Wolverine Open

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The Wolverine Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played intermittently from 1955 to 1963. [1] [2] It was played at three courses in the Detroit, Michigan area: Forest Lake Country Club in Bloomfield Hills in 1955, Lochmoor Club in Grosse Pointe Woods in 1957, and Hillcrest Golf & Country Club in Mount Clemens in 1960 and 1963.

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