LPGA

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the 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.

This article is about the golf association. For the political party, see Libertarian Party of Georgia.

Ladies Professional Golf Association
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2023 LPGA Tour
Logo introduced in October 2007[1][2]
SportGolf
Founded1950 (1950)
Founder13 original LPGA players[3]
Inaugural season1950
CommissionerMollie Marcoux Samaan
Country United States, with events in other countries around the world
Most titlesUnited States Kathy Whitworth (88)
TV partner(s)NBC Sports
Golf Channel
CBS Sports
Official websiteLPGA.com

Organization and history

Other "LPGAs" exist in other countries, each with a geographical designation in its name, but the U.S. organization is the first, largest, and most prestigious. The LPGA is also an organization for female club and teaching professionals. This is different from the PGA Tour, which runs the main professional tours in the U.S. and, since 1968, has been independent of the club and teaching professionals' organization, the PGA of America.

The LPGA also administers an annual qualifying school similar to that conducted by the PGA Tour. Depending on a golfer's finish in the final qualifying tournament, she may receive full or partial playing privileges on the LPGA Tour. In addition to the main LPGA Tour, the LPGA also owns and operates the Epson Tour, formerly the Futures Tour, the official developmental tour of the LPGA. Top finishers at the end of each season on that tour receive playing privileges on the main LPGA Tour for the following year.

The LPGA is the oldest continuing women's professional sports organization in the United States.[4][5] It succeeded the WPGA (Women's Professional Golf Association), which was founded in 1944 but stopped its limited tour after the 1948 season and officially ceased operations in December 1949.[6] The WPGA was founded by Ellen Griffin, Betty Hicks, and Hope Seignious.[7][8]

The LPGA was founded in 1950 at Rolling Hills Country Club in Wichita, Kansas.[9] Its 13 founders were: Alice Bauer, Patty Berg, Bettye Danoff, Helen Dettweiler, Marlene Hagge, Helen Hicks, Opal Hill, Betty Jameson, Sally Sessions, Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise Suggs, and Babe Zaharias.[10][11] Patty Berg was its first president.[11] The founders were elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame as a group in 2023 though six had already been inducted individually.[12]

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.

In 1996, Muffin Spencer-Devlin became the first LPGA player to come out as gay.[14]

In 2001, Jane Blalock's JBC Marketing established the Women's Senior Golf Tour, now called the Legends Tour, for women professionals aged 45 and older. This is affiliated with the LPGA, but is not owned by the LPGA.

Since 2006, the LPGA has played a season-ending championship tournament.

Michael Whan became the eighth commissioner of the LPGA in October 2009, succeeding the ousted Carolyn Bivens.[5][15] Whan is a former marketing executive in the sporting goods industry.[16]

After a lawsuit filed by golfer Lana Lawless, the rules were changed in 2010 to allow transgender competitors.[17][18][19] In 2013, trans woman Bobbi Lancaster faced local scorn for attempting playing in Arizona's Cactus Tour and attempting to qualify in the LPGA Qualifying Tournament.[20]

In 2018, the LPGA acquired an amateur golf association, the Executive Women's Golf Association (EWGA), and expanded its emphasis to include amateur golfers in the U.S. and North America. Initially called the LPGA Women Who Play,[21] the amateur organization was rebranded as the LPGA Amateur Golf Association. The LPGA Amateur Golf Association has member-operated chapters throughout North America and the Caribbean.[22]

Prize money and tournaments

In 2010, total official prize money on the LPGA Tour was $41.4 million, a decrease of over $6 million from 2009. In 2010 there were 24 official tournaments, down from 28 in 2009 and 34 in 2008. Despite the loss in total tournaments, the number of tournaments hosted outside of the United States in 2010 stayed the same, as all four lost tournaments had been hosted in the United States. By 2016, the number of tournaments had risen to 33 with a record-high total prize money in excess of $63 million. In 2019, a new record was set with total prize money amounting to $70.5 million (a rise of over $5 million in one year).[23]

International presence

In its first four decades, the LPGA Tour was dominated by American players. Sandra Post of Canada became the first player living outside the United States to gain an LPGA tour card in 1968. The non-U.S. contingent is now very large. The last time an American player topped the money list was in 2014 (Stacy Lewis), the last time an American led the tour in tournaments won was in 2020 (Danielle Kang), and from 2000 through 2009, non-Americans won 31 of 40 major championships.

