Babe Zaharias Open

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The Babe Zaharias Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1953 to 1967. [1] [2] It was played in Beaumont, Texas at the Beaumont Country Club from 1953 to 1964 and at the Bayou Din Golf Club from 1965 to 1967. Babe Zaharias, LPGA co-founder and Beaumont resident, hosted the tournament until her death in 1956. She won the first edition of the event.

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