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1970 LPGA Championship

Field	Value
name	1970 LPGA Championship
dates	June 11–15, [1970](1970-lpga-tour)
location	Sutton, Massachusetts
course	Pleasant Valley Country Club
tour	LPGA Tour
format	Stroke play – 72 holes
par	73
yardage	6130 yd
field	67 players
cut	none
purse	$30,000
winners_share	$4,500
champion	USA Shirley Englehorn
score	285 (−7), playoff
previous	[1969](1969-lpga-championship)
next	[1971](1971-lpga-championship)

|USA |USA Massachusetts 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. Englehorn bogeyed the second hole and parred the rest for a 74 (+1). 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;

This was the third LPGA Championship held at Pleasant Valley in four years, and the third of seven in an eight-year stretch.

Final leaderboard

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.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	USA Shirley Englehorn	70-70-75-70=285	−7	Playoff
USA Kathy Whitworth	69-71-73-72=285
3	USA Sandra Palmer	73-72-73-70=288	−4	2,600
4	USA Murle Breer	75-71-70-74=290	−2	2,150
5	USA Sharon Miller	74-74-72-71=291	−1	1,800
T6	USA JoAnne Carner	71-76-70-75=292	E	1,400
USA Sandra Haynie	73-72-72-75=292
T8	FRG Gerda Whalen	73-73-73-74=293	+1	1,050
USA Sharron Moran	73-71-75-74=293
USA Marilynn Smith	74-69-73-77=293

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Playoff

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.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	USA Shirley Englehorn	39-35=74	+1	4,500
2	USA Kathy Whitworth	40-38=78	+5	3,410

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References

(June 16, 1970). "Shirley Englehorn wins playoff easily". Spokesman-Review.
(June 16, 1970). "Englehorn wins LPGA golf crown". Eugene Register-Guard.
(June 16, 1970). "Miss Englehorn wins Open golf". Lewiston Morning Tribune.
(June 15, 1970). "Shirley forces LPGA showdown". Spokesman-Review.
(June 15, 1970). "Playoff needed in women's PGA". Lewiston Morning Tribune.

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