Duration | January 20, 2006 – December 24, 2006 |
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Number of official events | 33 |
Most wins | 6 Lorena Ochoa |
Money leader | Lorena Ochoa |
Rolex Player of the Year | Lorena Ochoa |
Rookie of the Year | Seon Hwa Lee |
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The 2006 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world, which took place from February through December 2006. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States-based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). In 2006, prize money on the LPGA Tour exceeded US$50 million for the first time in the history of the LPGA Tour.
Lorena Ochoa became the first Mexican to top the money list on the LPGA Tour, or any major international golf tour, while Annika Sörenstam held her position as the top ranked player through the whole season. Multi-time major champions Karrie Webb and Se Ri Pak had comeback seasons after fallow periods, each claiming a major championship.
2006 saw a growth in the international presence on the Tour. Of the 33 events, only seven were won by Americans, with Cristie Kerr the only American to win more than once (three times). By contrast, Mexican Lorena Ochoa won six events, Australian Karrie Webb five, Swede Annika Sörenstam three, and nine different South Koreans combined to win 11 events. The season-ending LPGA Playoffs at The ADT was won by Paraguayan Julieta Granada. The other seven finalists in that event featured only two Americans (Paula Creamer and Natalie Gulbis); the others were Ochoa, Webb, Koreans Il Mi Chung and Mi Hyun Kim, and Japanese Ai Miyazato.
For details of what happened in the main tournaments of the year see 2006 in golf.
The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the LPGA Tour including that event.
Date | Tournament | Location | ADT Playoff category | Winner | Purse ($) | Winner's share ($) |
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Jan 22 | Women's World Cup of Golf | South Africa | unofficial | Sweden (Annika Sörenstam & Liselotte Neumann) | ||
Feb 18 | SBS Open at Turtle Bay | Hawaii | points | Joo Mi Kim (1) | 1,000,000 | 150,000 |
Feb 25 | Fields Open in Hawaii | Hawaii | points | Meena Lee (2) | 1,100,000 | 165,000 |
Mar 12 | MasterCard Classic | Mexico | points | Annika Sörenstam (67) | 1,200,000 | 180,000 |
Mar 19 | Safeway International | Arizona | points | Juli Inkster (31) | 1,400,000 | 210,000 |
Apr 2 | Kraft Nabisco Championship | California | major | Karrie Webb (31) | 1,800,000 | 270,000 |
Apr 15 | LPGA Takefuji Classic | Nevada | points | Lorena Ochoa (4) | 1,100,000 | 165,000 |
Apr 23 | Florida's Natural Charity Championship | Georgia | points | Sung Ah Yim (1) | 1,400,000 | 210,000 |
Apr 30 | Ginn Clubs & Resorts Open | Florida | points | Mi Hyun Kim (6) | 2,500,000 | 375,000 |
May 7 | Franklin American Mortgage Championship | Tennessee | points | Cristie Kerr (7) | 1,100,000 | 165,000 |
May 14 | Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill | Virginia | winner | Karrie Webb (32) | 2,200,000 | 330,000 |
May 21 | Sybase Classic * | New York | points | Lorena Ochoa (5) | 1,300,000 | 195,000 |
May 28 | LPGA Corning Classic | New York | points | Hee-Won Han (5) | 1,200,000 | 180,000 |
Jun 4 | ShopRite LPGA Classic | New Jersey | points | Seon Hwa Lee (1) | 1,500,000 | 225,000 |
Jun 11 | McDonald's LPGA Championship | Maryland | major | Se Ri Pak (23) | 1,800,000 | 270,000 |
Jun 25 | Wegmans LPGA | New York | points | Jeong Jang (2) | 1,800,000 | 270,000 |
Jul 2 | U.S. Women's Open | Rhode Island | major | Annika Sörenstam (68) | 3,100,000 | 560,000 |
Jul 9 | HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship | New Jersey | winner | Brittany Lincicome (1) | 2,000,000 | 500,000 |
Jul 16 | Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic | Ohio | points | Mi Hyun Kim (7) | 1,200,000 | 180,000 |
Start of second half of season | ||||||
Jul 29 | Evian Masters | France | winner | Karrie Webb (33) | 3,000,000 | 450,000 |
Aug 6 | Weetabix Women's British Open | England | major | Sherri Steinhauer (7) | 1,800,000 | 305,440 |
Aug 13 | CN Canadian Women's Open | Ontario | points | Cristie Kerr (8) | 1,700,000 | 255,000 |
Aug 20 | Safeway Classic | Oregon | points | Pat Hurst (5) | 1,400,000 | 210,000 |
Aug 27 | Wendy's Championship for Children | Ohio | points | Lorena Ochoa (6) | 1,100,000 | 165,000 |
Sep 3 | State Farm Classic | Illinois | points | Annika Sörenstam (69) | 1,300,000 | 195,000 |
Sep 10 | John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic | Oklahoma | points | Cristie Kerr (9) | 1,000,000 | 150,000 |
Sep 24 | Longs Drugs Challenge | California | points | Karrie Webb (34) | 1,100,000 | 165,000 |
Oct 8 | Corona Morelia Championship | Mexico | points | Lorena Ochoa (7) | 1,000,000 | 150,000 |
Oct 15 | Samsung World Championship | California | winner | Lorena Ochoa (8) | 875,000 | 218,750 |
Oct 22 | Honda LPGA Thailand | Thailand | global group | Hee-Won Han (6) | 1,300,000 | 195,000 |
Oct 29 | KOLON-Hana Bank Championship | South Korea | global group | Jin Joo Hong (1) | 1,350,000 | 202,500 |
Nov 5 | Mizuno Classic | Japan | global group | Karrie Webb (35) | 1,200,000 | 180,000 |
Nov 12 | The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions | Alabama | winner | Lorena Ochoa (9) | 1,000,000 | 150,000 |
Nov 19 | ADT Championship | Florida | n/a | Julieta Granada (1) | 1,550,000 | 1,000,000 |
Dec 17 | Lexus Cup | Singapore | unofficial | Team Asia | n/a | |
Dec 24 | Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge | Nevada | unofficial | PGA Tour | n/a |
Tournaments in bold are majors.
* tournament shortened to 54 holes because of rain.
Money List leaders
Rank | Player | Country | Earnings ($) | Events |
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1 | Lorena Ochoa | Mexico | 2,592,872 | 25 |
2 | Karrie Webb | Australia | 2,090,113 | 21 |
3 | Annika Sörenstam | Sweden | 1,971,741 | 20 |
4 | Julieta Granada | Paraguay | 1,633,586 | 31 |
5 | Cristie Kerr | United States | 1,578,362 | 26 |
6 | Mi Hyun Kim | South Korea | 1,332,274 | 30 |
7 | Juli Inkster | United States | 1,326,442 | 21 |
8 | Jang Jeong | South Korea | 1,151,070 | 27 |
9 | Hee-Won Han | South Korea | 1,147,651 | 28 |
10 | Pat Hurst | United States | 1,128,662 | 19 |
Scoring Average leaders
Rank | Player | Country | Average |
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1 | Lorena Ochoa | Mexico | 69.24 |
2 | Annika Sörenstam | Sweden | 69.82 |
3 | Cristie Kerr | United States | 70.07 |
4 | Karrie Webb | Australia | 70.11 |
5 | Juli Inkster | United States | 70.48 |
Full 2006 Scoring Average List - navigate to "2006", then "Scoring Average"
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