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1949 U.S. Women's Open

Golf Championship

Field	Value
name	1949 U.S. Women's Open
dates	September 22–25, 1949
location	Landover, Maryland
course	Prince George's Country Club
format	Stroke play – 72 holes
par	75
yardage	6892 yd
winners_share	$1,500
champion	USA Louise Suggs
score	291 (−9)
previous	[1948](1948-u-s-women-s-open)
next	[1950](1950-u-s-women-s-open)

|USA Country Club 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 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/08/AR2010100806402.html

Final leaderboard

Sunday, September 25, 1949

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

References

(September 23, 1949). "Suggs fires 69 for Open lead". St. Petersburg Times.
(September 26, 1949). "Louise Suggs is new golf queen". Free Lance-Star.

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