The Archive · 1938

Miss Patty Berg Yins Title

Mrs. Page Beaten in U.S — Women's Golf Tourney Wilmette, Illinois, Sept. 25 — Miss Patty Berg beat Mrs. Julius

Page by 6 up and 5 to play in the finals of the American Women's Golf ship here today, reversing It was 20-year-old Miss Berg's first championship in three finals. She led by 2 up at the eighteenth hole and by 5.up at the twenty-seventh.

Her brilliant putting won the match for her. At the twenty-eighth hole she made a 15-foot putt to score a birdie three.

Her twenty-ninth was par four, but she lost the thirtieth to Mrs. Page, 6 up and 5 to play. They halved the thirty-first hole, both with birdie threes.—Reuter.

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