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In professional golf, the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the tour for the following season, otherwise known as a "tour card", meaning that they can play in most of ...
The 2024 LPGA Tour was the 75th edition of the LPGA Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world.The season began at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, in Orlando, Florida on January 18, and ended on November 24, at the Tiburón Golf Club in the CME Group Tour Championship at Naples, Florida. [1]
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.
Thompson successfully petitioned the LPGA to receive a waiver to the rule that LPGA Tour members must be at least 18 years old, allowing her to enter the 2011 LPGA Qualifying School for Tour membership in 2012. The first of three stages was held July 26–29, 2011, at the LPGA International course in Daytona Beach, Florida.
The 2025 LPGA Tour is the 76th edition of the LPGA Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world.The season begin at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, in Orlando, Florida on January 30, and end on November 23, at the Tiburón Golf Club in the CME Group Tour Championship at Naples, Florida. [1]
Wie declined to enter LPGA Tour qualifying school after turning 18 and therefore would have to depend on sponsor exemptions to play in future LPGA tournaments. This decision drew criticism from golf fans and commentators. [64] [65] Such criticism ended after Wie qualified for the LPGA Tour through the 2008 qualifying tournament. [66]
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour. Tour membership is open to professional women golfers and to qualified amateurs.
Aug. 30—Kaiser grad Malia Nam shot a 66 on the Indian Wells course in San Diego on Tuesday, rocketing up to third place in the first stage of LPGA qualifying, Nam — who opened with a 71 on ...