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Ladies Professional Golf Association
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Logo introduced in October 2007[1][2]
SportGolf
Founded1950; 76 years ago (1950)
Founder13 original LPGA players[3]
First season1950
CommissionerCraig Kessler[4]
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Most titlesTemplate:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (88)
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Golf Channel
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Official websitelpga.com

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The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite women professional golfers from around the world.

Organization and history

Other "LPGAs" exist in other countries, each with a territorial designation, but the U.S. organization is the first and most prestigious and therefore does not have an "American" qualifier. The LPGA is also an organization for female club and teaching professionals. This is different from the PGA Tour, which runs the main professional tours in the U.S. and, since 1968, has been independent of the club and teaching professionals' organization, the Professional Golfers' Association of America (or PGA of America).

The LPGA also administers an annual qualifying school similar to that conducted by the PGA Tour. Depending on a golfer's finish in the final qualifying tournament, she may receive full or partial playing privileges on the LPGA Tour. In addition to the main LPGA Tour, the LPGA also owns and operates the Epson Tour, formerly the Futures Tour, the official developmental tour of the LPGA. Top finishers at the end of each season on that tour receive playing privileges on the main LPGA Tour for the following year.

The LPGA is the oldest continuing women's professional sports organization in the United States.[5][6] It succeeded the WPGA (Women's Professional Golf Association), which was founded in 1944 but stopped its limited tour after the 1948 season and officially ceased operations in December 1949.[7] The WPGA had been founded by Ellen Griffin, Betty Hicks, and Hope Seignious.[8][9]

In 1950, a Certificate of Incorporation was issued to the Ladies Professional Golf Association by the State of New York. Five women signed the original charter: Patty Berg, Helen Dettweiler, Sally Sessions, Betty Jameson, and Helen Hicks. Eight more professionals attended the organizational meeting, which was held at Rolling Hills Country Club, Wichita, Kansas, that same year: Alice Bauer, Marlene Bauer (Hagge), Betty Mims Danoff, Opal Hill, Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise Suggs, and Babe Zaharias.[10] Its 13 founders were: Alice Bauer, Patty Berg, Bettye Danoff, Helen Dettweiler, Marlene Hagge, Helen Hicks, Opal Hill, Betty Jameson, Sally Sessions, Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise Suggs, and Babe Zaharias.[11][12] Patty Berg served as its first president.[12] The founders were elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame as a group in 2023 though six had already been inducted individually.[13]

The first LPGA tournament was the 1950 Tampa Women's Open, held at Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in Tampa, Florida. Ironically, the winner was amateur Polly Riley, who beat the stellar field of professional founders.[14] In 1956, the LPGA hosted its first tournament outside the United States at the Havana Open in Havana, Cuba.[citation needed]

In 2001, Jane Blalock's JBC Marketing established the Women's Senior Golf Tour, now called the Legends Tour, for women professionals aged 45 and older. This is affiliated with the LPGA, but is not owned by the LPGA.

Michael Whan, a former marketing executive in the sporting goods industry,[15] became the eighth commissioner of the LPGA in October 2009, succeeding the ousted Carolyn Bivens.[6][16]

After a lawsuit filed by golfer Lana Lawless, the rules were changed in 2010 to allow transgender competitors.[17][18][19] In 2013, trans woman Bobbi Lancaster faced local scorn for attempting to play in Arizona's Cactus Tour in hopes of getting a spot for the LPGA Qualifying Tournament.[20] In December 2024, the LPGA published a new policy that states in order to compete as female in their tournaments, players must either be assigned female at birth, or have transitioned to female before undergoing male puberty. The policy goes into effect in 2025.[21]

In 2018, the LPGA acquired an amateur golf association, the Executive Women's Golf Association (EWGA), and expanded its emphasis to include amateur golfers in the U.S. and North America. Initially called the LPGA Women Who Play,[22] the amateur organization was rebranded as the LPGA Amateur Golf Association. The LPGA Amateur Golf Association has member-operated chapters throughout North America and the Caribbean.[23]

LPGA Tour tournaments

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Kristy McPherson during her practice round before the 2009 LPGA Championship
at Bulle Rock Golf Course in Maryland.

