1957 LPGA Championship


The 1957 LPGA Championship was the third LPGA Championship, held June 6–10 at Churchill Valley Country Club in Blackridge, Pennsylvania, a suburb east of Pittsburgh. It concluded on Monday, after rain washed out play on Saturday.
Louise Suggs, president of the LPGA, shot a final round 68 to win her only LPGA Championship, three strokes ahead of runner-up Wiffi Smith. Defending champion Marlene Hagge and 1955 winner Beverly Hanson finished two strokes behind Smith, in a tie for third. Smith, age 20, led after each of the first three rounds, but carded a 74 in the final round on Monday. She won eight events on the LPGA Tour in her career, but no majors. It was the tenth of eleven major titles for Suggs.
The field consisted of 26 professionals; a concurrent event for amateurs was also held. The championship returned to Churchill Valley the next year in 1958 and the course hosted its third major the following year, the U.S. Women's Open in 1959.
The club closed in 2013.

Past champions in the field

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Final leaderboard

Monday, June 10, 1957
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Louise Suggs69-74-74-68=285+51,316
2Wiffi Smith68-71-75-74=288+8921
T3Marlene Hagge69-75-73-73=290+10698
T3Beverly Hanson75-73-73-69=290+10698
5Joyce Ziske71-73-75-74=293+13557
6Marilynn Smith76-70-75-73=294+14473
7Patty Berg73-72-77-73=295+15404
T8Alice Bauer74-71-74-77=296+16303
T8Bonnie Randolph76-76-69-75=296+16303
10Kathy Cornelius77-72-73-75=297+17228

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