SemGroup Championship

Last updated
SemGroup Championship
Tournament information
Location Tulsa, Oklahoma
Established2001
Tour(s) LPGA Tour
Final year2008
Final champion
Paula Creamer

The SemGroup Championship was a golf tournament for professional female golfers that was part of the LPGA Tour. It was played annually from 2001 to 2008 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Contents

The tournament was originally known as the Williams Championship, with the Williams Companies as the title sponsor. John Q. Hammons Hotels & Resorts was the title sponsor from 2003 to 2006. In 2007, SemGroup, a Tulsa-based firm providing diversified services for end users and consumers of energy products, took over as the title sponsor. SemGroup filed for bankruptcy protection in July 2008; in November 2008, the LPGA and tournament managers announced that they had been unable to find a replacement sponsor, and that the 2009 tournament would be cancelled. [1]

Tournament names through the years:

Winners

YearDatesChampionCountryScoreCoursePurse ($)Winner's
share ($)
2008*May 1–4 Paula Creamer Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 282 (−2) Cedar Ridge Country Club 1,800,000270,000
2007*May 4–6 Mi Hyun Kim Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 210 (−3)Cedar Ridge Country Club1,400,000195,000
2006 Sep 8–10 Cristie Kerr Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 199 (−14)Cedar Ridge Country Club1,000,000150,000
2005 Sep 16–18 Annika Sörenstam Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 208 (−5)Cedar Ridge Country Club1,000,000150,000
2004 Sep 10–12 Annika Sörenstam Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 204 (−9)Cedar Ridge Country Club1,000,000150,000
2003 Sep 5–7 Karrie Webb Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 200 (−10) Tulsa Country Club 1,000,000150,000
2002 Sep 6–8 Annika Sörenstam Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 199 (−11)Tulsa Country Club1,000,000150,000
2001 Sep 7–9 Gloria Park Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 201 (−9)Tulsa Country Club1,000,000150,000

* Championship won in sudden-death playoff.

Tournament record

YearPlayerScoreRoundCourse
2001 Donna Andrews 62 (−8)2nd roundTulsa Country Club, par 70
2006 Cristie Kerr 61 (−10)2ndCedar Ridge Country Club, par 71

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Annika Sörenstam</span> Swedish professional golfer

Annika Charlotta Sörenstam is a Swedish professional golfer. She is regarded as one of the best female golfers in history. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she had won 90 international tournaments as a professional, making her the female golfer with the most wins to her name. She has won 72 official LPGA tournaments including ten majors and 24 other tournaments internationally. After turning 50, she came back from her retirement and added a win in the 2021 U.S. Senior Women's Open.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mi-Hyun Kim</span> South Korean golfer (born 1977)

Mi-Hyun Kim is a professional golfer from South Korea. She turned professional in 1996 and won 11 events on the LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA) between 1996 and 2000. In 1999, she joined the LPGA Tour and was named was Rookie of the Year that year. She has won eight LPGA events with her best finish in a major championship second place at the 2001 Women's British Open.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michelle Wie West</span> American professional golfer

Michelle Sung Wie West is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship. Wie also became the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and the youngest to qualify for an LPGA Tour event. She turned professional shortly before her 16th birthday in 2005, accompanied by an enormous amount of publicity and endorsements. She won her first and only major at the 2014 U.S. Women's Open.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Women's major golf championships</span> Championships in womens major golf

Women's golf has a set of major championships, A series of tournaments designated to be of a higher status than other tournaments, five tournaments are currently designated as 'majors' in women's golf by the LPGA.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Canadian Women's Open</span> Professional golf tournament

The Canadian Women's Open is a women's professional golf tournament managed by Golf Canada. It has been Canada's national championship tournament since its founding in 1973, and is an official event on the LPGA Tour.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lorena Ochoa</span> Mexican professional golfer

Lorena Ochoa Reyes is a Mexican former professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks, from 23 April 2007 to her retirement on 2 May 2010, at the age of 28 years old. As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world, she is considered the best Mexican golfer and the best Latin American female golfer of all time. Ochoa was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017.

