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1997 Nabisco Dinah Shore
Tournament information
Dates	March 27–30, 1997
Location	Rancho Mirage, California
Course(s)	Mission Hills Country Club; Dinah Shore Tourn. Course
Tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Format	Stroke play - 72 holes
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,460 yards (5,907 m)
Field	119 players, 74 after cut
Cut	149 (+5)
Prize fund	$900,000
Winner's share	$135,000
Champion
	Betsy King
	276 (−12)
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Rancho Mirage

Location in the United States

Rancho
Mirage

Location in California

The 1997 Nabisco Dinah Shore was a women's professional golf tournament, held March 27–30 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. This was the 26th edition of the Nabisco Dinah Shore, and the fifteenth as a major championship.

Betsy King, age 41, won her third title in this event, two strokes ahead of runners-up Kris Tschetter and Amy Fruhwirth.^[2] It was the last of her six major titles.^[3]

At $900,000, this was the tournament's last six-figure purse; the winner's share was $135,000.^[1]

Final leaderboard

Sunday, March 30, 1997

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Betsy King	71-67-67-71=276	−12	135,000
2	Kris Tschetter	66-76-66-70=278	−10	83,783
T3	Amy Fruhwirth	69-70-68-72=279	−9	54,346
T3	Kelly Robbins	70-67-68-74=279	−9	54,346
T5	Nanci Bowen	70-74-70-68=282	−6	35,097
T5	Lisa Hackney	70-72-72-68=282	−6	35,097
7	Tina Barrett	70-71-70-72=283	−5	26,720
T8	Hiromi Kobayashi	72-69-71-72=284	−4	21,285
	Annika Sörenstam	70-72-68-74=284
	Mary Beth Zimmerman	75-74-72-63=284

Source:^[1]^[2]^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Scoreboard: LPGA Diah Shore". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). March 31, 1997. p. 8B.
^ ^a ^b "Opportunistic King wins third Dinah Shore". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. March 31, 1997. p. 2B.
^ Garrity, John (April 7, 1997). "Back in the swing". Sports Illustrated. p. G2.
^ "ANA Inspiration (Nabisco Dinah Shore)". LPGA. 1997. Retrieved July 28, 2017.