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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 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 ...
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.
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 five major championships had a higher points distribution, with 625 points to the winner. No-cut tournaments only awarded points to the top 40 finishers. Only LPGA members are eligible to earn points. From 2014 to 2018, the top 72 players on the points list and any tournament winners, whether or not a member, earned entry into the championship.
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 .
LPGA Tour Money Winner; LPGA Vare Trophy; Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year; 2007. LPGA Rolex Player of the Year (2) LPGA Tour Money Winner (2) LPGA Vare Trophy (2) Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year; Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year; Mexico National Sports Award (3) Golf Writers Association of America
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.