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1977 LPGA Championship

Field	Value
name	1977 LPGA Championship
dates	June 9–12, [1977](1977-lpga-tour)
location	North Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina
course	Bay Tree Golf Plantation
Gold Course
tour	LPGA Tour
format	Stroke play – 72 holes
par	72
yardage	6074 yd
field	99 players, 64 after cut
cut	154 (+10)
purse	$150,000
winners_share	$22,500
champion	JPN Chako Higuchi
score	287 (−5)
previous	[1976](1976-lpga-championship)
next	[1978](1978-lpga-championship)

South Carolina Gold Course |USA |USA South Carolina The 1977 LPGA Championship was the 23rd LPGA Championship, played June 9–12, 1977 at the Gold Course of Bay Tree Golf Plantation in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Chako Higuchi won her only major title, three strokes ahead of runners-up Pat Bradley, Sandra Post, and Judy Rankin.

The purse was nearly tripled this year to $150,000, up from $55,000 in 1976.

It was the first golf major to be held in South Carolina. The Bay Tree Golf Plantation courses were closed and abandoned in 2006. Since then, the Senior PGA Championship (2007), PGA Championship (2012, 2021, 2031) (all at Kiawah Island Golf Resort's The Ocean Course), and the U.S. Women's Open (2019, Country Club of Charleston) have been held or are scheduled to be conducted in the state, with all four in the Charleston market.

Final leaderboard

Sunday, June 12, 1977

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	JPN Chako Higuchi	71-67-72-69=279	−9	22,500
T2	USA Pat Bradley	71-71-68-72=282	−6	10,953
CAN Sandra Post	72-72-69-69=282
USA Judy Rankin	68-73-69-72=282
T5	USA JoAnne Carner	71-77-70-65=283	−5	5,715
USA Joyce Kazmierski	69-76-71-67=283
T7	ARG Silvia Bertolaccini	75-69-70-70=284	−4	4,376
USA Donna Caponi Young	77-67-73-67=284
USA Sandra Palmer	72-71-71-70=284
10	USA Kathy Whitworth	73-70-71-72=286	E	3,170

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References

Timms, Leslie. (June 10, 1977). "Little, Kazmierski tied at the top". Spartanburg Herald.
Timms, Leslie. (June 13, 1977). "Higuchi has 69 to rule LPGA". Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
(June 13, 1977). "All Japan cheers for Chako Higuchi". Spokesman-Review.
Gaillard, Luther. (October 30, 1976). "LPGA Championship officially announced with $150,000 purse". Spartanburg Herald.
Leslie, Jacques. (March 13, 2014). "Fairway to heaven: What happens to an abandoned golf course". Salon.
Spring, Jake. (April 4, 2010). "Golf courses caught in crossfire after real estate goes bust". Myrtle Beach Online.

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