1998 LPGA Championship

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{{Infobox individual golf tournament

| name = 1998 LPGA Championship

| image =

| dates = May 14–17, 1998

| location = Wilmington, Delaware

| course = DuPont Country Club

| tour = LPGA Tour

| par = 71

| yardage = {{convert|6386|yd}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jtpOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oh4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110%2C1265463 |work=Wilmington Morning Star |location=(North Carolina) |title=LPGA Championship: final scores |date=May 18, 1998 |page=4C}}

| field = 139 players, 72 after cut

| format = Stroke play - 72 holes

| cut = 146 (+4)

| purse = $1.3 million

| winners_share = $195,000

| champion = {{flagicon|KOR}} Se Ri Pak

| score = 273 (−11)

| previous = 1997

| next = 1999

| map = USA#USA Delaware

| map_label = DuPont CC

| map_caption = Location in United States##Location in Delaware

| map_relief = yes

| coordinates = {{coord|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.{{cite magazine |url=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 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |last=Diaz |first=Jaime |title=The whole Pak-age |date=May 25, 1998 |page=G3}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jtpOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oh4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6598%2C1271337 |work=Wilmington Morning Star |location=(North Carolina) |agency=Associated Press |title=Upstart surprises LPGA field with 1st major title |date=May 18, 1998 |page=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.