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The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers.The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite women professional golfers from around the world.
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.
Nelly Korda (born July 28, 1998) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour, where she has won 14 times and reached number one in the Women's World Golf Rankings. Korda won the Olympic gold medal at the women's individual golf event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [3]
The 2021 LPGA Tour was the 72nd edition of the LPGA Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world. The season began at the Four Season Golf Club in Lake Buena Vista, Florida on January 21 and ended on November 21 at the Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Florida. [2]
List of LPGA major championship winning golfers. This article lists all the women (140) who have won past and present major championships on the LPGA Tour. [1] They are listed in order of the number of victories. The list is updated through 2024 Evian Championship . Winning span indicates the years from the player's first major win to the last.
Brooke Henderson. Brooke Mackenzie Henderson (born 10 September 1997) is a Canadian professional golfer on the LPGA Tour . Henderson was named the Canadian Press female athlete of the year for 2015, 2017 and 2018. [3] [4] [5] She won her first major at age 18 in 2016 at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, becoming the event's youngest winner. [6]
The U.S. Women's Open is the second major of the LPGA season and has the highest purse in women's golf. The most recent increase, announced in January 2022, saw the purse nearly double from its previous $ 5.5 million ( 2019 – 2021) [ 2] to $10 million starting in 2022. The 2022 purse increase came about when the nonprofit health care company ...
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 ...