As a United States–based tour, most of the LPGA Tour's events are held in the United States. In 1956, the LPGA hosted its first tournament outside the United States at the Havana Open in Havana, Cuba. In 2020, fourteen tournaments are held outside of the United States, seven events in Asia, four in Europe, two events in Australia, and one in Canada.

As of 2025, six of the tournaments held outside North America are co-sanctioned with other professional tours. The Ladies European Tour co-sanctions the Women's British Open, The Evian Championship in France, and the Women's Scottish Open. The other three co-sanctioned events—the Blue Bay LPGA, Buick LPGA Shanghai (China LPGA Tour) and Toto Japan Classic (LPGA of Japan Tour)—are held during the tour's autumn swing to Asia.

LPGA majors

The LPGA's annual major championships are:

Source:[24]

LPGA Playoffs

Since 2006, the LPGA has played a season-ending championship tournament. Through the 2008 season, it was known as the LPGA Playoffs at The ADT; in 2009 and 2010, it was known as the LPGA Tour Championship. In 2011, the event became the CME Group Titleholders, held in November; since 2014, it has been known as the CME Group Tour Championship, and that name is used as of 2024.

From 2006 through 2008 the LPGA schedule was divided into two halves, with 15 players from each half qualifying for the Championship based on their performance. Two wild-card selections were also included for a final field of 21 players. The winner of the LPGA Tour Championship, which features three days of "playoffs" plus the final championship round, earns $1 million.

In 2009, the Tour Championship field was increased to 120 players, with entry open to all Tour members in the top 120 on the money list as of three weeks prior to the start of the tournament. The total purse was $1.5 million with $225,000 going to the winner.

The CME Group Titleholders, which resurrects the name of a former LPGA major championship (the Titleholders Championship), was first played in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, its field was made up of three qualifiers from each official tour event during the season, specifically the top three finishers not previously qualified.

After 2014, the field is determined by a season-long points race, the Race to the CME Globe.[25] Points conferred to players on tour depend on whether the tournament is major or not, and placement. From 2014 to 2018, the top 72 players in the Race to the CME Globe competed in the CME Group Tour Championship, with the top 12 players mathematically eligible to win a $1 million bonus in 2017 and 2018. Past Race to the CME Globe champions include Lydia Ko (2014, 2015, 2022), Ariya Jutanugarn (2016, 2018),Lexi Thompson (2017) and Atthaya 'Jeeno' Thitikul (2024, 2025).

Tournament prize money

In 2010, total official prize money on the LPGA Tour was $41.4 million, a decrease of over $6 million from 2009. In 2010 there were 24 official tournaments, down from 28 in 2009 and 34 in 2008. Despite the loss in total tournaments, the number of tournaments hosted outside of the United States in 2010 stayed the same, as all four lost tournaments had been hosted in the United States. By 2016, the number of tournaments had risen to 33 with a record-high total prize money in excess of $63 million. In 2019, a new record was set with total prize money amounting to $70.5 million (a rise of over $5 million in one year).[26]

International presence

In its first four decades, the LPGA Tour was dominated by American players. Sandra Post of Canada became the first player living outside the United States to gain an LPGA tour card in 1968. The non-U.S. contingent is now very large. The last time an American player topped the money list was in 2014 (Stacy Lewis), the last time an American led the tour in tournaments won was in 2020 (Danielle Kang), and from 2000 through 2009, non-Americans won 31 of 40 major championships.

Particularly, one of the notable trends seen in the early 21st century in the LPGA is the rise and dominance of Korean golfers.[27] Se Ri Pak's early success in the LPGA sparked the boom in Korean women golfers on the LPGA Tour.[28] In 2009, there were 122 non-Americans from 27 countries on the tour, including 47 from South Korea, 14 from Sweden, 10 from Australia, eight from the United Kingdom (four from England, three from Scotland and one from Wales), seven from Canada, five from Taiwan, and four from Japan.[29]

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Historical tour schedules and results

