1964 LPGA Championship | |
Dates: | October 1–4, 1964 |
Location: | Las Vegas, Nevada |
Course: | Stardust Country Club |
Tour: | LPGA Tour |
Format: | Stroke play – 72 holes |
Par: | 71 |
Field: | 47 players |
Cut: | none |
Purse: | $16,500 |
Winners Share: | $2,450 |
Champion: | Mary Mills |
Score: | 278 (−6) |
Previous: | 1963 |
Next: | 1965 |
The 1964 LPGA Championship was the tenth LPGA Championship, held October 1–4 at Stardust Country Club in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mary Mills shot a final round 69 (−2) to win the first of her two LPGA Championships, two strokes ahead runner-up Mickey Wright, the defending champion and 54-hole leader.[1] [2] The total of 278 set a record for the championship which stood until 1978; it was the second of three career majors for Mills.[3]
It was the fourth of six consecutive LPGA Championships at Stardust, which opened three years earlier. After several ownership and name changes, it became Las Vegas National Golf Club in 1998.[4]
Sunday, October 4, 1964
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |||
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1 | Mary Mills | 68-69-72-69=278 | −6 | 2,450 | |||
2 | Mickey Wright | 72-68-67-73=280 | −4 | 1,900 | |||
align=center rowspan=2 | T3 | Jo Ann Prentice | 71-68-71-71=281 | align=center rowspan=2 | −3 | align=center rowspan=2 | 1,350 |
Kathy Whitworth | 73-69-70-69=281 | ||||||
align=center rowspan=2 | T5 | Sandra Haynie | 69-69-71-73=282 | align=center rowspan=2 | −2 | align=center rowspan=2 | 960 |
Betsy Rawls | 73-71-70-68=282 | ||||||
7 | Ruth Jessen | 71-69-73-70=283 | −1 | 760 | |||
align=center rowspan=2 | T8 | Shirley Englehorn | 71-72-71-70=284 | align=center rowspan=2 | E | align=center rowspan=2 | 615 |
Marlene Hagge | 67-74-69-74=284 | ||||||
10 | Clifford Ann Creed | 74-74-70-69=287 | +3 | 520 |