1948 U.S. Women's Open - Misplaced Pages

Golf tournament

Atlantic City
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The 1948 U.S. Women's Open was the third U.S. Women's Open, held August 12–15 at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, New Jersey.

Babe Zaharias won the first of her three U.S. Women's Open titles, eight strokes ahead of runner-up Betty Hicks. It was the fifth of ten major championships for Zaharias.

The U.S. Women's Open returned to the course in 1965 and 1975.

Final leaderboard

Sunday, August 15, 1948

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Babe Zaharias	75-72-75-78=300	E	1,200
2	Betty Hicks	84-75-72-77=308	+8	1,000
3	Betty Jameson	79-77-78-78=312	+12	825
T4	Patty Berg	80-78-81-74=313	+13	750
T4	Grace Lenczyk (a)	79-78-73-83=313	+13	0
T6	Peggy Kirk (a)	74-80-81-80=315	+15	0
T6	Mary Agnes Wall (a)	79-78-78-80=315	+15	0
T8	Beverly Hanson (a)	78-81-82-77=318	+18	0
T8	Mary Mozell	79-77-83-79=318	+18	700
T10	Katherine Hemphill	80-73-83-85=321	+21	550
T10	Sally Sessions	76-81-79-85=321	+21	550

Source:

^ "Babe Zaharias has stamina going for her in U.S. Open". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. August 12, 1948. p. 31.
"Babe wins Women's Open". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. August 16, 1948. p. 18.
"Babe Zaharias cops National". St. Joseph Gazette. Associated Press. August 16, 1948. p. 7.

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