Year Number of
official tournaments		 Countries hosting
tournaments		 Tournaments in
United States		 Tournaments in
other countries		 Total prize
money ($)
2025 33 11 22 11 131,000,000[30]
2024 33 11 22 11 125,500,000[31]
2023 32 11 21 11 102,350,000[32]
2022 32 9 23 9 93,900,000[33]
2021 30 7 23 7 69,200,000
2020 18 3 14 4 41,300,000
2019 32 12 20 12 70,200,000
2018 33 13 19 14 66,950,000
2017 34 15 17 17 67,650,000
2016 33 14 18 15 63,000,000
2015 31 14 17 14 59,100,000
2014 32 14 17 15 57,550,000
2013 28 14 14 14 48,900,000
2012 27 12 15 12 47,000,000
2011 23 11 13 10 41,500,000
2010 24 10 14 10 41,400,000
2009 28 9 18 10 47,600,000
2008 34 8 24 10 60,300,000
2007 31 8 23 8 54,285,000
2006 33 8 25 8 50,275,000
2005 32 7 25 7 45,100,000
2004 32 6 27 5 42,875,000
  • Official tournaments are tournaments in which earnings and scores are credited to the players' official LPGA record.

Hall of Fame

The LPGA established the Hall of Fame of Women's Golf in 1951, with four charter members: Patty Berg, Betty Jameson, Louise Suggs, and Babe Zaharias. After being inactive for several years, the Hall of Fame moved in 1967 to its first physical premises, in Augusta, Georgia, and was renamed the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame. In 1998 it merged into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

LPGA Tour awards

The LPGA Tour presents several annual awards. Three are awarded in competitive contests, based on scoring over the course of the year.

  • The Player of the Year is awarded based on a formula in which points are awarded for top-10 finishes and are doubled at the LPGA's five major championships. The points system is: 30 points for first; 12 points for second; nine points for third; seven points for fourth; six points for fifth; five points for sixth; four points for seventh; three points for eighth; two points for ninth and one point for 10th.
  • The Vare Trophy, named for Glenna Collett-Vare, is given to the player with the lowest scoring average for the season.
  • The Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year Award is awarded to the first-year player on the LPGA Tour who scores the highest in a points competition in which points are awarded based on a player's finish in an event. The points system is: 150 points for first; 80 points for second; 75 points for third; 70 points for fourth; and 65 points for fifth. After fifth place, points are awarded in decrements of three, beginning at sixth place with 62 points. Points are doubled in the major events and at the season-ending Tour Championship. Rookies who make the cut in an event and finish below 41st each receive five points. The award is named after Louise Suggs, one of the founders of the LPGA.

American golfer Nancy Lopez, in 1978, is the only player to win all three awards in the same season. Lopez was also the Tour's top money earner that season.

