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Golf Championship

Golf tournament

1949 U.S. Women's Open
Tournament information
Dates	September 22–25, 1949
Location	Landover, Maryland
Course(s)	Prince George's Country Club
Format	Stroke play – 72 holes
Statistics
Par	75
Length	6,892 yards (6,302 m)
Winner's share	$1,500
Champion
Louise Suggs
291 (−9)
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Prince Georges
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The 1949 U.S. Women's Open was the fourth U.S. Women's Open, held September 22–25 at Prince George's Country Club in Landover, Maryland, a suburb east of Washington, D.C.

Louise Suggs led wire-to-wire and won the first of her two U.S. Women's Open titles, fourteen strokes ahead of runner-up Babe Zaharias, the defending champion. It was the fourth of eleven major championships for Suggs.

The course no longer exists and is now the site of Kentland Community Center Park.

Final leaderboard

Sunday, September 25, 1949

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Louise Suggs	69-75-77-70=291	−9	1,500
2	Babe Zaharias	74-76-75-80=305	+5	1,000
3	Carol Diringer (a)	75-76-77-78=306	+6	0
T4	Patty Berg	73-84-78-75=310	+10	800
T4	Dot Kielty (a)	74-83-76-77=310	+10	0
T6	Marlene Bauer (a)	75-78-78-80=311	+11	0
	Beverly Hanson (a)	72-81-75-83=311
	Mae-Murray Jones (a)	78-78-79-76=311
	Frances Stephens (a)	75-81-80-75=311
10	Polly Riley (a)	75-83-79-75=312	+12	0

References

^ "Suggs fires 69 for Open lead". St. Petersburg Times. Associated Press. September 23, 1949. p. 27.
"Louise Suggs is new golf queen". Free Lance-Star. Fredericksburg, Virginia. Associated Press. September 26, 1949. p. 6.
Kelly, John (October 8, 2010). "Old Beaver Dam golf course couldn't hold back development". Washington Post. Retrieved June 24, 2014.

External links

USGA final leaderboard
U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship
U.S. Women's Open – past champions – 1949

v t e 1949 Women's Major Golf Championships
Titleholders Championship Women's Western Open U.S. Women's Open

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