Golf Network News
Sunday 17 May 1998Women’s majorsYear in Review
Pak wins McDonald's LPGA Championship
DuPont Country Club, Wilmington, Delaware · Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 May 1998 · purse $1,300,000 · winner's share $195,000
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 15 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 69° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R124°/7°C · wind 11 km/h NE, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R229°/10°C · wind 10 km/h W, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R332°/14°C · wind 12 km/h SSE, gusts 22 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R425°/16°C · wind 10 km/h E, gusts 25 · 4.2 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.
139 started, 72 (cut at 146) made it
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: Donna Andrews, Lisa Hackney
The golfer
b. 1977-09-28, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; Republic of Korea; age 20 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