Year Player of the Year Vare Trophy Rookie of the Year
2025 Template:Flagicon Jeeno Thitikul Template:Flagicon Jeeno Thitikul (2) Template:Flagicon Miyū Yamashita[34]
2024 Template:Flagicon Nelly Korda Template:Flagicon Ayaka Furue Template:Flagicon Mao Saigo
2023 Template:Flagicon Lilia Vu Template:Flagicon Jeeno Thitikul Template:Flagicon Ryu Hae-ran
2022 Template:Flagicon Lydia Ko (2) Template:Flagicon Lydia Ko (2) Template:Flagicon Jeeno Thitikul[35]
2021 Template:Flagicon Ko Jin-young (2) Template:Flagicon Lydia Ko Template:Flagicon Patty Tavatanakit[36]
2020 Template:Flagicon Kim Sei-young Template:Flagicon Danielle Kang –
2019 Template:Flagicon Ko Jin-young Template:Flagicon Ko Jin-young Template:Flagicon Lee Jeong-eun
2018 Template:Flagicon Ariya Jutanugarn (2)[37] Template:Flagicon Ariya Jutanugarn Template:Flagicon Ko Jin-young[38]
2017 Template:Flagicon Park Sung-hyun
Template:Flagicon Ryu So-yeon		 Template:Flagicon Lexi Thompson Template:Flagicon Park Sung-hyun[39]
2016 Template:Flagicon Ariya Jutanugarn Template:Flagicon Chun In-gee Template:Flagicon Chun In-gee
2015 Template:Flagicon Lydia Ko Template:Flagicon Inbee Park (2) Template:Flagicon Kim Sei-young
2014 Template:Flagicon Stacy Lewis (2) Template:Flagicon Stacy Lewis (2) Template:Flagicon Lydia Ko[40]
2013 Template:Flagicon Inbee Park Template:Flagicon Stacy Lewis Template:Flagicon Moriya Jutanugarn
2012 Template:Flagicon Stacy Lewis Template:Flagicon Inbee Park Template:Flagicon Ryu So-yeon
2011 Template:Flagicon Yani Tseng (2) Template:Flagicon Yani Tseng Template:Flagicon Hee-kyung Seo
2010 Template:Flagicon Yani Tseng Template:Flagicon Choi Na-yeon Template:Flagicon Azahara Muñoz
2009 Template:Flagicon Lorena Ochoa (4) Template:Flagicon Lorena Ochoa (4) Template:Flagicon Jiyai Shin
2008 Template:Flagicon Lorena Ochoa (3) Template:Flagicon Lorena Ochoa (3) Template:Flagicon Yani Tseng
2007 Template:Flagicon Lorena Ochoa (2) Template:Flagicon Lorena Ochoa (2) Template:Flagicon Angela Park
2006 Template:Flagicon Lorena Ochoa Template:Flagicon Lorena Ochoa Template:Flagicon Lee Seon-hwa
2005 Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (8) Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (6) Template:Flagicon Paula Creamer
2004 Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (7) Template:Flagicon Grace Park Template:Flagicon Ahn Shi-hyun
2003 Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (6) Template:Flagicon Pak Se-ri Template:Flagicon Lorena Ochoa
2002 Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (5) Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (5) Template:Flagicon Beth Bauer
2001 Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (4) Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (4) Template:Flagicon Han Hee-won
2000 Template:Flagicon Karrie Webb (2) Template:Flagicon Karrie Webb (3) Template:Flagicon Dorothy Delasin
1999 Template:Flagicon Karrie Webb Template:Flagicon Karrie Webb (2) Template:Flagicon Mi-Hyun Kim
1998 Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (3) Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (3) Template:Flagicon Pak Se-ri
1997 Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (2) Template:Flagicon Karrie Webb Template:Flagicon Lisa Hackney
1996 Template:Flagicon Laura Davies Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam (2) Template:Flagicon Karrie Webb
1995 Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam Template:Flagicon Pat Hurst
1994 Template:Flagicon Beth Daniel (3) Template:Flagicon Beth Daniel (3) Template:Flagicon Annika Sörenstam
1993 Template:Flagicon Betsy King (3) Template:Flagicon Betsy King (2) Template:Flagicon Suzanne Strudwick
