1948 U.S. Women's Open

The 1948 U.S. Women's Open was the third U.S. Women's Open, held August 12–15 at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, New Jersey.

1948 U.S. Women's Open

Tournament information
Dates	August 12–15, 1948
Location	Northfield, New Jersey
Course(s)	Atlantic City Country Club
Organized by	WPGA
Tour(s)	WPGA
Format	Stroke play – 72 holes
Statistics
Par	75
Length	6,326 yards (5,784 m)[1]
Field	51 players[1]
Prize fund	$7,500 [1]
Winner's share	$1,200
Champion
Babe Zaharias
300 (E)
← 1947 1949 →

Atlantic City 
Country Club

Location in the United States

Babe Zaharias won the first of her three U.S. Women's Open titles, eight strokes ahead of runner-up Betty Hicks.^[2] It was the fifth of ten major championships for Zaharias.

The U.S. Women's Open returned to the course in 1965 and 1975.

Final leaderboard

Sunday, August 15, 1948

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Babe Zaharias	75-72-75-78=300	E	1,200
2	Betty Hicks	84-75-72-77=308	+8	1,000
3	Betty Jameson	79-77-78-78=312	+12	825
T4	Patty Berg	80-78-81-74=313	+13	750
	Grace Lenczyk (a)	79-78-73-83=313		0
T6	Peggy Kirk (a)	74-80-81-80=315	+15	0
	Mary Agnes Wall (a)	79-78-78-80=315
T8	Beverly Hanson (a)	78-81-82-77=318	+18	0
	Mary Mozell	79-77-83-79=318		700
T10	Katherine Hemphill	80-73-83-85=321	+21	550
	Sally Sessions	76-81-79-85=321

Source:^[3]