1970 LPGA Championship | |
Dates: | June 11–15, 1970 |
Course: | Pleasant Valley Country Club |
Tour: | LPGA Tour |
Format: | Stroke play – 72 holes |
Par: | 73 |
Yardage: | 6130yd[1] |
Field: | 67 players |
Cut: | none |
Purse: | $30,000 |
Winners Share: | $4,500 |
Champion: | Shirley Englehorn |
Score: | 285 (−7), playoff |
Previous: | 1969 |
Next: | 1971 |
The 1970 LPGA Championship was the 16th LPGA Championship, held June 11–15 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, southeast of Worcester.
In an 18-hole Monday playoff, Shirley Englehorn won her only major title, defeating 1967 champion Kathy Whitworth by four strokes.[2] Englehorn bogeyed the second hole and parred the rest for a Three years earlier Pleasant Valley, Whitworth had bested Englehorn by a stroke in 1967, after the pair had co-led after 54 holes. It was Englehorn's fourth consecutive victory during the 1970 season;[1] defending champion Betsy Rawls tied for 26th, 21 strokes back.[3]
This was the third LPGA Championship held at Pleasant Valley in four years, and the third of seven in an eight-year stretch.
Sunday June 14, 1970
Whitworth had a four-stroke lead after 58 holes, but Englehorn was four-under on the back nine on Sunday, including a birdie on the final hole to force the Monday playoff.[3] [4]
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |||
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align=center rowspan=2 | T1 | Shirley Englehorn | 70-70-75-70=285 | align=center rowspan=2 | −7 | align=center rowspan=2 | Playoff |
Kathy Whitworth | 69-71-73-72=285 | ||||||
3 | Sandra Palmer | 73-72-73-70=288 | −4 | 2,600 | |||
4 | Murle Breer | 75-71-70-74=290 | −2 | 2,150 | |||
5 | Sharon Miller | 74-74-72-71=291 | −1 | 1,800 | |||
align=center rowspan=2 | T6 | JoAnne Carner | 71-76-70-75=292 | align=center rowspan=2 | E | align=center rowspan=2 | 1,400 |
Sandra Haynie | 73-72-72-75=292 | ||||||
align=center rowspan=3 | T8 | Gerda Whalen | 73-73-73-74=293 | align=center rowspan=3 | +1 | align=center rowspan=3 | 1,050 |
Sharron Moran | 73-71-75-74=293 | ||||||
Marilynn Smith | 74-69-73-77=293 |
Monday, June 15, 1970
No birdies were scored in the playoff: both bogeyed the second hole and Whitworth had another at the ninth to fall one back at the turn. She had a double bogey at the twelfth and dropped three back, while Englehorn had seventeen pars on the way to a one-over 74 for a four-stroke win and the title.[1]
Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Shirley Englehorn | 39-35=74 | +1 | 4,500 | |
2 | Kathy Whitworth | 40-38=78 | +5 | 3,410 |