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1976 U.S. Women's Open

Field	Value
name	1976 U.S. Women's Open
dates	July 8–12, 1976
location	Springfield, Pennsylvania
course	Rolling Green Golf Club
org	USGA
tour	LPGA Tour
par	71
yardage	6066 yd
field
cut
purse	$60,000
winners_share	$9,054
champion	USA JoAnne Carner
score	292 (+8), playoff
previous	1975
next	1977

|USA |USA Pennsylvania The 1976 U.S. Women's Open was the 31st U.S. Women's Open, held July 8–12 at Rolling Green Golf Club in Springfield, Pennsylvania, a suburb west of Philadelphia.

JoAnne Carner, the 1971 champion, won in a Monday playoff over defending champion Sandra Palmer by a score of 76 to 78. The two had tied at 292 (+8), four strokes ahead of Jane Blalock.

Final leaderboard

Sunday, July 11, 1976

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T1	USA JoAnne Carner	71-71-77-73=292	+8	Playoff
USA Sandra Palmer	70-74-73-75=292
3	USA Jane Blalock	75-72-73-76=296	+12	3,454
4	USA Susie McAllister	76-78-70-73=297	+13	2,654
T5	USA Amy Alcott	72-75-78-74=299	+15	2,329
USA Sharon Miller	75-75-77-72=299
7	ARG Silvia Bertolaccini	78-73-74-75=300	+16	2,054
T8	USA Susie Berning	73-76-79-75=303	+19	1,954
USA Betsy King (a)	76-74-76-77=303	0
T10	USA Carole Jo Callison	78-77-72-78=305	+21	1,854
USA Carol Semple (a)	71-77-82-75=305	0
USA Debbie Massey (a)	75-74-74-82=305

(a) = amateur

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Playoff

Monday, July 12, 1976

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	USA JoAnne Carner	76	+5	9,054
2	USA Sandra Palmer	78	+7	5,554

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References

McDermott, Barry. (July 19, 1976). "A mountain of trouble".
Bernstein, Ralph. (July 13, 1976). "Carner earns $9,000 and prestige". Reading Eagle.
(July 13, 1976). "Mrs. Carner wins playoff". Milwaukee Sentinel.
Bernstein, Ralph. (July 12, 1976). "Sandra Palmer cites poor play". Reading Eagle.
(July 12, 1976). "Palmer, Carner vie in Open playoff". Eugene Register-Guard.

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