Golf Network News
Sunday 9 June 2002Women’s majorsYear in Review
Pak wins McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by AIG
DuPont Country Club, Wilmington, Delaware · Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 June 2002 · purse $1,500,000 · winner's share $225,000
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 45 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 73° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R130°/16°C · wind 16 km/h WNW, gusts 55 · 33.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R222°/14°C · wind 24 km/h NNE, gusts 60 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R324°/13°C · wind 13 km/h SE, gusts 25 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R427°/14°C · wind 14 km/h SW, gusts 29 · 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.
144 started, 71 (cut at 150) made it
Same week
Women's major
McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by AIG
DuPont Country Club, Wilmington
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Beth Daniel
The golfer
b. 1977-09-28, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; Republic of Korea; age 24 at the win (year page); 4th 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