Particularly, one of the notable trends seen in the early 21st century in the LPGA is the rise and dominance of Korean golfers.[24] Se Ri Pak's early success in the LPGA sparked the boom in Korean women golfers on the LPGA Tour.[25] In 2009, there were 122 non-Americans from 27 countries on the tour, including 47 from South Korea, 14 from Sweden, 10 from Australia, eight from the United Kingdom (four from England, three from Scotland and one from Wales), seven from Canada, five from Taiwan, and four from Japan.[26]

LPGA Tour tournaments
Kristy McPherson during her practice round before the 2009 LPGA Championship
at Bulle Rock Golf Course in Maryland.

As a United States-based tour, most of the LPGA Tour's events are held in the United States. In 1956, the LPGA hosted its first tournament outside the United States at the Havana Open in Havana, Cuba. In 2020, fourteen tournaments are held outside of the United States, seven events in Asia, four in Europe, two events in Australia, and one in Canada.

Five of the tournaments held outside North America are co-sanctioned with other professional tours. The Ladies European Tour co-sanctions the Women's British Open, The Evian Championship in France, and the Women's Australian Open (also co-sanctioned with the ALPG Tour). The other two co-sanctioned events—the BMW Ladies Championship (LPGA of Korea Tour) and Toto Japan Classic (LPGA of Japan Tour)—are held during the tour's autumn swing to Asia.

LPGA majors

The LPGA's annual major championships are:

LPGA Playoffs

Since 2006, the LPGA has played a season-ending championship tournament. Through the 2008 season, it was known as the LPGA Playoffs at The ADT; in 2009 and 2010, it was known as the LPGA Tour Championship; and in 2011, the event became the CME Group Titleholders, held in November.

From 2006 through 2008 the LPGA schedule was divided into two halves, with 15 players from each half qualifying for the Championship based on their performance. Two wild-card selections were also included for a final field of 21 players. 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. The total purse was $1.5 million with $225,000 going to the winner.

The CME Group Titleholders, which resurrects the name of a former LPGA major championship (the Titleholders Championship), was first played in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, its field was made up of three qualifiers from each official tour event during the season, specifically the top three finishers not previously qualified. Beginning in 2014, the field will be determined by a season-long points race. The winner of the points race will receive a $1 million bonus.[27]

2023 LPGA Tour
See also: 2023 LPGA Tour

Historical tour schedules and results
YearNumber of
official tournaments		Countries hosting
tournaments		Tournaments in
United States		Tournaments in
other countries		Total prize
money ($)
202332112111102,350,000[28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
202232923993,900,000[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]
202130723769,200,000
202018314441,300,000
20193212201270,200,000
20183313191466,950,000
20173415171767,650,000
20163314181563,000,000
20153114171459,100,000
20143214171557,550,000
20132814141448,900,000
20122712151247,000,000
20112311131041,500,000
20102410141041,400,000
2009289181047,600,000
2008348241060,300,000
200731823854,285,000
200633825850,275,000
200532725745,100,000
200432627542,875,000
  • Official tournaments are tournaments in which earnings and scores are credited to the players' official LPGA record.

Hall of Fame

The LPGA established the Hall of Fame of Women's Golf in 1951, with four charter members: Patty Berg, Betty Jameson, Louise Suggs, and Babe Zaharias. After being inactive for several years, the Hall of Fame moved in 1967 to its first physical premises, in Augusta, Georgia, and was renamed the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame. In 1998 it merged into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

LPGA Tour awards

The LPGA Tour presents several annual awards. Three are awarded in competitive contests, based on scoring over the course of the year.

  • The Player of the Year is awarded based on a formula in which points are awarded for top-10 finishes and are doubled at the LPGA's five major championships, and the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. The points system is: 30 points for first; 12 points for second; nine points for third; seven points for fourth; six points for fifth; five points for sixth; four points for seventh; three points for eighth; two points for ninth and one point for 10th.
  • The Vare Trophy, named for Glenna Collett-Vare, is given to the player with the lowest scoring average for the season.
  • The Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year Award is awarded to the first-year player on the LPGA Tour who scores the highest in a points competition in which points are awarded based on a player's finish in an event. The points system is: 150 points for first; 80 points for second; 75 points for third; 70 points for fourth; and 65 points for fifth. After fifth place, points are awarded in decrements of three, beginning at sixth place with 62 points. Points are doubled in the major events and at the season-ending Tour Championship. Rookies who make the cut in an event and finish below 41st each receive five points. The award is named after Louise Suggs, one of the founders of the LPGA.

