1962 LPGA Championship: Judy Kimball wins at Stardust Country Club

Judy Kimball won the 1962 LPGA Championship at Stardust Country Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States with 282 (−2), by 4 strokes over Shirley Spork.

Updated October 23, 2026

Every year is on the KPMG Women's PGA Championship winners list.

Dates: October 4, 1962 to October 7, 1962
Course: Stardust Country Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Edition: 8th edition
Counted as a major: yes
Format: stroke play, 4 rounds
Par: 71 · 6,000 yards
Field: 30
Purse: $15,000 · winner's share $2,300
Champion: Judy Kimball · age 24 · United States · born Sioux City, Iowa, United States
Champion's title: 1st title at this event · 1st major
Winning score: 70-69-71-72 = 282 (−2) · won by 4 strokes
Runner-up: Shirley Spork (286)
54-hole leader: Judy Kimball

Winner and runner-up

Pos.	Player	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par
1	Judy Kimball	70	69	71	72	282	−2
2	Shirley Spork					286

What happened at the 1962 LPGA Championship

Judy Kimball, 24, led wire-to-wire and beat Shirley Spork by four strokes for her only major title.

Kimball's 282 set a championship scoring record, three better than Louise Suggs's 285 in 1957, while two-time defending champion Mickey Wright finished eighth, 13 strokes back.

How this was built

Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's KPMG Women's PGA Championship 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).

1962 LPGA Championship: Judy Kimball wins at Stardust Country Club

Winner and runner-up

What happened at the 1962 LPGA Championship

How this was built

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