Dates June 5–8, 1958 | Tour(s) LPGA Tour Par 70 | |
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Course(s) Churchill Valley Country Club |
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.
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Mickey Wright, age 23, won the first of her four LPGA Championships, six strokes ahead of runner-up Fay Crocker. It was the first of Wright's thirteen major titles. Defending champion Louise Suggs finished ten strokes back, in a tie for eighth. The field consisted of 27 professionals; a concurrent event for amateurs was also held.
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.
Past champions in the field
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Final leaderboard
Sunday, June 8, 1958
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References
1958 LPGA Championship Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA