The 1958 LPGA Championship was the fourth LPGA Championship, held June 5–8 at Churchill Valley Country Club in Blackridge, Pennsylvania, a suburb east of Pittsburgh.
Mickey Wright, age 23, won the first of her four LPGA Championships, six strokes ahead of runner-up Fay Crocker. It was the first of Wright's thirteen major titles. Defending champion Louise Suggs finished ten strokes back, in a tie for ninth. The field consisted of 27 professionals; a concurrent event for amateurs was also held.
The LPGA Championship was played for a second straight year at Churchill Valley, which hosted its third major the following year, the U.S. Women's Open in 1959. The club closed in 2013.
Final leaderboard Sunday, June 8, 1958 Place Player Score To par Money ($)1 Mickey Wright69-69-76-74=288+8 1,2472 Fay Crocker72-75-71-79=294+14 961T3 Peggy Kirk Bell75-75-74-71=295+15581 Jackie Pung76-76-76-67=295 Joyce Ziske76-74-75-70=295 Betty Jameson75-72-74-74=2957 Kathy Cornelius71-75-75-75=296+16 3748 Mary Lena Faulk74-74-74-75=297+17 338T9 Ruth Jessen74-75-76-73=298+18 255 Marilynn Smith71-77-72-78=298 Louise Suggs76-74-72-76=298 Source:
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