1992 LPGA Championship
Tournament information | |
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Dates | May 14–17, 1992 |
Location | Bethesda, Maryland |
Course(s) | Bethesda Country Club |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play - 72 holes |
Statistics | |
Par | 71 |
Length | 6,272 yards (5,735 m)[1] |
Cut | 147 (+5) |
Prize fund | $1.0 million |
Winner's share | $150,000 |
Champion | |
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267 (−17) | |
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Bethesda
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Bethesda
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Location in MarylandThe 1992 LPGA Championship was the 38th LPGA Championship, played May 14–17 at Bethesda Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb northwest of Washington, D.C.
Betsy King won the fifth of her six major titles, eleven strokes ahead of runners-up JoAnne Carner, Liselotte Neumann, and Karen Noble.[2] She led by five strokes after 54 holes,[3] and her victory margin was the largest to date, passing Patty Sheehan's ten-stroke win in 1984,[2] and it stood until 2010. King was the first to card all four rounds in the sixties in an LPGA major;[2] it was her only win at the LPGA Championship.
This was the third of four consecutive LPGA Championships at Bethesda Country Club.
Past champions in the field[]
Player | Country | Year(s) won | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | To par | Finish |
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Patty Sheehan | ![]() |
1983, 1984 | 71 | 70 | 69 | 70 | 280 | −4 | T7 |
Jan Stephenson | ![]() |
1982 | 69 | 71 | 70 | 73 | 283 | −1 | T12 |
Pat Bradley | ![]() |
1986 | 70 | 71 | 74 | 69 | 284 | E | T15 |
Nancy Lopez | ![]() |
1978, 1985, 1989 | 72 | 69 | 72 | 72 | 285 | +1 | T18 |
Jane Geddes | ![]() |
1987 | 69 | 72 | 71 | 74 | 286 | +2 | T22 |
Meg Mallon | ![]() |
1991 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 71 | 287 | +3 | T26 |
Beth Daniel | ![]() |
1990 | 73 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 289 | +5 | T35 |
Sherri Turner | ![]() |
1988 | 77 | 68 | 75 | 73 | 293 | +9 | T52 |
Sally Little | ![]() |
1980 | 70 | 76 | 74 | 74 | 294 | +10 | T59 |
Final leaderboard[]
Sunday, May 17, 1992
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money ($) |
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1 | Betsy King | ![]() |
68-66-67-66=267 | −17 | 150,000 |
T2 | JoAnne Carner | ![]() |
71-66-70-71=278 | −6 | 71,287 |
Liselotte Neumann | ![]() |
71-68-70-69=278 | |||
Karen Noble | ![]() |
73-70-70-65=278 | |||
T5 | Helen Alfredsson | ![]() |
69-69-68-73=279 | −5 | 38,998 |
Dottie Pepper | ![]() |
71-73-68-67=279 | |||
T7 | Alice Ritzman | ![]() |
68-71-71-70=280 | −4 | 27,928 |
Patty Sheehan | ![]() |
71-70-69-70=280 | |||
9 | Juli Inkster | ![]() |
70-71-66-74=281 | −3 | 23,651 |
T10 | Amy Alcott | ![]() |
69-69-73-71=282 | −2 | 20,128 |
Brandie Burton | ![]() |
68-73-70-71=282 |
References[]
- ^ a b c "LPGA Championship". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. (Florida). May 18, 1992. p. 2C.
- ^ a b c d e "King coasts to LPGA win". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. May 18, 1992. p. 2B.
- ^ "King tries to lap field at LPGA". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Washington Post). May 17, 1992. p. 10C.
- ^ a b "KPMG Women's PGA Championship (LPGA Championship)". LPGA. 1992. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
External links[]
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