DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—A field of 142 players will tee it up this week at the Nov. 30-Dec. 4 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament at both the Legends Course and Champions Course at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla. All will be vying for one of the 24 coveted exempt LPGA Tour cards for the 2006 [...]
MIYAZAKI (Kyodo) Overnight leader Shiho Oyama hung on to win the Japan LPGA Tour Championship by four strokes Sunday, while Yuri Fudo finished second to clinch the money title for the sixth consecutive year.
Oyama shot a 1-under-par 71 in the final round for a 72-hole total of 5-under 283 at Miyazaki Country Club, claiming her [...]
LPGA Commissioner Carolyn F. Bivens has announced the 2006 LPGA Tour schedule, which will feature 34 events with prize money nearing US$50 million, the highest ever in LPGA history. Bivens also unveiled the details of the qualifying system for the previously announced LPGA Playoffs at The ADT, the first-ever playoff system in golf, which awards [...]
Morgan Pressel wants to play for money on the LPGA Tour, and she’s willing to do it the old fashioned way. No guaranteed contracts, no guaranteed spots. Just a 17-year-old and her sticks, trying to make a living the best way she knows how.
To do that, Pressel will go to the LPGA qualifying school in [...]
The season-ending ADT Championship in West Palm Beach, Fla., got off to a rocky start Thursday when the top two players on the LPGA Tour — Annika Sorenstam and Paula Creamer — got into a tense dispute on the 18th fairway over where Sorenstam should have taken a drop from the hazard.
“Neither one of them [...]