The Sarah Coventry

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The Sarah Coventry was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1976 to 1981. [1] The inaugural event was played in Florida at the Lely Country Club in Naples in February 1976, [2] then moved to northern California and the Round Hill Country Club in Alamo in September for two years, 1977 and 1978. [3] [4] It relocated to western New York in 1979 and was renamed the Rochester International in 1982; it later became the Wegman's LPGA, played through 2009, until replaced by the Wegman's LPGA Championship.

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Tournament names

Winners

YearDatesChampionCountryScoreTo parPurse ($)Winner's
share ($)
1981 Jun 25–28 Nancy Lopez (2)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 285–7125,00018,750
1980 Jun 26–29Nancy LopezFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States 283–9125,00018,750
1979 Jun 14–17 Jane Blalock (2)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 280–12100,00015,000
1978 Sep 14–17 Donna Caponi Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 282–10100,00015,000
1977 Sep 22–25Jane BlalockFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States 282–10100,00015,000
1976 Feb 6–8 Jan Stephenson Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 218+260,0008,500

Wegmans LPGA

After 1978, the tournament relocated from California to New York and was played at the Locust Hill Country Club near Rochester from 1979 to 1981. In 1979, the tournament recognized the 1976–78 tournaments as its predecessors, [5] and not the Bankers Trust Classic which had been played at Locust Hill in 1977 and 1978. Today however the Wegmans LPGA recognizes the Bankers Trust Classics and not the first three Sarah Coventry events as part of the tournament's history. [6] The change gave Nancy Lopez three wins in the event, as she won the Bankers Trust Classic at Locust Hill in 1978. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ LPGA Tournament Chronology 1970-1979
  2. ↑ "Stephenson wins Naples Classic". Nashua (NH) Telegraph. UPI. February 9, 1976. p. 25.
  3. ↑ "Jane wins Coventry". Nashua (NH) Telegraph. UPI. September 26, 1977. p. 27.
  4. ↑ "Young ends golf slump". Reading (PA) Eagle. Associated Press. September 18, 1978. p. 23.
  5. ↑ "Relaxed Blalock wins big". Boca Raton News. Associated Press. June 18, 1979. p. 1B.
  6. ↑ Tournament history
  7. ↑ "Lopez-Melton victor in Sarah Coventry golf". Bangor Daily News. Associated Press. June 29, 1981. p. 18.
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