American golfer Nancy Lopez, in 1978, is the only player to win all three awards in the same season. Lopez was also the Tour's top money earner that season.

YearPlayer of the YearVare TrophyRookie of the Year
2022New Zealand Lydia KoNew Zealand Lydia KoThailand Atthaya Thitikul[44]
2021South Korea Ko Jin-youngNew Zealand Lydia KoThailand Patty Tavatanakit[45]
2020South Korea Kim Sei-youngUnited States Danielle Kang–
2019South Korea Ko Jin-youngSouth Korea Ko Jin-youngSouth Korea Lee Jeong-eun
2018Thailand Ariya Jutanugarn[46]Thailand Ariya JutanugarnSouth Korea Ko Jin-young[47]
2017South Korea Sung Hyun Park
South Korea So Yeon Ryu		United States Lexi ThompsonSouth Korea Sung Hyun Park[48]
2016Thailand Ariya JutanugarnSouth Korea In Gee ChunSouth Korea In Gee Chun
2015New Zealand Lydia KoSouth Korea Inbee ParkSouth Korea Sei Young Kim
2014United States Stacy LewisUnited States Stacy LewisNew Zealand Lydia Ko[49]
2013South Korea Inbee ParkUnited States Stacy LewisThailand Moriya Jutanugarn
2012United States Stacy LewisSouth Korea Inbee ParkSouth Korea So Yeon Ryu
2011Taiwan Yani TsengTaiwan Yani TsengSouth Korea Hee Kyung Seo
2010Taiwan Yani TsengSouth Korea Na Yeon ChoiSpain Azahara Muñoz
2009Mexico Lorena OchoaMexico Lorena OchoaSouth Korea Jiyai Shin
2008Mexico Lorena OchoaMexico Lorena OchoaTaiwan Yani Tseng
2007Mexico Lorena OchoaMexico Lorena OchoaBrazil Angela Park
2006Mexico Lorena OchoaMexico Lorena OchoaSouth Korea Seon Hwa Lee
2005Sweden Annika SörenstamSweden Annika SörenstamUnited States Paula Creamer
2004Sweden Annika SörenstamSouth Korea Grace ParkSouth Korea Shi Hyun Ahn
2003Sweden Annika SörenstamSouth Korea Se Ri PakMexico Lorena Ochoa
2002Sweden Annika SörenstamSweden Annika SörenstamUnited States Beth Bauer
2001Sweden Annika SörenstamSweden Annika SörenstamSouth Korea Hee-Won Han
2000Australia Karrie WebbAustralia Karrie WebbUnited States Dorothy Delasin
1999Australia Karrie WebbAustralia Karrie WebbSouth Korea Mi Hyun Kim
1998Sweden Annika SörenstamSweden Annika SörenstamSouth Korea Se Ri Pak
1997Sweden Annika SörenstamAustralia Karrie WebbEngland Lisa Hackney
1996England Laura DaviesSweden Annika SörenstamAustralia Karrie Webb
1995Sweden Annika SörenstamSweden Annika SörenstamUnited States Pat Hurst
1994United States Beth DanielUnited States Beth DanielSweden Annika Sörenstam
1993United States Betsy KingUnited States Betsy KingEngland Suzanne Strudwick
1992United States Dottie MochrieUnited States Dottie MochrieSweden Helen Alfredsson
1991United States Pat BradleyUnited States Pat BradleyUnited States Brandie Burton
1990United States Beth DanielUnited States Beth DanielJapan Hiromi Kobayashi
1989United States Betsy KingUnited States Beth DanielScotland Pam Wright
1988United States Nancy LopezUnited States Colleen WalkerSweden Liselotte Neumann
1987Japan Ayako OkamotoUnited States Betsy KingUnited States Tammie Green
1986United States Pat BradleyUnited States Pat BradleyUnited States Jody Rosenthal
1985United States Nancy LopezUnited States Nancy LopezUnited States Penny Hammel
1984United States Betsy KingUnited States Patty SheehanUnited States Juli Inkster
1983United States Patty SheehanUnited States JoAnne CarnerUnited States Stephanie Farwig
1982United States JoAnne CarnerUnited States JoAnne CarnerUnited States Patti Rizzo
1981United States JoAnne CarnerUnited States JoAnne CarnerUnited States Patty Sheehan
1980United States Beth DanielUnited States Amy AlcottUnited States Myra Blackwelder
1979United States Nancy LopezUnited States Nancy LopezUnited States Beth Daniel
1978United States Nancy LopezUnited States Nancy LopezUnited States Nancy Lopez
1977United States Judy RankinUnited States Judy RankinUnited States Debbie Massey
1976United States Judy RankinUnited States Judy RankinUnited States Bonnie Lauer
1975United States Sandra PalmerUnited States JoAnne CarnerUnited States Amy Alcott
1974United States JoAnne CarnerUnited States JoAnne CarnerAustralia Jan Stephenson
1973United States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Judy RankinUnited States Laura Baugh
1972United States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Kathy WhitworthCanada Jocelyne Bourassa
1971United States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Kathy WhitworthSouth Africa Sally Little
1970United States Sandra HaynieUnited States Kathy WhitworthUnited States JoAnne Carner
1969United States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Jane Blalock
1968United States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Carol MannCanada Sandra Post
1967United States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Sharron Moran
1966United States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Kathy WhitworthUnited States Jan Ferraris
1965–United States Kathy WhitworthAustralia Margie Masters
1964–United States Mickey WrightUnited States Susie Maxwell
1963–United States Mickey WrightUnited States Clifford Ann Creed
1962–United States Mickey WrightUnited States Mary Mills
1961–United States Mickey Wright–
1960–United States Mickey Wright–
1959–United States Betsy Rawls–
1958–United States Beverly Hanson–
1957–United States Louise Suggs–
1956–United States Patty Berg–
1955–United States Patty Berg–
1954–United States Babe Zaharias–
1953–United States Patty Berg–

