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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.
In close races for LPGA season titles, the last tournament of the year often determines the winners of the year-end awards: Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Vare Trophy (lowest scoring average), and the Money List leader.
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.
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]
It is based on the list on the LPGA Tour's official site, which differs slightly from the main win lists on player's personal profiles on the site. 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.
[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 ...
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.
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]