The 1978 LPGA Championship was the 24th

LPGA Championship The Women's PGA Championship (branded as the KPMG Women's PGA Championship for sponsorship reasons) is a women's professional golf tournament. First held in 1955, it is one of five majors on the LPGA Tour. It is not recognized as a major by the ...

, held June 8–11 at Jack Nicklaus Golf Center at

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, a suburb northeast of

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Nancy Lopez Nancy Marie Lopez (born January 6, 1957) is an American former professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won 48 LPGA Tour events, including three major championships. Amateur career Lopez won the New Mexico Women's ...

, a 21-year-old tour rookie, won the first of her three

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titles, all at the LPGA Championship at Kings Island. She finished at 275 (−13), six strokes ahead of runner-up It was the sixth tour win for Lopez and her fourth consecutive in and she won the following week to run the streak to five. This was the first of twelve consecutive LPGA Championships at Kings Island; the last one in

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was also won by Lopez.

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

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Missed the cut

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Final leaderboard

''Sunday, June 11, 1978'' Source:

References

External links

Golf Observer leaderboardThe Golf Center at Kings Island
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