1963 LPGA Championship


The 1963 LPGA Championship was the ninth LPGA Championship, held October 10–13 at Stardust Country Club in Las Vegas, Nevada.
After a second round 82, Mickey Wright shot 70 in both of the final two rounds to win her fourth and final LPGA Championship, two strokes ahead of runners-up Mary Lena Faulk, Mary Mills, and Louise Suggs. Defending champion Judy Kimball finished six strokes back, in a tie for ninth place. It was Wright's second major title of the year and the eleventh of her thirteen career majors. It was her thirteenth tour victory of the 1963 season.
It was the third of six consecutive LPGA Championships at Stardust, which opened two years earlier. After several ownership and name changes, it became Las Vegas National Golf Club in 1998.

Past champions in the field

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Final leaderboard

Sunday, October 13, 1963
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Mickey Wright72-82-70-70=294+102,450
T2Mary Lena Faulk74-78-72-72=296+121,533
T2Mary Mills73-76-75-72=296+121,533
T2Louise Suggs70-78-73-75=296+121,533
5Ruth Jessen77-83-67-71=298+141,030
T6Carol Mann75-75-77-72=299+15770
T6Betsy Rawls74-73-76-76=299+15770
T6Kathy Whitworth75-79-73-72=299+15770
T9Kathy Cornelius73-75-75-77=300+16503
T9Sandra Haynie77-77-75-71=300+16503
T9Judy Kimball73-81-73-73=300+16503
T9Marilynn Smith76-77-71-76=300+16503

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