Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic

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Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic
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Tournament information
Location Daly City, California, U.S.
Established 2014
Course(s) Lake Merced Golf Club
Par72
Length6,507 yards (5,950 m)
Tour(s) LPGA Tour
Format Stroke play - 72 holes
Prize fund $2 million
Month playedApril
Tournament record score
Aggregate276 Lydia Ko (2014)
To par−12 Lydia Ko (2014)
Current champion
Flag of Japan.svg Haru Nomura
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Daly City
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Daly City

The Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic was a women's professional golf tournament in California on the LPGA Tour, held at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City, an adjacent suburb south of San Francisco. [1] It debuted in April 2014, but ran for just three years, the LPGA Mediheal Championship succeeded it in 2018, also played at Lake Merced. [2]

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Course history

Originally designed by Willie Locke, Lake Merced Golf Club opened 101 years ago in July 1923 and was re-designed in 1929 by Alister MacKenzie, architect of the Augusta National Golf Club. Robert Muir Graves re-routed the course in the 1960s to accommodate Interstate 280, and the most recent revision was completed by Rees Jones in 1996. [3] Southeast of Lake Merced, the course is in close proximity to San Francisco Golf Club, Olympic Club, and TPC Harding Park.

Winners

YearDatesChampionCountryWinning scoreTo parMargin
of victory
Purse
($)
Winner's
share ($)
2016 Apr 21–24 Haru Nomura Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 65-70-71-73=279−94 strokes2,000,000300,000
2015 Apr 23–26 Lydia Ko (2)Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 67-72-71-70=280−8Playoff2,000,000300,000
2014 Apr 24–27Lydia KoFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 68-71-68-69=276−121 stroke1,800,000270,000

Tournament records

YearPlayerScoreRound
2016 Ryu So-yeon 63 (−9)1st

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References

  1. "Juli Inkster to play in new LPGA event". ESPN. Associated Press. February 3, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Kroichick, Ron (December 13, 2017). "It's official: LPGA will return to Lake Merced in April". SF Gate. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  3. "The Course". Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic. 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.

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