1959 LPGA Championship

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{{Infobox individual golf tournament

| name = 1959 LPGA Championship

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| dates = July 2–6, 1959

| location = French Lick, Indiana

| course = Sheraton Hotel Country Club

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| tour = LPGA Tour

| format = Stroke play – 72 holes

| par = 74

| yardage = {{convert|6700|yd|-1}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=f71OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7gAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4392%2C2070835 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |location=Ohio |agency=Associated Press |title=Betsy Rawls leads LPGA with course-record 68 |date=July 4, 1959 |page=11 }}

| field = 29 players

| cut = none

| purse = $7,500

| winners_share = $1,247

| champion = {{flagicon|USA}} Betsy Rawls

| score = 288 (−8)

| previous = 1958

| next = 1960

}}

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The 1959 LPGA Championship was the fifth LPGA Championship, held July 2–6 at Sheraton Hotel Country Club in French Lick, Indiana.

Betsy Rawls won the first of her two LPGA Championships, one stroke ahead of Patty Berg.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Gj0aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xSUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3972,2956331 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal |agency=Associated Press |title=Rawls is winner; Joyce Ziske is fourth |date=July 7, 1959 |page=14}} The final round on Sunday was delayed to Monday due to heavy rain and unplayable greens.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gb1OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7gAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4403%2C2849005 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |location=Ohio |agency=Associated Press |title=Rawls eyes sixth 1959 LPGA title |date=July 6, 1959 |page=18 }} Defending champion Mickey Wright finished nine strokes back in eighth place. It was the fourth of eight major titles for Rawls.

The course was designed by Donald Ross; it opened in 1917 and was originally known as the "Hill Course." It hosted the PGA Championship in 1924, the second of five won by Walter Hagen and the first of four consecutive. It is now named the "Donald Ross Course."{{cite web |url=http://www.frenchlick.com/golf/donaldross/history |publisher=French Lick Resort |title=The Donald Ross Course at French Lick Resort |accessdate=July 28, 2014}} The LPGA Championship returned to the course the following year in 1960.