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, 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 Whitworth71-73-70-74=288−47,9502 Kathy Ahern70-74-73-75=292E5,800T3 Jane Blalock70-74-77-72=293+13,278 Sandra Post Elliott73-73-75-72=293 Sandra Haynie75-73-71-74=2936 Susie Berning75-74-74-71=294+22,200T7 Carol Mann75-77-72-71=295+31,750 DeDe Owens74-76-73-72=295 Judy Rankin77-71-72-75=295T10 Debbie Austin73-68-79-76=296+41,450 Chako Higuchi73-75-75-73=296 Source:
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External links Golf Observer leaderboard