neumann69 · 71 · 71 · 73284−4
T7Annika Sorenstam76 · 71 · 69 · 70286−2
T7Karrie Webb71 · 72 · 70 · 73286−2
T9Dottie Pepper73 · 72 · 74 · 68287−1
T9Sherri Steinhauer69 · 76 · 71 · 71287−1
The golfer

born 1969-05-23, San Leandro, California; USA; turned pro 1991; age 28 that week; tour wins to date: 2; majors to date: 1.

Pat Hurst’s player card · Source

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