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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.
Her third LPGA Tour win came in July 2010 at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at which she beat three other players on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff. [5] In 2010, Choi was both the LPGA Tour money leader and the leading scorer (Vare Trophy).
In 2023, Thitikul won the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average on the LPGA Tour. In November 2024, she won the CME Group Tour Championship and earned a prize of $4 million. [7] This result, as well as her others during the season, earned her $6,059,309 on the LPGA tour in 2024.
During a four-year stretch from 1953 to 1956, Berg won the Vare Trophy three times for having the lowest scoring average on the LPGA. [5] She was the LPGA Tour's top money winner twice, in 1954 and 1957, and her seven Titleholders wins is an all-time record. [3]
Rankin was LPGA Player of the Year twice (1976, 1977) and won the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average three times. 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.
[4] [9] She was the first LPGA player to earn $1 million, in 1981. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 5 ] Whitworth was LPGA Player of the Year seven times between 1966 and 1973 , won the Vare Trophy for best scoring average by an LPGA Tour player a record seven times between 1965 and 1972, [ 12 ] and was inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1975 and into the ...
The following week a strong performance at the season's final event, Park would win her second career Vare Trophy (2012 her first) for the lowest scoring average for the season. The Vare Trophy accomplishment also put Park on the threshold for induction into the LPGA Hall of Fame. The trophy giving her the 27 points required for induction.
She also led the money list for the second straight year and won the Rolex Player of the Year award. Stacy Lewis won the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average, the first American to win since 1994. Three players, Lewis, Park, and Suzann Pettersen had scoring averages below 70, for the first time in LPGA Tour history. [2]