Golf Network News
Sunday 16 July 1967Women’s majorsYear in Review
Whitworth wins LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton, Massachusetts · Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 July 1967 · purse $17,500 · winner's share $2,625
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 46 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 69° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R126°/18°C · wind 11 km/h SW, gusts 38 · 1.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/19°C · wind 9 km/h S, gusts 23 · 1.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R323°/19°C · wind 13 km/h S, gusts 38 · 7.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R423°/20°C · wind 17 km/h S, gusts 41 · 11.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course 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.
51 started
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Shirley Englehorn
The golfer
b. 1939, Monahans, Texas, United States; United States; age 27 at the win (year page); 3rd 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