Golf Network News
Monday 10 June 1957Women’s majorsYear in Review
Suggs wins LPGA Championship
Churchill Valley Country Club, Blackridge, Pennsylvania · Thursday 6 to Monday 10 June 1957 · purse $7,600 · winner's share $1,316
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
14 h 50 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 73° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R128°/13°C · wind 12 km/h SSW, gusts 32 · 1.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R223°/16°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 40 · 2.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/10°C · wind 15 km/h E, gusts 37 · 18.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R422°/10°C · wind 16 km/h ESE, gusts 41 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R526°/12°C · wind 12 km/h SE, gusts 28 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- LPGA Championship
- Eve-LPGA Championship
- Mazda LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by AIG
- McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola
- LPGA Championship presented by Wegmans
- Wegmans LPGA Championship
- KPMG Women's PGA Championship
1955–2026 in our record, 72 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
26 started
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
LPGA Championship
Churchill Valley Country Club, Pittsburgh
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Wiffi Smith
The golfer
b. 1923-09-07, Atlanta, Georgia, United States; United States; age 33 at the win (year page); 10th major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet