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The winner of the LPGA Tour Championship, which features three days of "playoffs" plus the final championship round, earns $1 million. In 2009, the Tour Championship field was increased to 120 players, with entry open to all Tour members in the top 120 on the money list as of three weeks prior to the start of the tournament.
At its debut in 1972 as a 54-hole event, it was the richest event in women's golf; [3] [5] [6] its purse was more than double that of the LPGA Championship or the U.S. Women's Open. The first edition invited all winners of tour events from the previous ten seasons. [3]
The wins counted here include professional titles won before the tour was founded in 1950; and LPGA Tour events won as an amateur, or as an international invitee before joining the LPGA Tour. They do not include team events, unofficial events, or official wins on other professional tours, of which a few of the golfers listed, such as Laura ...
Zhang is now the first person to win on the Tour while making her pro debut since Beverly Hanson did in 1951, and the first to win in her first LPGA start since 2019.
LPGA Championship - Laura Davies; Karrie Webb is the leading money winner on the LPGA tour with earnings of $1,002,000 becoming the first ever woman to earn more than a million dollars in one golf season. 1997
Formerly known as the LPGA Championship, the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) announced in 2014 that the PGA of America would become a partner of the event, and that it would be renamed the Women's PGA Championship beginning in 2015—becoming a sister event to the men's PGA Championship (in a similar manner to the U.S. Women's Open ...
Pro golfers called on the LPGA Tour to alter its gender-participation policy amid a sudden leadership shakeup before the start of the 2025 season.
Thompson did not have the best year of her career, missing the LPGA's season-ending CME championship for the first time after a rough start to her season, but the Delray Beach resident rebounded ...