Tournament information | |
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Dates | April 2–5, 1987 |
Location | Rancho Mirage, California |
Course(s) |
Mission Hills Country Club (Dinah Shore Tourn. Course) |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play – 72 holes |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,292 yards (5,753 m) [1] [2] |
Field | 67 after cut [3] |
Cut | 154 (+10) |
Prize fund | $500,000 |
Winner's share | $80,000 |
Champion | |
Betsy King | |
283 (−5), playoff | |
The 1987 Nabisco Dinah Shore was a women's professional golf tournament, held April 2–5 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. This was the 16th edition of the Nabisco Dinah Shore, and the fifth as a major championship.
Betsy King won the first of her six major titles in a sudden-death playoff over Patty Sheehan, with a par on the second extra hole. [4] [5] [6] [7] King entered the final round as co-leader at 215 (−1) with defending champion Pat Bradley, [8] who finished a stroke back in solo third.
King won this event two more times, in 1990 and 1997.
Sunday, April 5, 1987
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ( $) |
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T1 | Betsy King | 68-75-72-68=283 | −5 | Playoff |
Patty Sheehan | 77-73-68-65=283 | |||
3 | Pat Bradley | 72-74-69-69=284 | −4 | 26,000 |
4 | Rosie Jones | 72-73-72-68=285 | −3 | 19,890 |
T5 | Christa Johnson | 72-79-66-70=287 | −1 | 15,870 |
Ayako Okamoto | 71-76-71-69=287 | |||
Colleen Walker | 72-74-73-68=287 | |||
T8 | Jane Geddes | 73-77-67-71=288 | E | 11,850 |
Cathy Gerring | 72-75-71-70=288 | |||
10 | Jody Rosenthal | 72-72-75-70=289 | +1 | 10,054 |
On the first extra hole (#15), King hit her tee shot into the rough and then scrambled for par, while Sheehan missed a birdie putt. At #16, Sheehan again had a birdie opportunity, but three-putted from fifteen feet (4.5 m) while King sank a three-footer for par to win.
Place | Player | Money ($) |
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1 | Betsy King | 80,000 |
2 | Patty Sheehan | 42,000 |
Hole | 15 | 16 |
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Par | 4 | 4 |
King | 4 | 4 |
Sheehan | 4 | 5 |
Birdie | Bogey |