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1971 LPGA Championship
Tournament information
Dates	June 10–13, 1971
Location	Sutton, Massachusetts
Course(s)	Pleasant Valley Country Club
Tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Format	Stroke play – 72 holes
Statistics
Par	73
Length	6,130 yards (5,605 m)
Field	52 after cut
Cut	160 (+14)
Prize fund	$53,000
Winner's share	$7,950
Champion
	Kathy Whitworth
	288 (−4)
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Sutton

Location in the United States

Pleasant Valley Country Club

The 1971 LPGA Championship was the 17th LPGA Championship, held June 10–13 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, southeast of Worcester.

Kathy Whitworth, the 1967 champion, won the second of her three LPGA Championship titles, four strokes ahead of runner-up Kathy Ahern,^[3]^[4] who won the following year. It was the fifth of Whitworth's six major titles.

Final leaderboard

Sunday, June 13, 1971

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Kathy Whitworth	71-73-70-74=288	−4	7,950
2	Kathy Ahern	70-74-73-75=292	E	5,800
T3	Jane Blalock	70-74-77-72=293	+1	3,278
	Sandra Post Elliott	73-73-75-72=293
	Sandra Haynie	75-73-71-74=293
6	Susie Berning	75-74-74-71=294	+2	2,200
T7	Carol Mann	75-77-72-71=295	+3	1,750
	DeDe Owens	74-76-73-72=295
	Judy Rankin	77-71-72-75=295
T10	Debbie Austin	73-68-79-76=296	+4	1,450
T10	Chako Higuchi	73-75-75-73=296	+4	1,450

Source:^[4]^[5]

^ "Ahern shares 1st round LPGA lead". Spartanburg Herald. (South Carolina). Associated Press. June 11, 1971. p. B3.
^ "Debbie Austin sets LPGA pace". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. June 12, 1971. p. 12.
^ O'Hara, Dave (June 14, 1971). "Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA as Blalock ties for third". Nashua Telegraph. (New Hampshire). Associated Press. p. 19.
^ ^a ^b "Kathy wins LPGA title". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. June 14, 1971. p. 13.
^ "LPGA Championships". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. June 14, 1971. p. 5B.