1968 LPGA Championship: Sandra Post wins at Pleasant Valley Country Club

Sandra Post won the 1968 LPGA Championship at Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton, Massachusetts, United States with 294 (+2), beating Kathy Whitworth in a playoff.

Updated October 23, 2026

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Dates: June 20, 1968 to June 24, 1968
Course: Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton, Massachusetts, United States
Edition: 14th edition
Counted as a major: yes
Format: stroke play, 4 rounds
Par: 73 · 6,130 yards
Field: 50
Purse: $20,000 · winner's share $3,000
Champion: Sandra Post · age 20 · Canada · born Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Champion's title: 1st title at this event · 1st major
Winning score: 72-75-74-73 = 294 (+2)
Runner-up: Kathy Whitworth (294)
54-hole leader: Sandra Post, Kathy Whitworth
Playoff: 18-hole stroke-play playoff (Monday); 18 holes; beat Kathy Whitworth; 18-hole total (Post 68, Whitworth 75)

Winner and runner-up

Pos.	Player	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par
1	Sandra Post	72	75	74	73	294	+2
2	Kathy Whitworth					294

What happened at the 1968 LPGA Championship

Defending champion Kathy Whitworth holed a three-foot putt on the 72nd hole to tie rookie Sandra Post at 294.

Post, 20, won the Monday 18-hole playoff 68 to 75, becoming the event's first non-American champion and the youngest women's major winner to that time.

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).

1968 LPGA Championship: Sandra Post wins at Pleasant Valley Country Club

Winner and runner-up

What happened at the 1968 LPGA Championship

How this was built

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