Leading money winners by year
YearPlayerCountryEarnings ($)Most wins
2022Lydia Ko New Zealand4,364,4033 – Lydia Ko, Jennifer Kupcho
2021Ko Jin-young South Korea3,502,1615 – Ko Jin-young
2020Ko Jin-young South Korea1,667,9252 – Danielle Kang, Kim Sei-young
2019Ko Jin-young South Korea2,773,8944 – Ko Jin-young
2018Ariya Jutanugarn Thailand2,743,9493 – Ariya Jutanugarn, Sung Hyun Park
2017Sung Hyun Park South Korea2,335,8833 – Shanshan Feng, In-Kyung Kim
2016Ariya Jutanugarn Thailand2,550,9285 – Ariya Jutanugarn
2015Lydia Ko New Zealand2,800,8025 – Lydia Ko, Inbee Park
2014Stacy Lewis United States2,539,0393 – Lydia Ko, Stacy Lewis, Inbee Park
2013Inbee Park South Korea2,456,6196 – Inbee Park
2012Inbee Park South Korea2,287,0804 – Stacy Lewis
2011Yani Tseng Taiwan2,921,7137 – Yani Tseng
2010Na Yeon Choi South Korea1,871,1665 – Ai Miyazato
2009Jiyai Shin South Korea1,807,3343 – Jiyai Shin, Lorena Ochoa
2008Lorena Ochoa Mexico2,754,6607 – Lorena Ochoa
2007Lorena Ochoa Mexico4,364,9948 – Lorena Ochoa
2006Lorena Ochoa Mexico2,592,8726 – Lorena Ochoa
2005Annika Sörenstam Sweden2,588,24010 – Annika Sörenstam
2004Annika Sörenstam Sweden2,544,7078 – Annika Sörenstam
2003Annika Sörenstam Sweden2,029,5066 – Annika Sörenstam
2002Annika Sörenstam Sweden2,863,90411 – Annika Sörenstam
2001Annika Sörenstam Sweden2,105,8688 – Annika Sörenstam
2000Karrie Webb Australia1,876,8537 – Karrie Webb
1999Karrie Webb Australia1,591,9596 – Karrie Webb
1998Annika Sörenstam Sweden1,092,7484 – Annika Sörenstam, Se Ri Pak
1997Annika Sörenstam Sweden1,236,7896 – Annika Sörenstam
1996Karrie Webb Australia1,002,0004 – Laura Davies, Dottie Pepper, Karrie Webb
1995Annika Sörenstam Sweden666,5333 – Annika Sörenstam
1994Laura Davies England687,2014 – Beth Daniel
1993Betsy King United States595,9923 – Brandie Burton
1992Dottie Mochrie United States693,3354 – Dottie Mochrie
1991Pat Bradley United States763,1184 – Pat Bradley, Meg Mallon
1990Beth Daniel United States863,5787 – Beth Daniel
1989Betsy King United States654,1326 – Betsy King
1988Sherri Turner United States350,8513 – 5 players (see 1)
1987Ayako Okamoto Japan466,0345 – Jane Geddes
1986Pat Bradley United States492,0215 – Pat Bradley
1985Nancy Lopez United States416,4725 – Nancy Lopez
1984Betsy King United States266,7714 – Patty Sheehan, Amy Alcott
1983JoAnne Carner United States291,4044 – Pat Bradley, Patty Sheehan
1982JoAnne Carner United States310,4005 – JoAnne Carner, Beth Daniel
1981Beth Daniel United States206,9985 – Donna Caponi
1980Beth Daniel United States231,0005 – Donna Caponi, JoAnne Carner
1979Nancy Lopez United States197,4898 – Nancy Lopez
1978Nancy Lopez United States189,8149 – Nancy Lopez
1977Judy Rankin United States122,8905 – Judy Rankin, Debbie Austin
1976Judy Rankin United States150,7346 – Judy Rankin
