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1957 LPGA Championship

FieldValue
name1957 LPGA Championship
datesJune 6–10, 1957
locationBlackridge, Pennsylvania
courseChurchill Valley Country Club
tourLPGA Tour
formatStroke play – 72 holes
par70
yardage5711 yd
field26 players
cutnone
purse$7,600
winners_share$1,316
championUSA Louise Suggs
score285 (+5)
previous[1956](1956-lpga-championship)
next[1958](1958-lpga-championship)

|USA |USA Pennsylvania The 1957 LPGA Championship was the third LPGA Championship, held June 6–10 at Churchill Valley Country Club in Blackridge, Pennsylvania, a suburb east of Pittsburgh. It concluded on Monday, after rain washed out play on Saturday.

Louise Suggs, president of the LPGA, shot a final round 68 (−2) to win her only LPGA Championship, three strokes ahead of runner-up Wiffi Smith. Defending champion Marlene Hagge and 1955 winner Beverly Hanson finished two strokes behind Smith, in a tie for third. Smith, age 20, led after each of the first three rounds, but carded a 74 (+4) in the final round on Monday. She won eight events on the LPGA Tour in her career, but no majors. It was the tenth of eleven major titles for Suggs.

The field consisted of 26 professionals; a concurrent event for amateurs was also held. The championship returned to Churchill Valley the next year in 1958 and the course hosted its third major the following year, the U.S. Women's Open in 1959. The club closed in 2013.

Final leaderboard

Monday, June 10, 1957

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1USA **Louise Suggs**69-74-74-68=285+51,316
2USA Wiffi Smith68-71-75-74=288+8921
T3USA Marlene Hagge69-75-73-73=290+10698
USA Beverly Hanson75-73-73-69=290
5USA Joyce Ziske71-73-75-74=293+13557
6USA Marilynn Smith76-70-75-73=294+14473
7USA Patty Berg73-72-77-73=295+15404
T8USA Alice Bauer74-71-74-77=296+16303
USA Bonnie Randolph76-76-69-75=296
10USA Kathy Cornelius77-72-73-75=297+17228

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References

References

  1. Gundelfinger, Phil. (June 8, 1957). "Wiffi Smith cards 71, leads LPGA by four". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  2. Gundelfinger, Phil. (June 6, 1957). "Small, select field opens LPGA tourney". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  3. (June 9, 1957). "Third round of Ladies PGA golf postponed". Reading Eagle.
  4. Jordan, Jimmy. (June 11, 1957). "LPGA head had faith in herself". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  5. Gundelfinger, Phil. (June 11, 1957). "Louise Suggs' 285 wins LPGA". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  6. (June 11, 1957). "Suggs wins title in LPGA". Daytona Beach Morning Journal.
  7. (January 25, 2013). "Churchill Valley Country Club sinks into financial hole". Pittsburgh Business Times.
  8. Varine, Patrick. (August 14, 2013). "Churchill Valley Country Club seeks penalty against creditors". Trib Live.
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