| 1971 LPGA Championship | |
| Dates: | June 10–13, 1971 |
| Course: | Pleasant Valley Country Club |
| Tour: | LPGA Tour |
| Format: | Stroke play – 72 holes |
| Par: | 73 |
| Yardage: | 6130yd[1] |
| Field: | 52 after cut[2] |
| Cut: | 160 (+14) |
| Purse: | $53,000 |
| Winners Share: | $7,950 |
| Champion: |  Kathy Whitworth |
| Score: | 288 (−4) |
| Previous: | 1970 |
| Next: | 1972 |
The 1971 LPGA Championship was the 17th LPGA Championship, held June 10–13 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, southeast of Worcester.
Kathy Whitworth, the 1967 champion, won the second of her three LPGA Championship titles, four strokes ahead of runner-up Kathy Ahern,[3] [4] who won the following year. It was the fifth of Whitworth's six major titles.
Sunday, June 13, 1971
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kathy Whitworth | 71-73-70-74=288 | −4 | 7,950 | |||
| 2 | Kathy Ahern | 70-74-73-75=292 | E | 5,800 | |||
| align=center rowspan=3 | T3 | Jane Blalock | 70-74-77-72=293 | align=center rowspan=3 | +1 | align=center rowspan=3 | 3,278 |
 Sandra Post Elliott | 73-73-75-72=293 | ||||||
| Sandra Haynie | 75-73-71-74=293 | ||||||
| 6 | Susie Berning | 75-74-74-71=294 | +2 | 2,200 | |||
| align=center rowspan=3 | T7 | Carol Mann | 75-77-72-71=295 | align=center rowspan=3 | +3 | align=center rowspan=3 | 1,750 |
| DeDe Owens | 74-76-73-72=295 | ||||||
| Judy Rankin | 77-71-72-75=295 | ||||||
| align=center rowspan=2 | T10 | Debbie Austin | 73-68-79-76=296 | align=center rowspan=2 | +4 | align=center rowspan=2 | 1,450 |
 Chako Higuchi | 73-75-75-73=296 |