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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. Lydia Ko wraps up Vare Trophy for low scoring average, inches closer ...
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.
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.
In 1959, she earned the LPGA Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average. She was the tour's leading money winner in 1952 and 1959 and finished in the top ten on the money list a total of nine times. She led the tour in wins three times, 1952 with eight, 1957 with five (tied with Patty Berg ), and 1959 with ten.
[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 ...
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 .
The LPGA Tour played its season-finale ADT Championship at Donald Trump's course in West Palm Beach from 2001-08, during which time the banquet to honor the top players was held about 4 miles away ...
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 ...