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1971 LPGA Championship

Field	Value
name	1971 LPGA Championship
dates	June 10–13, [1971](1971-lpga-tour)
location	Sutton, Massachusetts
course	Pleasant Valley Country Club
tour	LPGA Tour
format	Stroke play – 72 holes
par	73
yardage	6130 yd
field	52 after cut
cut	160 (+14)
purse	$53,000
winners_share	$7,950
champion	USA Kathy Whitworth
score	288 (−4)
previous	[1970](1970-lpga-championship)
next	[1972](1972-lpga-championship)

|USA |USA Massachusetts 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, who won the following year. It was the fifth of Whitworth's six major titles.

Final leaderboard

Sunday, June 13, 1971

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	USA Kathy Whitworth	71-73-70-74=288	−4	7,950
2	USA Kathy Ahern	70-74-73-75=292	E	5,800
T3	USA Jane Blalock	70-74-77-72=293	+1	3,278
CAN Sandra Post Elliott	73-73-75-72=293
USA Sandra Haynie	75-73-71-74=293
6	USA Susie Berning	75-74-74-71=294	+2	2,200
T7	USA Carol Mann	75-77-72-71=295	+3	1,750
USA DeDe Owens	74-76-73-72=295
USA Judy Rankin	77-71-72-75=295
T10	USA Debbie Austin	73-68-79-76=296	+4	1,450
JPN Chako Higuchi	73-75-75-73=296

Source:

References

(June 11, 1971). "Ahern shares 1st round LPGA lead". Spartanburg Herald.
(June 12, 1971). "Debbie Austin sets LPGA pace". Spokesman-Review.
O'Hara, Dave. (June 14, 1971). "Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA as Blalock ties for third". Nashua Telegraph.
(June 14, 1971). "Kathy wins LPGA title". Spokesman-Review.
(June 14, 1971). "LPGA Championships". Eugene Register-Guard.

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