The 1991 LPGA Championship was the 37th

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 ...

, played June 27–30 at Bethesda Country Club in

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, a suburb northwest of

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Meg Mallon Meg Mallon (born April 14, 1963) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1987 and won 18 LPGA Tour events, including four major championships, during her career. Mallon was inducted into the World Golf Hall o ...

shot a final round 67 (−4) to win the first of her four

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titles, one stroke ahead of runners-up Pat Bradley and

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. All three were tied for the lead at 207 (−6) after 54 holes, and played in the final grouping on Sunday. They came to the final hole tied at nine under par; all three put their drives in the fairway and had putts for birdie, but only Mallon converted. She won the

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two weeks later. This was the second of four consecutive LPGA Championships at Bethesda Country Club.

Past champions in the field

Made the cut

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Missed the cut

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, 1989) did not play

Final leaderboard

''Sunday, June 30, 1991'' Source:

References

External links

Bethesda Country Club
{{coord, 39.015, -77.152, type:event, display=title Women's PGA Championship Golf in Maryland

Women's sports in Maryland