The LPGA Tour Championship, in full the LPGA Tour Championship Presented by Rolex, was the season-ending women's professional golf tournament on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. After two seasons it was discontinued, replaced by the CME Group Titleholders in 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Suzann Pettersen</span> Norwegian professional golfer

Suzann Pettersen is a retired Norwegian professional golfer. She played mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour, and was also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Her career best world ranking was second and she held that position several times, most recently from August 2011 until February 2012. She retired on 15 September 2019 after holing the winning putt for the European team at the 2019 Solheim Cup, notwithstanding that she had been away from golf for almost 20 months on maternity leave prior to the event.

The ADT Championship was a women's professional golf tournament on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. The season-ending event on the tour, it became the LPGA Playoffs at The ADT from 2006 through 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brittany Lincicome</span> American golfer

Brittany Grace Lincicome is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She currently resides in Gulfport, Florida.

The Dana Open, is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour. It was founded 40 years ago in 1984 and has been played yearly, except in 1986 and 2011, in Sylvania, Ohio, a suburb northwest of Toledo. The tournament is televised by Golf Channel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Portland Classic</span> Golf tournament

The Portland Classic is a women's professional golf tournament in Oregon on the LPGA Tour. Founded 52 years ago in 1972, the annual event in the Portland area is the oldest continuous event on the LPGA Tour. Tournament Golf Foundation has owned the tournament since its beginning and also managed the Safeway International tournament on the LPGA Tour. It became a 72-hole event in 2013, after decades at 54 holes.

The LPGA State Farm Classic was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour. It was played annually from 1976 to 2011 in the Springfield, Illinois metropolitan area. From 1976 through 2006, the tournament was held at The Rail Golf Course. In 2007 it moved to Panther Creek Country Club.

The Sybase Classic was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour for twenty years, from 1990 to 2009. The event was originally known as the "Big Apple Classic", but the name was dropped in 2007 when the tournament relocated from the New York City area to New Jersey. From 1992 through 2006, ShopRite sponsored the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Atlantic City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Toto Japan Classic</span>

The Toto Japan Classic is an annual women's professional golf tournament in Japan, jointly sanctioned by the two richest women's professional tours: the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour. It was an unofficial money event on the LPGA Tour from 1973 to 1975. It has taken place every year since 1973 at various locations, and is typically held in early November. From 2006 through 2015, the event has been played at Kintetsu Kashikojima Country Club in Shima, Mie. In 2016 and 2017, the events have been held at Minori Course of Taiheiyo Club in Omitama, Ibaraki, then changed back to the North Course of Seta Golf Course in Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture for 2018 events.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ShopRite LPGA Classic</span>

The ShopRite LPGA Classic, known in full for sponsorship reasons as The ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer, is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour in Galloway, New Jersey, near Atlantic City. It took place annually from 1986 through 2006 and returned to the tour schedule in 2010 at the Bay Course at the Dolce Seaview Resort, with a prize fund of $1.75 million. Purchased in September 2010, the resort is now known as Seaview, A Dolce Hotel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walmart NW Arkansas Championship</span>

The Walmart NW Arkansas Championship is an annual women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour in Rogers, Arkansas, north of Fayetteville. First played seventeen years ago in 2007, all editions of the tournament have been played at Pinnacle Country Club.

Amanda Blumenherst is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She was a three-time National Player of the Year at Duke University and won the U.S. Women's Amateur title in 2008. In 2013, she announced that she would take a leave from professional golf to spend more time with her husband, major league baseball player Nate Freiman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brittany Lang</span> American golfer

Brittany Lang is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She has won one major championship, the 2016 U.S. Women's Open.

PGA Tour on CBS is the branding used for broadcasts of the PGA Tour that are produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States.

References

  1. Jimmie Tramel, "Lack of sponsor ends LPGA tourney's run," Tulsa World , November 19, 2008.