1992 Template:Flagicon Dottie Mochrie Template:Flagicon Dottie Mochrie Template:Flagicon Helen Alfredsson
1991 Template:Flagicon Pat Bradley (2) Template:Flagicon Pat Bradley (2) Template:Flagicon Brandie Burton
1990 Template:Flagicon Beth Daniel (2) Template:Flagicon Beth Daniel (2) Template:Flagicon Hiromi Kobayashi
1989 Template:Flagicon Betsy King (2) Template:Flagicon Beth Daniel Template:Flagicon Pam Wright
1988 Template:Flagicon Nancy Lopez (4) Template:Flagicon Colleen Walker Template:Flagicon Liselotte Neumann
1987 Template:Flagicon Ayako Okamoto Template:Flagicon Betsy King Template:Flagicon Tammie Green
1986 Template:Flagicon Pat Bradley Template:Flagicon Pat Bradley Template:Flagicon Jody Rosenthal
1985 Template:Flagicon Nancy Lopez (3) Template:Flagicon Nancy Lopez (3) Template:Flagicon Penny Hammel
1984 Template:Flagicon Betsy King Template:Flagicon Patty Sheehan Template:Flagicon Juli Inkster
1983 Template:Flagicon Patty Sheehan Template:Flagicon JoAnne Carner (5) Template:Flagicon Stephanie Farwig
1982 Template:Flagicon JoAnne Carner (3) Template:Flagicon JoAnne Carner (4) Template:Flagicon Patti Rizzo
1981 Template:Flagicon JoAnne Carner (2) Template:Flagicon JoAnne Carner (3) Template:Flagicon Patty Sheehan
1980 Template:Flagicon Beth Daniel Template:Flagicon Amy Alcott Template:Flagicon Myra Blackwelder
1979 Template:Flagicon Nancy Lopez (2) Template:Flagicon Nancy Lopez (2) Template:Flagicon Beth Daniel
1978 Template:Flagicon Nancy Lopez Template:Flagicon Nancy Lopez Template:Flagicon Nancy Lopez
1977 Template:Flagicon Judy Rankin (2) Template:Flagicon Judy Rankin (3) Template:Flagicon Debbie Massey
1976 Template:Flagicon Judy Rankin Template:Flagicon Judy Rankin (2) Template:Flagicon Bonnie Lauer
1975 Template:Flagicon Sandra Palmer Template:Flagicon JoAnne Carner (2) Template:Flagicon Amy Alcott
1974 Template:Flagicon JoAnne Carner Template:Flagicon JoAnne Carner Template:Flagicon Jan Stephenson
1973 Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (7) Template:Flagicon Judy Rankin Template:Flagicon Laura Baugh
1972 Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (6) Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (7) Template:Flagicon Jocelyne Bourassa
1971 Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (5) Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (6) Template:Flagicon Sally Little
1970 Template:Flagicon Sandra Haynie Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (5) Template:Flagicon JoAnne Carner
1969 Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (4) Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (4) Template:Flagicon Jane Blalock
1968 Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (3) Template:Flagicon Carol Mann Template:Flagicon Sandra Post
1967 Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (2) Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (3) Template:Flagicon Sharron Moran
1966 Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth (2) Template:Flagicon Jan Ferraris
1965 – Template:Flagicon Kathy Whitworth Template:Flagicon Margie Masters
1964 – Template:Flagicon Mickey Wright (5) Template:Flagicon Susie Maxwell
1963 – Template:Flagicon Mickey Wright (4) Template:Flagicon Clifford Ann Creed
1962 – Template:Flagicon Mickey Wright (3) Template:Flagicon Mary Mills
1961 – Template:Flagicon Mickey Wright (2) –
1960 – Template:Flagicon Mickey Wright –
1959 – Template:Flagicon Betsy Rawls –
1958 – Template:Flagicon Beverly Hanson –
1957 – Template:Flagicon Louise Suggs –
1956 – Template:Flagicon Patty Berg (3) –
1955 – Template:Flagicon Patty Berg (2) –
1954 – Template:Flagicon Babe Zaharias –
1953 – Template:Flagicon Patty Berg –

