Golf Network News
Monday 6 July 1998Women’s majorsYear in Review
Pak wins U.S. Women's Open
Blackwolf Run, Kohler, Wisconsin · Thursday 2 to Monday 6 July 1998 · purse $1,500,000 · winner's share $267,500
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 07 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 69° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R127°/18°C · wind 12 km/h WSW, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/20°C · wind 17 km/h SW, gusts 40 · 10.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R321°/15°C · wind 26 km/h NNE, gusts 51 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R422°/15°C · wind 16 km/h ESE, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R524°/19°C · wind 18 km/h SSW, gusts 30 · 11.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- 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, 62 (cut at 150) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
U.S. Women's Open
Blackwolf Run G.C., Kohler
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jenny Chuasiriporn (a)
The golfer
b. 1977-09-28, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; Republic of Korea; age 20 at the win (year page); 2nd 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