Dates | June 5–8, 1958 |
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Location | Blackridge, Pennsylvania |
Course(s) | Churchill Valley Country Club |
Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play – 72 holes |
Par | 70 |
Length | 6,025 yards (5,509 m) |
Field | 27 players |
Cut | none |
Prize fund | $7,500 |
Winner's share | $1,247 |
Mickey Wright | |
288 (+8) | |
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The 1958 LPGA Championship was the fourth LPGA Championship, held June 5–8 at Churchill Valley Country Club in Blackridge, Pennsylvania, a suburb east of Pittsburgh.
Mickey Wright, age 23, won the first of her four LPGA Championships, six strokes ahead of runner-up Fay Crocker. It was the first of Wright's thirteen major titles. Defending champion Louise Suggs finished ten strokes back, in a tie for eighth. The field consisted of 27 professionals; a concurrent event for amateurs was also held.
The LPGA Championship was played for a second straight year at Churchill Valley, which hosted its third major the following year, the U.S. Women's Open in 1959. The club closed in 2013.
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Sunday, June 8, 1958
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Coordinates: 40°27′00″N 79°50′42″W / 40.450°N 79.845°W