Leading money winners and most events won by year

Year Player Country Earnings ($) Most wins
2025 Jeeno Thitikul Script error: No such module "flag". 7,578,330 3 – Jeeno Thitikul
2024 Jeeno Thitikul Script error: No such module "flag". 6,059,309 7 – Nelly Korda
2023 Lilia Vu Script error: No such module "flag". 3,502,303 4 – Céline Boutier, Lilia Vu
2022 Lydia Ko Script error: No such module "flag". 4,364,403 3 – Lydia Ko, Jennifer Kupcho
2021 Ko Jin-young Script error: No such module "flag". 3,502,161 5 – Ko Jin-young
2020 Ko Jin-young Script error: No such module "flag". 1,667,925 2 – Danielle Kang, Kim Sei-young
2019 Ko Jin-young Script error: No such module "flag". 2,773,894 4 – Ko Jin-young
2018 Ariya Jutanugarn Script error: No such module "flag". 2,743,949 3 – Ariya Jutanugarn, Park Sung-hyun
2017 Park Sung-hyun Script error: No such module "flag". 2,335,883 3 – Shanshan Feng, Kim In-Kyung
2016 Ariya Jutanugarn Script error: No such module "flag". 2,550,928 5 – Ariya Jutanugarn
2015 Lydia Ko Script error: No such module "flag". 2,800,802 5 – Lydia Ko, Inbee Park
2014 Stacy Lewis Script error: No such module "flag". 2,539,039 3 – Lydia Ko, Stacy Lewis, Inbee Park
2013 Inbee Park Script error: No such module "flag". 2,456,619 6 – Inbee Park
2012 Inbee Park Script error: No such module "flag". 2,287,080 4 – Stacy Lewis
2011 Yani Tseng Script error: No such module "flag". 2,921,713 7 – Yani Tseng
2010 Choi Na-yeon Script error: No such module "flag". 1,871,166 5 – Ai Miyazato
2009 Jiyai Shin Script error: No such module "flag". 1,807,334 3 – Jiyai Shin, Lorena Ochoa
2008 Lorena Ochoa Script error: No such module "flag". 2,754,660 7 – Lorena Ochoa
2007 Lorena Ochoa Script error: No such module "flag". 4,364,994 8 – Lorena Ochoa
2006 Lorena Ochoa Script error: No such module "flag". 2,592,872 6 – Lorena Ochoa
2005 Annika Sörenstam Script error: No such module "flag". 2,588,240 10 – Annika Sörenstam
2004 Annika Sörenstam Script error: No such module "flag". 2,544,707 8 – Annika Sörenstam
2003 Annika Sörenstam Script error: No such module "flag". 2,029,506 6 – Annika Sörenstam
2002 Annika Sörenstam Script error: No such module "flag". 2,863,904 11 – Annika Sörenstam
2001 Annika Sörenstam Script error: No such module "flag". 2,105,868 8 – Annika Sörenstam
2000 Karrie Webb Script error: No such module "flag". 1,876,853 7 – Karrie Webb
1999 Karrie Webb Script error: No such module "flag". 1,591,959 6 – Karrie Webb
1998 Annika Sörenstam Script error: No such module "flag". 1,092,748 4 – Annika Sörenstam, Pak Se-ri
1997 Annika Sörenstam Script error: No such module "flag". 1,236,789 6 – Annika Sörenstam
1996 Karrie Webb Script error: No such module "flag". 1,002,000 4 – Laura Davies, Dottie Pepper, Karrie Webb
1995 Annika Sörenstam Script error: No such module "flag". 666,533 3 – Annika Sörenstam
1994 Laura Davies Script error: No such module "flag". 687,201 4 – Beth Daniel
1993 Betsy King Script error: No such module "flag". 595,992 3 – Brandie Burton
1992 Dottie Mochrie Script error: No such module "flag". 693,335 4 – Dottie Mochrie
1991 Pat Bradley Script error: No such module "flag". 763,118 4 – Pat Bradley, Meg Mallon
1990 Beth Daniel Script error: No such module "flag". 863,578 7 – Beth Daniel
1989 Betsy King Script error: No such module "flag". 654,132 6 – Betsy King
1988 Sherri Turner Script error: No such module "flag". 350,851 3 – 5 players (see 1)
1987 Ayako Okamoto Script error: No such module "flag". 466,034 5 – Jane Geddes
1986 Pat Bradley Script error: No such module "flag". 492,021 5 – Pat Bradley
1985 Nancy Lopez Script error: No such module "flag". 416,472 5 – Nancy Lopez
1984 Betsy King Script error: No such module "flag". 266,771 4 – Patty Sheehan, Amy Alcott
1983 JoAnne Carner Script error: No such module "flag". 291,404 4 – Pat Bradley, Patty Sheehan
1982 JoAnne Carner Script error: No such module "flag". 310,400 5 – JoAnne Carner, Beth Daniel
1981 Beth Daniel Script error: No such module "flag". 206,998 5 – Donna Caponi
1980 Beth Daniel Script error: No such module "flag". 231,000 5 – Donna Caponi, JoAnne Carner
1979 Nancy Lopez Script error: No such module "flag". 197,489 8 – Nancy Lopez
1978 Nancy Lopez Script error: No such module "flag". 189,814 9 – Nancy Lopez
1977 Judy Rankin Script error: No such module "flag". 122,890 5 – Judy Rankin, Debbie Austin
1976 Judy Rankin Script error: No such module "flag". 150,734 6 – Judy Rankin
1975 Sandra Palmer Script error: No such module "flag". 76,374 4 – Carol Mann, Sandra Haynie
1974 JoAnne Carner Script error: No such module "flag". 87,094 6 – JoAnne Carner, Sandra Haynie
1973 Kathy Whitworth Script error: No such module "flag". 82,864 7 – Kathy Whitworth
1972 Kathy Whitworth Script error: No such module "flag". 65,063 5 – Kathy Whitworth, Jane Blalock
1971 Kathy Whitworth Script error: No such module "flag". 41,181 5 – Kathy Whitworth
1970 Kathy Whitworth Script error: No such module "flag". 30,235 4 – Shirley Englehorn
1969 Carol Mann Script error: No such module "flag". 49,152 8 – Carol Mann
1968 Kathy Whitworth Script error: No such module "flag". 48,379 10 – Carol Mann, Kathy Whitworth
1967 Kathy Whitworth Script error: No such module "flag". 32,937 8 – Kathy Whitworth
1966 Kathy Whitworth Script error: No such module "flag". 33,517 9 – Kathy Whitworth
1965 Kathy Whitworth Script error: No such module "flag". 28,658 8 – Kathy Whitworth
1964 Mickey Wright Script error: No such module "flag". 29,800 11 – Mickey Wright
1963 Mickey Wright Script error: No such module "flag". 31,269 13 – Mickey Wright
1962 Mickey Wright Script error: No such module "flag". 21,641 10 – Mickey Wright
1961 Mickey Wright Script error: No such module "flag". 22,236 10 – Mickey Wright
1960 Louise Suggs Script error: No such module "flag". 16,892 6 – Mickey Wright
1959 Betsy Rawls Script error: No such module "flag". 26,774 10 – Betsy Rawls
1958 Beverly Hanson Script error: No such module "flag". 12,639 5 – Mickey Wright
1957 Patty Berg Script error: No such module "flag". 16,272 5 – Betsy Rawls, Patty Berg
1956 Marlene Hagge Script error: No such module "flag". 20,235 8 – Marlene Hagge
1955 Patty Berg Script error: No such module "flag". 16,492 6 – Patty Berg
1954 Patty Berg Script error: No such module "flag". 16,011 5 – Louise Suggs, Babe Zaharias
1953 Louise Suggs Script error: No such module "flag". 19,816 8 – Louise Suggs
1952 Betsy Rawls Script error: No such module "flag". 14,505 8 – Betsy Rawls
1951 Babe Zaharias Script error: No such module "flag". 15,087 9 – Babe Zaharias
1950 Babe Zaharias Script error: No such module "flag". 14,800 8 – Babe Zaharias

