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Vikki Laing
Vikki Laing (born 14 March 1981) is a Scottish professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based Futures Tour and the Ladies European Tour (LET), finishing 10th in the 2010 LET rankings. After a promising amateur career, Laing turned professional in the U.S. with high hopes in 2003 but never quite managed to fulfill her potential, as illustrated by her LET career earnings of just over £300,000. She finished runner-up five times on the LET and ALPG Tour, another professional win proving elusive after The Gettysburg Championship in 2007. Amateur career Laing is from Musselburgh, Scotland, and represented Europe in the 1997 Junior Ryder Cup and represented Great Britain & Ireland in the 2002 Curtis Cup. Representing Scotland, she finished third individually at the 1997 European Young Masters. She attended University of California, Berkeley where she won her first tournament in the fall of her freshman year, becoming just the third Bear women's golfer to earn individual medalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musselburgh
Musselburgh (; ; ) is the largest settlement in East Lothian, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, east of Edinburgh city centre. It had a population of as of . History The name Musselburgh is Old English language, Old English in origin, with ''mussel'' referring to Mussel, the shellfish.Musselburgh was famous for the mussel beds which grew in the Firth of Forth; after many years of claims that the mussels were unsafe for consumption, a movement has been started to reestablish the mussel beds as a commercial venture. The ''burgh'' element appears to derive from burh, in the same way as Edinburgh, before the introduction of formal burghs by David I of Scotland, David I. Its earliest Anglic name was ''Eskmuthe'' (Eskmouth) for its location at the mouth of the River Esk, Lothian, River Esk. Musselburgh was first settled by the Roman Britain, Romans in the years following their invasion of Scotland in 80 AD. They built a Inveresk Roman Fort, fort a little inland f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Farm Rail Classic
The LPGA State Farm Classic was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour. It was played annually from 1976 to 2011 in the Springfield, Illinois metropolitan area. From 1976 through 2006, the tournament was held at The Rail Golf Course. In 2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ... it moved to Panther Creek Country Club. Originally known as the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic, the tournament was underwritten solely by the owners of The Rail Golf Course for its first two years. A community-based not-for-profit organization took over the tournament in 1978. State Farm Insurance became the title sponsor in 1993. From 1980 until cancellation in 2011, over $2.5 million was contributed from tournament proceeds to medical and children's charities. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Women's British Open
The 2009 Women's British Open was held 30 July – 2 August at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England. It was the 33rd Women's British Open and the ninth as a Women's major golf championships, major championship on the LPGA Tour. Catriona Matthew won her only major, three strokes ahead of runner-up Karrie Webb. It was the fourth Women's British Open at Royal Lytham and the third as an LPGA major, most recently in 2006 Women's British Open, 2006. The course had also hosted ten The Open Championship, Open Championships, most recently in 2001 Open Championship, 2001. The par-72 course was set by the Ladies Golf Union at , shorter than the par-71 set-up for The Open Championship in 2001 Open Championship, 2001. Matthew became the first Scotland, Scot to win the title, just eleven weeks after giving birth to her second child in mid-May. Course layout Source: Previous lengths of the course for the Women's British Open (since 2001): * 2006 Women's British Open, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Women's Open
The Women's NSW Open (Women's New South Wales Open) is a women's professional golf tournament held in New South Wales, Australia. It was first played on the ALPG Tour in 2006. Beginning in 2018, the tournament was co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour. It was held at Oatlands Golf Club until 2018, when it moved to Coffs Harbour Golf Club and started rotating. Players compete for the Jan Stephenson Trophy, named after NSW native Jan Stephenson Jan Lynn Stephenson (born 22 December 1951) is an Australian professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1974 and won three major championships and 16 LPGA Tour events. She has 41 worldwide victories including (10) LPGA Legends .... Winners See also * New South Wales Open References External links * {{coord, -32.1523, 152.498, type:event_region:AU-NSW, display=title ALPG Tour events Ladies European Tour events Golf tournaments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Victorian Open
The Women's Victorian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Australia. It was founded in 1988 and played annually through 1992. After a 20-year hiatus it returned in 2012 as a tournament on the WPGA Tour of Australasia. This was the first time the men's Victorian Open and women's Victorian Open were held concurrently - making it the only professional golf tournament in the world where men and women played the same courses, at the same time, for equal prize money. In 2013, the men's and women's Victorian Opens moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in Barwon Heads, southwest of Melbourne, near the southwest shore of the When the tournament moved to 13th Beach Golf Links in 2013, the combined prize pool was A$300,000, with $150,000 on offer for each of the men's and women's fields. In six years, the total prize pool has increased ten-fold, with the 2019 men's and women's Victorian Open fields to be playing for a total purse of $3 million ($1.5 million each). In 2017 and 2018, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies Asian Golf Tour