1975Sandra Palmer United States76,3744 – Carol Mann, Sandra Haynie
1974JoAnne Carner United States87,0946 – JoAnne Carner, Sandra Haynie
1973Kathy Whitworth United States82,8647 – Kathy Whitworth
1972Kathy Whitworth United States65,0635 – Kathy Whitworth, Jane Blalock
1971Kathy Whitworth United States41,1815 – Kathy Whitworth
1970Kathy Whitworth United States30,2354 – Shirley Englehorn
1969Carol Mann United States49,1528 – Carol Mann
1968Kathy Whitworth United States48,37910 – Carol Mann, Kathy Whitworth
1967Kathy Whitworth United States32,9378 – Kathy Whitworth
1966Kathy Whitworth United States33,5179 – Kathy Whitworth
1965Kathy Whitworth United States28,6588 – Kathy Whitworth
1964Mickey Wright United States29,80011 – Mickey Wright
1963Mickey Wright United States31,26913 – Mickey Wright
1962Mickey Wright United States21,64110 – Mickey Wright
1961Mickey Wright United States22,23610 – Mickey Wright
1960Louise Suggs United States16,8926 – Mickey Wright
1959Betsy Rawls United States26,77410 – Betsy Rawls
1958Beverly Hanson United States12,6395 – Mickey Wright
1957Patty Berg United States16,2725 – Betsy Rawls, Patty Berg
1956Marlene Hagge United States20,2358 – Marlene Hagge
1955Patty Berg United States16,4926 – Patty Berg
1954Patty Berg United States16,0115 – Louise Suggs, Babe Zaharias
1953Louise Suggs United States19,8168 – Louise Suggs
1952Betsy Rawls United States14,5058 – Betsy Rawls
1951Babe Zaharias United States15,0879 – Babe Zaharias
1950Babe Zaharias United States14,8008 – Babe Zaharias

    1 The five players with three titles in 1988 were Juli Inkster, Rosie Jones, Betsy King, Nancy Lopez, and Ayako Okamoto.

    Leading career money winners

    The table below shows the top-10 career money leaders on the LPGA Tour (from the start of their rookie seasons) as of October 22, 2023.[50]

    Active players on the Tour are shown in bold.

    RankPlayerCountryPlayedEarnings ($)Career
    events
    1Annika Sörenstam Sweden1994–202322,583,693307
    2Karrie Webb Australia1996–present20,293,617494
    3Cristie Kerr United States1997–present20,179,848597
    4Inbee Park South Korea2007–present18,262,344305
    5Lydia Ko New Zealand2014–present16,919,487223
    6Lorena Ochoa Mexico2003–201014,863,331175
    7Suzann Pettersen Norway2003–201914,837,578316
    8Stacy Lewis United States2009–present14,493,255340
    9Juli Inkster United States1983–202214,018,391714
    10Lexi Thompson United States2012–present13,850,955239

    Total prize money awarded in past years
    SeasonTotal
    purse ($)
    202041,300,000
    (73,500,000[51][52])
    201041,400,000
    200038,500,000
    199017,100,000
    19805,150,000
    1970435,040
    1960186,700
    195050,000

    See also

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