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9 unusual facts about LPGA


Carrie Roberts

After graduating in 2002, Carrie qualified for the LPGA Tour on her first attempt.

Corina Knoll

In 2003, she was the recipient of the 2003 New California Media Award for her story about Korean golfers on the LPGA tour which appeared in the December 2002 issue of KoreAm Journal.

Dean A. Hrbacek

In 1996, while serving as a City Council member for Sugar Land's affluent District Four, which included a large part of the First Colony master-planned community including Sweetwater Country Club (the one-time home of the LPGA), Hrbacek decided to run for the mayor's office being vacated by incumbent Lee Duggan who was term limited from seeking re-election after serving a total of ten years.

Dedman School of Hospitality

The state of Florida has more golf courses than any other state in the country and is the headquarters for the PGA, LPGA, PGA Tour, and National Golf Foundation and FSU has a long, distinguished history of graduating professional golfers and educating students for business and hospitality operations.

Frederick Crocker

His great-granddaughter, Fay Crocker, was an LPGA golfer, winner of two majors and holder of several golf records.

Jay Randolph

Randolph also worked for NBC Sports television in the 1970s and '80s, announcing a wide variety of events including the National Football League, Major League Baseball, college football, college basketball, PGA Tour and LPGA golf, the Professional Bowlers Association, and three Olympic Games and the Breeders' Cup.

Jean-Louis Lévesque

Known at the time as La Canadienne, it was the first-ever LPGA tournament in Canada.

Robert DeStefano

Within these offices and also in the field, he has worked with athletes of all levels including the US Olympic Bobsled/Luge/Skeleton teams, US Olympic Hockey Team, the NHL, NBA, LPGA, and the NFL.

WPGA

WPGA, the Women's Professional Golf Association, the 1940s predecessor of the LPGA.


ADT Championship

Annika Sörenstam, for example, commented that a player who had a great year, like Sörenstam did in 2005, when she won 10 times, could miss the cut after round three, and not only lose the tournament, but also the title given to the player who tops the LPGA Money List for the year to someone not even in the List's top 10 at the event's start.

Alfredsson

Helen Alfredsson (born 1965), Swedish professional golfer who plays primarily on the U.S. based LPGA Tour

Amelia Lewis

In December 2010 at age 19, Lewis became the first Jacksonville, Florida native to be fully exempt on the LPGA since Colleen Walker in 1982, some 28 years earlier.

Brendan Connor

In 2008, he did stories on Turkish NBA star, Hedo Türkoğlu, covered the Davis Cup Tennis Finals in Argentina, reported from the Super Bowl in Phoenix, profiled Indy Racing and driver Danica Patrick, South Korean golfers on the LPGA Tour, and produced a series of pre-Olympic stories on athletes and teams headed to Beijing.

Horseheads High School

The Middle School also houses a fieldhouse with a large center area for volleyball, soccer, basketball, etc., a small indoor track, and an indoor/outdoor golf chipping and putting area designed by Joe Sindelar (father of PGA golfer Joey Sindelar) and funded by a grant from the First Tee Program and the LPGA.

Karen Lunn

She turned professional in 1985 and has spent much of her career on the Ladies European Tour, where she has won several tournaments including a Women's British Open title in 1993 (before that tournament was an LPGA major championship).

Kay McMahon

In 2002, McMahon and business partner, Eloise Trainor, Founder of the LPGA Futures Tour (now the Symetra Tour), rebranded into eduKaytion Golf, an exclusive golf education company located at the Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club in Lenox, Massachusetts, since January 2012.

Louise Suggs

Suggs was an inaugural inductee into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame, established in 1967, and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1979.

She was one of the co-founders of the LPGA in 1950, which included her two great rivals of the time, Patty Berg and Babe Zaharias.

Mizuno

Mizuno Classic, an annual golf tournament for professional female golfers on the United States LPGA Tour

Pacific Links International

Amateur golfers may enjoy following the footsteps of great champions such as Greg Norman and Annika Sorenstam at Kapolei, which hosted the LPGA Tour’s Ladies Hawaiian Open from 1996 to 2001.

Rafaela

Silvia Bertolaccini, former LPGA professional golf player and current ESPN announcer for Latin America

Ralph Lauren Corporation

The company also sponsors US professional golfers Webb Simpson, Tom Watson, Jonathan Byrd, Davis Love III and Luke Donald; as well as LPGA golfer Morgan Pressel.

Rancho Park Golf Course

Rancho Park has hosted various tournaments for the PGA Tour, LPGA and Champions Tour (formerly Senior PGA Tour) including the Los Angeles Open (now known as the Northern Trust Open and the United States Senior Open.

Ryann O'Toole

She also played in her first LPGA tournament in August 2010 when she received a sponsor's exemption to the CN Canadian Women's Open in Winnipeg, but missed the cut.

Ty Votaw

While Votaw was at the LPGA, he and LPGA Tour golfer Sophie Gustafson became personally close, sparking press coverage because he was still married, though separated from, his first wife, Paula Keiffer.

William and Mousie Powell Award

It was established by Mousie Powell, an honorary member and longtime supporter of the LPGA, and named in honor of Powell and her husband, William Powell, a legendary Hollywood actor of the mid-twentieth century.


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