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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.
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 ...
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.
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 victory gave Ko her second career Player of the Year honor and the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average. Ko earned the largest payout in LPGA history, $2 million, while Maguire won $550,000 and Nordqvist $340,000. Ko also earned three more LPGA Hall of Fame points to give her 25, two shy of the 27 required for admission. [15]
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.
She also won the LPGA Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average on the LPGA Tour. [ 25 ] Her achievements were recognized outside the sport of golf when Ochoa won the 2006 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year award and received the National Sports Prize for the second time.
The 2024 LPGA Tour was the 75th 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 18, and ended on November 24, at the Tiburón Golf Club in the CME Group Tour Championship at Naples, Florida. [1]