The Ladies Asian Tour is a women's professional golf tour established in 2022 and successor to the Ladies Asia Golf Circuit which ran 1983–2004 and the Ladies Asian Golf Tour which ran 2005–2021. The successive tours have been sanctioned by the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation since its inception as an official Asian ladies' tour. Background By 2005 there were five established women's professional tours in the world, of which two were in Asia, namely the LPGA of Japan Tour and the LPGA of Korea Tour. Japan and South Korea are two of the top three powers in women's professional golf, alongside the United States. The Ladies Asian Tour (LAT) is effectively a tour for the rest of Asia. This is comparable to the position in men's golf, where Japan has its own Japan Golf Tour and the rest of Asia has the Asian Tour. Most of the players on the tour come from Asia, but there are also representatives of various other parts of the world. Like the other major golf tours, LAGT has been a pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China LPGA Tour
The China LPGA Tour is a professional golf tour for women organized by the China Ladies Professional Golfers' Association. Founded in late 2008, the China LPGA Tour hosted six professional events in 2009, eight events the following year, and 12 events in 2011.China LPGA Tour , Sport SE Asia By 2015 the tour had 15 events, four co-sanctioned with the and one each with the , the and the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanya Ladies Open
The Sanya Ladies Open was a golf tournament co-sanctioned by the China LPGA Tour, Ladies Asian Golf Tour and the Ladies European Tour from 2010 to 2017. It was played at the Yalong Bay Golf Club in Sanya Sanya; Chinese postal romanization, also spelled Samah is the southernmost city on Hainan Island, and one of the four prefecture-level cities of Hainan, Hainan Province in Southeast China, South China. According to the Sixth National Populati ..., China. Winners References External linksCoverage on the Ladies European Tour's official site China LPGA Tour events Former Ladies European Tour events Golf tournaments in China Sport in Hainan Recurring sporting events established in 2010 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2017 {{golf-tournament-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee-Anne Pace
Lee-Anne Pace (born 15 February 1981) is a South African professional golfer. Career Pace was born in Paarl, Western Cape. She had a successful amateur collegiate career in the United States, where she attended Murray State University and the University of Tulsa, graduating with a degree in psychology. Having turned professional in 2005, Pace played on the second tier Duramed Futures Tour in 2006 before qualifying for the LPGA Tour for 2007 at qualifying school. Having lost her card in the United States at the end of 2007, she qualified for the Ladies European Tour for 2008 via qualifying school. She made her breakthrough in 2010 with five wins at the Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open, the S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe, the Finnair Masters, the Sanya Ladies Open, and the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open. She ended the season at the top of the Order of Merit and won the LET Player of the Year. After failing to win in 2012, Pace had another big season in 2013. Pace won her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnair Masters
The Ladies Finnish Masters was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in Helsinki, Finland, between 2005 and 2011. In 2006 Finnair, the country's largest airline, became title sponsor and it changed name to the Finnair Masters. The 54-hole tournament was played every year at the Helsinki Golf Club and with a purse of €200,000 had one of the smaller prize funds on the tour. Between 2005 and 2007 the tournament was a constituent of the Volvo Cross Country Challenge, which offered a bonus pool of $100,000 for events in the Nordic region The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; ) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe, as well as the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway ..., with the added bonus of $1million should any player win all four of the Volvo Cross Country Challenge events. Winners See also * Ladies Finnish Open References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open
The Ladies Swiss Open is a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that is held in Switzerland. History The tournament was first played in 1988 and then again in 1989 near St. Moritz, and between 1990 and 1997 near Geneva. In 1990, Evelyn Orley became the first Swiss national to win the tournament. Between 2006 and 2012, Deutsche Bank was the title sponsor, and it was played in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino. After an eight-year hiatus it returned to the LET schedule again in 2020, this time near Zug and with Liechtenstein Liechtenstein (, ; ; ), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein ( ), is a Landlocked country#Doubly landlocked, doubly landlocked Swiss Standard German, German-speaking microstate in the Central European Alps, between Austria in the east ...-based VP Bank as title sponsor. Winners References External links *Ladies European Tour {{Ladies European Tour Swiss Open Golf tournaments in Switzerland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Hurst
Vicky Hurst (born June 19, 1990) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour. She turned professional as a 17-year-old in 2008, while still in high school. Playing on the Futures Tour that year, she won five times and set a Tour record for single season earnings with $93,107. Childhood and family life Hurst was born to a golfing family. While pregnant with Vicky, her mother Koko, a native Korean, was completing a round of golf at Andrews AFB near Washington, D.C. when her water broke on the 16th hole. Although winning the round, Koko left to give birth to Vicky at the base's medical center. Her father, Joe, who met Koko while he was stationed in Korea in the 1980s, was a retired Air Force colonel. He died suddenly of a massive stroke in April 2006 while Vicky, age 15, was practicing for the LPGA Ginn Open to which she had received a sponsor exemption. Hurst withdrew from the tournament and said she would dedicate the rest of her career to her f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
