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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 ...
Through the 2024 season, 140 golfers have won one of women's golf's LPGA majors. They are listed here in order of their first win. For a complete list of results in these tournaments see the LPGA majors article.
This article lists all 140 women who have won major championships on the LPGA Tour, both past and present. [1] They are listed in order of the number of victories, with updates reflecting the 2024 season. Winning span indicates the years from the player's first major win to the last.
The first LPGA tournament was the 1950 Tampa Women's Open, held at Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in Tampa, Florida. Ironically, the winner was amateur Polly Riley, who beat the stellar field of professional founders. [13] In 1956, the LPGA hosted its first tournament outside the United States at the Havana Open in Havana, Cuba. [citation needed]
The LPGA Championship has had eleven wire-to-wire champions on twelve different occasions: Beverly Hanson in 1955, Wright in 1958 and 1961, Judy Kimball in 1962, Kathy Whitworth in 1967, Sandra Post in 1968, Jan Stephenson in 1982, Nancy Lopez in 1985, King in 1992, Se Ri Pak in 1998, Kerr in 2010, and Tseng in 2011. [6] The current champion is ...
This category contains articles about women golfers who have won LPGA major championships. Most, but not all, were members of the LPGA Tour. Through the 2024 Evian Championship, there are 140 players on this list.
From 2006 through 2008, the winners of the four women's majors received automatic entry to the LPGA's season championship, the LPGA Tour Championship. Beginning in 2009, the Tour Championship extended entry to all players in the top 120 on the official LPGA Money List.
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]