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The 2011 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that began in
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on February 17, 2011, and had its last official event end on November 20, 2011, in
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. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States–based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).


Season overview

There were 23 official tournaments on the 2011 LPGA, the lowest number in nearly 40 years. More events were held outside of the United States, with eleven different countries hosting tournaments, the highest number in the history of the LPGA Tour. Thirteen tournaments were held in the United States, the lowest number in several decades.
Yani Tseng Yani Tseng (; born 23 January 1989) is a Taiwanese professional golfer playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She is the youngest player ever, male or female, to win five major championships and was ranked number 1 in the Women's World Golf Ran ...
from Taiwan, was the dominant player on the 2011 Tour. She won seven of the 22 tournaments in which she played and had fourteen top-10 finishes. Her wins in the
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and the
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made her the youngest player ever, male or female, to win five career major tournaments. She won the LPGA money list title with $2,921,713 in official earnings; American Cristie Kerr finished second with $1,470,979. Tseng also won the Player of the Year award and the Vare Trophy given to the player with the lowest scoring average for the season. Korean Hee Kyung Seo won the Rookie of the Year award.


Changes in the 2011 season

* Three new events were announced at the start of the season: the
RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup The Cognizant Founders Cup is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour in Clifton, New Jersey. It debuted in 2011 at the Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. The tournament is de ...
in
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in March, the Imperial Springs LPGA in
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in August, and the Sunrise LPGA Taiwan Championship in October. The Imperial Springs event was postponed from early August to late September, then canceled outright on September 13. * The new
RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup The Cognizant Founders Cup is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour in Clifton, New Jersey. It debuted in 2011 at the Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. The tournament is de ...
, held in honor of the LPGA's founders, did not have a cash purse. Instead, a $1 million mock purse was awarded. This purse counted toward the players' annual money list standings, and the event carried a full points allocation toward the World Golf Rankings and LPGA season award races. The sponsor matched the $1 million purse with a donation to charity: $500,000 to LPGA-USGA Girls Golf program and $500,000 to charities of each player's choice for the top ten finishers. * The
CME Group Titleholders The CME Group Tour Championship is a women's professional golf tournament, the season-ending event of the LPGA Tour. It succeeded the LPGA Tour Championship, which was played for two seasons in 2009 and 2010. From 2011 to 2013 the tournament w ...
, the successor to the
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, had a field made up of three qualifiers from each official tour event—specifically the top three finishers who have not already qualified for the Titleholders. * The Tres Marias Championship, scheduled for April in
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, was canceled in late January because of security concerns; this created a three-week gap in the LPGA schedule. * The Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic was not played in 2011, but will return for 2012 through 2014. The Toledo area hosted the 2011 U.S. Senior Open, a major championship on the
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.


Schedule and results

*The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number wins in official money individual events on the LPGA Tour, including that event. *The "Titleholders qualifiers" column indicates the three golfers at each official event who qualify for the season-ending tournament, the
CME Group Titleholders The CME Group Tour Championship is a women's professional golf tournament, the season-ending event of the LPGA Tour. It succeeded the LPGA Tour Championship, which was played for two seasons in 2009 and 2010. From 2011 to 2013 the tournament w ...
. Tournaments in bold are majors.
1Ryu was not an LPGA member at the time of her win and her win was not counted as an official LPGA win.


Season leaders

Money list leaders
''Full 2011 Official Money List''
– navigate to "Official Money List" Scoring average leaders
''Full 2011 Scoring Average List''
– navigate to "Scoring Average"


See also

*
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2011 Ladies European Tour The 2011 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from February through December 2011. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET). The tour featu ...
* 2011 LPGA Futures Tour


References


External links


Official site
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