The Welch's/Fry's Championship was a
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
tournament for professional female golfers that was part of the
LPGA Tour
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 ...
from 1981 to 2004. It was played at the Randolph Golf Course in
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson (; ; ) is a city in Pima County, Arizona, United States, and its county seat. It is the second-most populous city in Arizona, behind Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, with a population of 542,630 in the 2020 United States census. The Tucson ...
. From 1981 to 2002, it was played on the North Course and in 2003 and 2004 it was played on the Dell Urich Course.
It had several different title sponsors during its history.
Tournament names through the years:
*1981–1982: Arizona Copper Classic
*1983: Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Open
*1984: Tucson Conquistadores Open
*1985–1987: Circle K Tucson Open
*1988–1990: Circle K LPGA Tucson Open
*1991–1996: Ping/Welch's Championship
*1997–2002: Welch's/Circle K Championship
*2003–2004: Welch's/Fry's Championship
The last tournament was held from March 11 through March 14, 2004.
Winners
Tournament record
See also
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PING/Welch's Championship
The PING/Welch's Championship was an annual golf tournament for professional female golfers on the LPGA Tour. Founded in 1980 as the Boston Five Classic, it took place every year in the Greater Boston area from 1980 through 1997. It was played at ...
, another LPGA Tour event, played in Boston, Massachusetts (1993–1997).
References
External links
LPGA official tournament microsite
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Former LPGA Tour events
Golf tournaments in Arizona
Women's sports in Arizona
Sports competitions in Tucson, Arizona
Recurring sporting events established in 1981
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2004
1981 establishments in Arizona
2004 disestablishments in Arizona