1958 LPGA Championship | |
Dates: | June 5–8, 1958 |
Location: | Blackridge, Pennsylvania |
Course: | Churchill Valley Country Club |
Tour: | LPGA Tour |
Format: | Stroke play – 72 holes |
Par: | 70 |
Yardage: | [1] |
Field: | 27 players |
Cut: | none |
Purse: | $7,500 |
Winners Share: | $1,247 |
Champion: | Mickey Wright |
Score: | 288 (+8) |
Previous: | 1957 |
Next: | 1959 |
The 1958 LPGA Championship was the fourth LPGA Championship, held June 5–8 at Churchill Valley Country Club in Blackridge, Pennsylvania, a suburb east of Pittsburgh.
Mickey Wright, age 23, won the first of her four LPGA Championships, six strokes ahead of runner-up Fay Crocker.[2] It was the first of Wright's thirteen major titles. Defending champion Louise Suggs finished ten strokes back, in a tie for ninth. The field consisted of 27 professionals; a concurrent event for amateurs was also held.[2]
The LPGA Championship was played for a second straight year at Churchill Valley, which hosted its third major the following year, the U.S. Women's Open in 1959. The club closed in 2013.[3] [4]
Sunday, June 8, 1958
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mickey Wright | 69-69-76-74=288 | +8 | 1,247 |
2 | Fay Crocker | 72-75-71-79=294 | +14 | 961 |
T3 | Peggy Kirk Bell | 75-75-74-71=295 | +15 | 581 |
Jackie Pung | 76-76-76-67=295 | |||
Joyce Ziske | 76-74-75-70=295 | |||
Betty Jameson | 75-72-74-74=295 | |||
7 | Kathy Cornelius | 71-75-75-75=296 | +16 | 374 |
8 | Mary Lena Faulk | 74-74-74-75=297 | +17 | 338 |
T9 | Ruth Jessen | 74-75-76-73=298 | +18 | 255 |
Marilynn Smith | 71-77-72-78=298 | |||
Louise Suggs | 76-74-72-76=298 |