Golf Network News
Sunday 27 June 1999Women’s majorsYear in Review
Inkster wins McDonald's LPGA Championship
DuPont Country Club, Wilmington, Delaware · Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 June 1999 · purse $1,400,000 · winner's share $210,000
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 48 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 74° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R128°/18°C · wind 15 km/h SSW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R227°/18°C · wind 12 km/h SSW, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R331°/22°C · wind 12 km/h SW, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R431°/22°C · wind 15 km/h S, gusts 36 · 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.
139 started, 71 (cut at 143) 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: Liselotte Neumann
The golfer
b. 1960-06-24, Santa Cruz, California, United States; United States; age 39 at the win (year page); 5th 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