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This table lists players with 11 or more wins on the Ladies European Tour. [1] It does not include official wins on other professional tours, of which a few of the golfers listed, such as Laura Davies and Annika Sörenstam, have many.
Below is a list of female golfers, professional and amateurs, sorted alphabetically. Category:Lists of golfers contains lists of golfers sorted in several other ways: by nationality , by tour and by type of major championship won ( men's , women's or senior ).
[14] [15] She received the 1986 William Richardson Award from the Golf Writers Association of America for consistent outstanding contributions to golf. [16] She is also a member of the New Mexico Hall of Fame, [17] Texas Sports Hall of Fame, [18] Texas Golf Hall of Fame, [15] and the Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame. [19] [20]
At age 14, she took up the game of golf, and within two years had developed her skills to the point where she competed in the 1919 U.S. Women's Amateur, and won her first-round match. Two years later at age 18, she was the Championship medallist for shooting the lowest qualifying score.
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida , and is best known for running the LPGA Tour , a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite women professional golfers from around the world.
The 2005 LPGA Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from February through December 2005. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States–based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). Total prize money for all tournaments was $45,100,000.
The World Series of Golf was an annual golf competition. The competition differed from traditional golf tournaments in that the winner is decided not by the lowest stroke-play score or by winning a bracket-style elimination in match play, but by winning wagers bet on each hole in a betting style similar to poker .
The EWGA was founded by Nancy Oliver [1] in 1991 and was one of the largest women's amateur golf associations in the United States. [citation needed] In 2018, the EWGA was acquired by the LPGA and rebranded as LPGA Women Who Play, and later rebranded as LPGA Amateur Golf Association.