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1 The five players with three titles in 1988 were Juli Inkster, Rosie Jones, Betsy King, Nancy Lopez, and Ayako Okamoto.

Leading career money winners

The table below shows the top-10 career money leaders on the LPGA Tour (from the start of their rookie seasons) as of the 2024 season.[41]

Active players on the Tour are shown in bold.

Rank Player Country Played Earnings ($) Career
events
1 Annika Sörenstam Script error: No such module "flag". 1994–2023 22,583,693 307
2 Karrie Webb Script error: No such module "flag". 1996–2024 20,293,617 497
3 Cristie Kerr Script error: No such module "flag". 1997–2024 20,179,848 599
4 Lydia Ko Script error: No such module "flag". 2014–2024 20,143,981 245
5 Inbee Park Script error: No such module "flag". 2007–2022 18,262,344 305
6 Amy Yang Script error: No such module "flag". 2008–2024 15,848,328 350
7 Lorena Ochoa Script error: No such module "flag". 2003–2010 14,863,331 175
8 Suzann Pettersen Script error: No such module "flag". 2003–2019 14,837,578 316
9 Minjee Lee Script error: No such module "flag". 2015–2024 14,746,089 228
10 Lexi Thompson Script error: No such module "flag". 2012–2024 14,588,207 258

Historical total prize money awarded

Season Total
purse ($)
2025 133,200,000
2024 123,950,000
2020 41,300,000
(73,500,000[42][43])
2010 41,400,000
2000 38,500,000
1990 17,100,000
1980 5,150,000
1970 435,040
1960 186,700
1950 50,000

See also

References

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