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.............................. Ladies Professional Golf Association
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The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which runs from February to December each year. In 2007 prize money on the LPGA Tour is USD $54.285 million.
Other "LPGA"s exist in other countries, each with a geographical designation in its name, but the U.S. organization is the largest and best known. The LPGA is also an organization for female club and teaching golf professionals. This is different from the PGA Tour which runs the main professional tours in the U.S. and, since 1968, has been independent of the club and teaching professionals' organization, the PGA of America. The LPGA was founded in 1950 by a group of 13 women, including Babe Didrikson Zaharias. It is now the oldest ongoing women's professional sports organization in the United States. Carolyn Bivens is the current LPGA Commissioner.
Most of the LPGA Tour's events are held in the United States. In 2007 there are two tournaments in Mexico and one in Canada. Two events are co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour: the Women's British Open and the Evian Masters in France, held the preceding week. An autumn Asian swing includes tournaments in Korea, Thailand, and Japan.
A unique feature of the LPGA season is that no event is held in the week following any of its major championships. The LPGA also does not hold an event in the week following the Solheim Cup, a team competition between teams representing the U.S. and Europe in odd-numbered years. This sets it apart from men's golf, which holds events in the week following all of the mainstream majors (i.e., under-50) and senior majors.
In its early decades the LPGA Tour was dominated by American players. Vivien Saunders of the United Kingdom became the first player living outside the United States to gain an LPGA tour card in 1969. The non-U.S. contingent is now very large. The last time an American player topped the money list was in 1993, the last time an American led the tour in tournaments won was in 1996, and from 2000 through 2006 non-Americans won 22 of 28 major championships. In 2007 there were 117 non-Americans from 26 countries, including 45 from South Korea, 15 from Sweden, 9 from Australia, 9 from Great Britain, 7 from Canada, (4 from England, and 4 from Scotland.
Of the 33 events in 2006, only seven were won by Americans, with Cristie Kerr the only American to win more than once (three times). By contrast, Mexican Lorena Ochoa won six events, Australian Karrie Webb five, Swede Annika Sörenstam three, and nine different South Koreans combined to win 11 events. (See 2006 LPGA Tour for more details on the 2006 season.)
In 2007 Americans saw a relative resurgence, winning 12 events. For the first time since 2000, two Americans won majors. However, only one American, Paula Creamer, won more than one event, while Mexico's Lorena Ochoa won eight times and Norway's Suzann Pettersen five. Koreans won only four events, down from 11 in 2006.
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