1998 LPGA Championship

August 2023 September 2026 1998 LPGA Championship May 14–17, 1998 Wilmington, Delaware DuPont Country Club LPGA Tour 71 6386 ydhttps://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jtpOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oh4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110%2C1265463 Wilmington Morning Star North Carolina LPGA Championship: final scores May 18, 1998 4C 139 players, 72 after cut Stroke play - 72 holes 146 (+4) $1.3 million $195,000 KOR Se Ri Pak 273 (−11) 1997 1999 USA#USA Delaware DuPont CC Location in United States##Location in Delaware yes 39.789 -75.564 The 1998 LPGA Championship was the 44th LPGA Championship, played May 14–17 at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware. This was the second of four major championships on the LPGA Tour in 1998. Twenty-year-old rookie Se Ri Pak led wire-to-wire to win the first of her five majors, three strokes ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Lisa Hackney.https://www.si.com/vault/1998/05/25/243639/the-whole-pak-age-twenty-year-old-se-ri-pak-of-south-korea-staked-a-claim-on-the-future-with-a-victory-at-the-lpga-championship Sports Illustrated Diaz Jaime The whole Pak-age May 25, 1998 G3https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jtpOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oh4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6598%2C1271337 Wilmington Morning Star North Carolina Associated Press Upstart surprises LPGA field with 1st major title May 18, 1998 5C Less than two months later, Pak won the next major, the U.S. Women's Open. The DuPont Country Club hosted this championship for eleven consecutive seasons, from 1994 through 2004. Final leaderboard Sunday, May 17, 1998 Place Player Score To par Money ($)1 KOR Se Ri Pak 65-68-72-68=273 −11 195,000T2 USA Donna Andrews 71-67-69-69=276 −8 104,666 ENG Lisa Hackney 70-66-69-71=276T4 USA Wendy Ward 71-67-69-70=277 −7 62,145 AUS Karrie Webb 71-73-67-66=277T6 USA Christa Johnson 69-71-67-71=278 −6 39,467 USA Emilee Klein 72-67-68-71=278 USA Meg Mallon 71-69-68-70=278 T9 SWE Catrin Nilsmark 69-73-70-67=279 −5 29,110 USA Kelly Robbins 69-71-68-71=279 Source:http://www.lpga.com/tournaments/kpmgwomenspgachampionship/results?filters=1998 LPGA KPMG Women's PGA Championship (LPGA Championship) 1998 July 27, 2017 References External links Golf Observer leaderboard 1998 39.789 -75.564 type:event title Category:Women's PGA Championship Category:Golf tournaments in Delaware Category:Women's sports in Delaware LPGA Championship LPGA Championship LPGA Championship LPGA Championship