1967 U.S. Women's Open: Catherine Lacoste wins at Virginia Hot Springs Golf & Tennis Club (Cascades Course)
Catherine Lacoste (an amateur) won the 1967 U.S. Women's Open at Virginia Hot Springs Golf & Tennis Club (Cascades Course), Hot Springs, Virginia, United States with 294 (+10), by 2 strokes over Susie Maxwell Berning and Beth Stone.
Updated October 23, 2026
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- Dates
- June 29, 1967 to July 2, 1967
- Course
- Virginia Hot Springs Golf & Tennis Club (Cascades Course), Hot Springs, Virginia, United States
- Edition
- 22nd edition
- Counted as a major
- yes
- Format
- stroke play, 4 rounds
- Par
- 71 · 6,191 yards
- Entries
- 98
- Field
- 94
- Made the cut
- 42 (cut at 159)
- Purse
- $25,000
- Champion
- Catherine Lacoste · age 22 · France · amateur · born Paris, France
- Champion's title
- 1st title at this event · 1st major
- Winning score
- 71-70-74-79 = 294 (+10) · won by 2 strokes
- Runners-up
- Susie Maxwell Berning, Beth Stone (296 each)
- 54-hole leader
- Catherine Lacoste (a)
- Low amateur
- Catherine Lacoste (294)
- Run by
- United States Golf Association
Winner and runners-up
| Pos. | Player | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catherine Lacoste | 71 | 70 | 74 | 79 | 294 | +10 |
| T2 | Susie Maxwell | 71 | 75 | 76 | 74 | 296 | +12 |
| T2 | Beth Stone | 75 | 76 | 71 | 74 | 296 | +12 |
What happened at the 1967 U.S. Women's Open
Amateur Catherine Lacoste, daughter of French tennis star René Lacoste, led by five strokes after 36 and 54 holes and by seven early in the final round before bogeys cut her lead to one.
Lacoste birdied the 17th and parred the 18th to finish a closing 79, tied for the highest final round by a champion, and win by two as the only amateur ever to take the title.
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's U.S. Women's Open data. A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the organizer's own record is used.
Data: womens-golf-majors_dataset_2026-10-20.json (GNN's women's majors research set, "master" row for this year, research dated October 20, 2026).
Also from GNN's U.S. Women's Open set (entries, runners-up round by round, values the majors set does not hold).
Sources
- usga.org: 26USWomensOpen
- Wikipedia: 1967 U.S. Women's Open
- Wikipedia: U.S. Women's Open
- Wikipedia: Catherine Lacoste
- golfcompendium.com: 1967 us womens open
- usga.org: u s women s open results 1946 to present
- golfcompendium.com: low amateurs us womens open
- where2golf.com: catherine lacoste
- vault.si.com: but papa i played like a clod
- thegolfnewsnet.com: us womens open history results and past winners 126262
- Wikipedia: 1967 LPGA Tour