The 1987 Nabisco Dinah Shore was a women's professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
tournament, held April 2–5 at
Mission Hills Country Club
The Mission Hills Country Club is a country club in the western United States, located in Rancho Mirage, California, southeast of Palm Springs.
Overview
Among the facilities at the club are 3 championship golf courses (54 holes), 27 tennis court ...
in
Rancho Mirage, California
Rancho Mirage is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 17,218 at the 2010 census, up from 13,249 at the 2000 census, but the seasonal (part-time) population can exceed 20,000. Incorporated in 1973 and locate ...
. This was the 16th edition of the
Nabisco Dinah Shore, and the fifth as a
major championship.
Betsy King
:''Betsy King was also a childhood name for Lizzie Lloyd King.''
Betsy King (born August 13, 1955) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won six major championships and 34 LPGA Tour victories in a ...
won the first of her six major titles in a
sudden-death playoff over
Patty Sheehan
Patty Sheehan (born October 27, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Sheehan also ...
, with a par on the second King entered the final round as co-leader at with
defending champion Pat Bradley,
who finished a stroke back in solo third.
King won this event two more times, in
1990
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and
1997
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.
Final leaderboard
''Sunday, April 5, 1987''
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Playoff
On the first extra hole (#15), King hit her tee shot into the rough and then scrambled for par, while Sheehan missed a birdie putt.
At #16, Sheehan again had a birdie opportunity, but three-putted from while King sank a three-footer for par to win.
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Scorecard
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References
External links
Golf Observer leaderboard
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Chevron Championship
Golf in California
Nabisco Dinah Shore
Nabisco Dinah Shore
Nabisco Dinah Shore
Nabisco Dinah Shore
Women's sports in California