Sutton is located in the United States
Location in the United States
Pleasant Valley Country Club  is located in Massachusetts
Location in Massachusetts

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

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)
1United States Kathy Whitworth71-73-70-74=288−47,950
2United States Kathy Ahern70-74-73-75=292E5,800
T3United States Jane Blalock70-74-77-72=293+13,278
Canada Sandra Post Elliott73-73-75-72=293
United States Sandra Haynie75-73-71-74=293
6United States Susie Berning75-74-74-71=294+22,200
T7United States Carol Mann75-77-72-71=295+31,750
United States DeDe Owens74-76-73-72=295
United States Judy Rankin77-71-72-75=295
T10United States Debbie Austin73-68-79-76=296+41,450
Japan Chako Higuchi73-75-75-73=296

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