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This article is about the golf association. For the political party, see Libertarian Party of Georgia.The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which runs from February to December each year. In 2008 prize money on the LPGA Tour exceeds $58 million.
Other "LPGA"s exist in other countries, each with a geographical designation in its name, but the U.S. organization is the largest and best known. The LPGA is also an organization for female club and teaching golf 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 was founded in 1950 by a group of 13 women, including Babe Didrikson Zaharias. It is now the oldest ongoing women's professional sports organization in the United States.[1][2] Carolyn Bivens is the current LPGA Commissioner.
Most of the LPGA Tour's events are held in the United States. In 2008, three tournaments will be held in Mexico and one each in Singapore, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, and Japan. Four of the tournaments held outside North America are co-sanctioned with other professional tours. The Ladies European Tour co-sanctions the Evian Masters in France and the Women's British Open, held the following week. The other two co-sanctioned events—the Korea Championship (LPGA of Korea Tour) and Mizuno Classic (LPGA of Japan Tour)—are held in successive autumn weeks in Asia. This Asian swing formerly included a tournament in Thailand, but that event was dropped for 2008 and replaced with a new tournament in China.
The LPGA's annual major championships are:
Kraft Nabisco Championship McDonald's U.S. LPGA Championship Presented by Coca-Cola U.S. Women's Open Ricoh Women's British Open (held in cooperation with Ladies European Tour) In its early 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 1993, the last time an American led the tour in tournaments won was in 1996, and from 2000 through 2006 non-Americans won 22 of 28 major championships. In 2008 there are 121 non-Americans from 26 countries, including 45 from South Korea, 15 from Sweden, 11 from Australia, 9 from the United Kingdom (4 each from England and Scotland and one from Wales), 6 from Canada, 5 from Taiwan, and 4 from Germany.[3]
Of the 33 events in 2006, only seven were won by Americans, with Cristie Kerr the only American to win more than once (three times). By contrast, Mexican Lorena Ochoa won six events, Australian Karrie Webb five, Swede Annika Sörenstam three, and nine different South Koreans combined to win 11 events. (See 2006 LPGA Tour for more details on the 2006 season.)
In 2007 Americans saw a relative resurgence, winning 12 events. For the first time since 2000, two Americans won majors. However, only one American, Paula Creamer, won more than one event, while Mexico's Lorena Ochoa won eight times and Norway's Suzann Pettersen five. Koreans won only four events, seven fewer than the 11 won in in 2006.
Besides the main LPGA Tour, the LPGA operates a second-level developmental tour, the Futures Tour. 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 also administers an annual Qualifying School similar to that conducted by the PGA Tour. Depending on a golfer's finish in the Qualifying School tournament, she may receive full or partial playing privileges on the LPGA Tour.
In 2001, the LPGA established the Women's Senior Golf Tour, now called The Legends Tour, for women professionals aged 45 and above.
Since 2006, all official LPGA tournaments have been part of a playoff system, leading up to the November LPGA Playoffs at The ADT. The LPGA schedule is divided into two halves, with 15 players from each half qualifying for the ADT Championship based on their performance. Two wild-card selections are also included in the Playoffs. The winner of the ADT Championship, which features three days of “playoffs” plus the final championship round, earns $1 million.
ADT Playoff Categories:
winner: Official LPGA Tour events with a purse of at least $2,000,000. Winners of these events automatically qualify for the ADT Championship. standard: Winners do not automatically qualify for the ADT Championship; the ADT points system is used. unofficial These events are not official LPGA Tour events and participation is not part of the ADT Playoff system. The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the LPGA Tour including that event.
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