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Sunday 13 June 1971Women’s majorsYear in Review
Whitworth wins Eve-LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton, Massachusetts · Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 June 1971 · purse $53,000 · winner's share $7,950
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 03 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 71° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R123°/11°C · wind 15 km/h NNW, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R224°/9°C · wind 13 km/h WNW, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R326°/12°C · wind 14 km/h W, gusts 30 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R424°/16°C · wind 11 km/h NNE, gusts 27 · 0.6 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.
, 52 (cut at 160) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's major
Eve-LPGA Championship
Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Kathy Ahern
The golfer
b. 1939, Monahans, Texas, United States; United States; age 31 at the win (year page); 5th 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