1977 LPGA Championship
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The 1977 LPGA Championship was the 23rd LPGA Championship, played June 9–12, 1977 at the Gold Course of Bay Tree Golf Plantation in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Chako Higuchi won her only major title, three strokes ahead of runners-up Pat Bradley, Sandra Post, and Judy Rankin.
The purse was nearly tripled this year to $150,000, up from $55,000 in 1976.
It was the first golf major to be held in South Carolina. The Bay Tree Golf Plantation courses were closed and abandoned in 2006. Since then, the Senior PGA Championship (2007), PGA Championship (2012, 2021, 2031) (all at Kiawah Island Golf Resort's The Ocean Course), and the U.S. Women's Open (2019, Country Club of Charleston) have been held or are scheduled to be conducted in the state, with all four in the Charleston market.
Final leaderboard
Sunday, June 12, 1977
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan Chako Higuchi | 71-67-72-69=279 | −9 | 22,500 |
| T2 | United States Pat Bradley | 71-71-68-72=282 | −6 | 10,953 |
| Canada Sandra Post | 72-72-69-69=282 | |||
| United States Judy Rankin | 68-73-69-72=282 | |||
| T5 | United States JoAnne Carner | 71-77-70-65=283 | −5 | 5,715 |
| United States Joyce Kazmierski | 69-76-71-67=283 | |||
| T7 | Argentina Silvia Bertolaccini | 75-69-70-70=284 | −4 | 4,376 |
| United States Donna Caponi Young | 77-67-73-67=284 | |||
| United States Sandra Palmer | 72-71-71-70=284 | |||
| 10 | United States Kathy Whitworth | 73-70-71-72=286 | E | 3,170 |
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