1970 LPGA Championship


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 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; defending champion Betsy Rawls tied for 26th, 21 strokes back.
This was the third LPGA Championship held at Pleasant Valley in four years, and the third of seven in an eight-year stretch.

Past champions in the field

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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.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
T1Shirley Englehorn70-70-75-70=285−7Playoff
T1Kathy Whitworth69-71-73-72=285−7Playoff
3Sandra Palmer73-72-73-70=288−42,600
4Murle Breer75-71-70-74=290−22,150
5Sharon Miller74-74-72-71=291−11,800
T6JoAnne Carner71-76-70-75=292E1,400
T6Sandra Haynie73-72-72-75=292E1,400
T8Gerda Whalen73-73-73-74=293+11,050
T8Sharron Moran73-71-75-74=293+11,050
T8Marilynn Smith74-69-73-77=293+11,050

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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.
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Shirley Englehorn39-35=74+14,500
2Kathy Whitworth40-38=78+53,410

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