Tournament information | |
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Location | Jasper, Indiana, U.S. (2023) |
Established | 2017 |
Course(s) | Sultan's Run Golf Club (2023) |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,189 yards (5,659 m) |
Tour(s) | Legends Tour |
Format | Stroke play – 54 holes |
Prize fund | $400,000 [1] |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 202 Karrie Webb (2022) |
To par | −14 as above |
Current champion | |
Angela Stanford |
The Senior LPGA Championship is a women's professional golf tournament on the Legends of the LPGA Tour and one of two tournaments forming the senior women's major golf championships. It began in 2017 and the first event was played at The Pete Dye Course in French Lick, Indiana. [2] [3] The minimum age is 45.
Despite the 2015 announcement by the United States Golf Association that a U.S. Senior Women's Open would be added from 2018, for competitors aged 50 or over, the eligibility for the Senior LPGA Championship and the Legends Tour remained to be for female golfers age 45 and older, [4] meaning not all Senior LPGA Championship players are eligible for the U.S. Senior Women's Open.
Year | Date | Champion | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Site | Ref. |
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2023 | Jul 1 | Angela Stanford | 71-70-65=206 | −10 | 1 stroke | Trish Johnson | Sultan's Run Golf Club (IN) | [5] [6] |
2022 | Jul 24 | Karrie Webb | 69-66-67=202 | −14 | 4 strokes | Annika Sörenstam | Salina Country Club (KS) | |
2021 | Aug 29 | Trish Johnson | 67-73-69=209 | −7 | 1 stroke | Becky Morgan | French Lick Resort (Pete Dye Course) (IN) | |
2020 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | [7] | ||||||
2019 | Oct 16 | Helen Alfredsson | 72-72-70=214 | −2 | 3 strokes | Juli Inkster | ||
2018 | Oct 17 | Laura Davies | 68-70-70=208 | −8 | 4 strokes | Helen Alfredsson Silvia Cavalleri | ||
2017 | Jul 12 | Trish Johnson | 67-72-73=212 | −4 | 3 strokes | Michele Redman |
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