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Lydia Ko shot an 8-under 64 on Sunday in Naples to win the Vare Trophy for lowest stroke average on the LPGA Tour this season.
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 ...
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 2023 LPGA Tour was the 74th 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 19, and officially ended on November 19, at the Tiburón Golf Club in the CME Group Tour Championship at Naples, Florida, not counting the ...
She retired from full-time competition at age 38 in 1983 due to chronic back problems, [9] and later captained the victorious Solheim Cup teams in 1996 and 1998. Rankin became the first player voted into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame in 2000 under the veterans category, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and she was also inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000.
She also won the LPGA Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average on the LPGA Tour. [ 25 ] Her achievements were recognized outside the sport of golf when Ochoa won the 2006 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year award and received the National Sports Prize for the second time.
Thitikul averaged 69.53 strokes over 75 rounds without winning a single tournament, marking the first time in 70 years that the Vare Trophy went to a non-winner. [ 73 ] In December, Thitikul played on the Ladies Asian Tour , where she secured a 7-stroke victory at the Simone Asia Pacific Cup, claiming the $110,000 first prize.
The 2013 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world. The Tour began in Australia on February 14 and ended on November 24 in Florida . [ 1 ] The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States–based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).