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The HSBC Women's World Championship is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour first held in 2008. It was played on the Garden Course of the Tanah Merah Country Club in eastern Singapore , adjacent to Singapore Changi Airport from 2008 to 2012.
The Women's PGA Championship is an annual golf competition held in June, and is conducted by the Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA). The event was established in 1955, and is one of the five women's major championships played each year; the others are the ANA Inspiration , the U.S. Women's Open , the Women's British Open , and ...
A golfer's score is compared with the par score. [4] If a course has a par of 72 and a golfer takes 75 strokes to complete the course, the reported score is +3, or "three-over-par" and takes three shots more than par to complete the course. If a golfer takes 70 strokes, the reported score is −2, or "two-under-par".
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.
Year Dates Champion Country Score To par Purse ()Winner's share ($) 2009: Jun 25–28: Jiyai Shin South Korea 271 –17: 2,000,000: 300,000 2008: Jun 19–22: Eun-Hee Ji South Korea 272
Winners of the women's major professional golf championships who are 50 but have not reached their 60th birthday on or before the final day of the tournament – Chevron Championship, KPMG Women's PGA Championship, editions of the Canadian Women's Open from 1979 to 2000, editions of The Women's Open Championship since 2001, and editions of the ...
Until its takeover by the PGA of America in 2015, the tournament was the LPGA's own event, and the LPGA was created specifically to provide opportunities for women in professional golf. In 2005 this rule was revoked, effectively to allow 15-year-old amateur Michelle Wie to compete, in order to attract more media coverage and sell more tickets ...
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.