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United States Women's Open Information
"The United States Women's Open was added to the USGA's roster of championships in 1953, 58 years after the first U.S. Women's Amateur. In 1946, the short-lived Women's Professional Golfers Association introduced the U.S. Women's Open as a match play competition at the Spokane Country Club. The Spokane Athletic Round Table, a men's fraternal organization, contributed the $19,700 purse from slot machine proceeds. The LPGA ran the U.S. Women's Open for four years, but in 1953 asked the USGA to conduct the Championship. The first U.S. Women's Open under the USGA flag was played at the Country Club of Rochester, in upstate New York, where Betsy Rawls won the second of her four U.S. Women's Open titles. In its 57-year history, the U.S. Women's Open has reigned as the world's greatest women's championship, attracting steadily increasing numbers of entries and spectators. Whereas only 37 contestants played in 1953, in 1976 the field jumped to 205 players and sectional qualifying was introduced. In 2001, a record 980-entries were received. Six of the last twelve champions have been foreign-born, whereas only four of the first 40 champions were foreign-born. Its emergence as a great international contest came in 1987, when England's Laura Davies prevailed in an 18-hole playoff against Japan's Ayako Okamoto and America's JoAnne Gunderson Carner." |
