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Thitikul became the second Thai player (following Ariya Jutanugarn in 2018) to win the Vare Trophy, an award recognizing the player with the lowest scoring average for the season. 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]
The LPGA Tour held its season-finale event at Trump's course in West Palm Beach from 2001-08. The banquet to honor top players was held at Mar-a-Lago. ... Player of the Year and Vare Trophy winner ...
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.
The 1953 LPGA Tour was the fourth season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from January 15 to October 18. The season consisted of 25 official money events. Louise Suggs won the most tournaments, nine. She also led the money list with earnings of $19,816.
[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 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).
The first LPGA tournament was the 1950 Tampa Women's Open, held at Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in Tampa, Florida. Ironically, the winner was amateur Polly Riley, who beat the stellar field of professional founders. [13] In 1956, the LPGA hosted its first tournament outside the United States at the Havana Open in Havana, Cuba. [citation needed]
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.