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The Damon Runyon Cancer Fund Tournament 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 on 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 ...
, played only in 1954.LPGA Tournament Chronology 1950-1959
It was played at Prince George's Golf Course in
Landover, Maryland Landover is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 25,998. Landover is contained between Sheriff Road and Central Avenue to the ...
.
Babe Zaharias Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (; Didrikson; June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won two gold medals and a silver in track and field at the ...
won the event.


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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Former LPGA Tour events Golf tournaments in Maryland Women's sports in Maryland Landover, Maryland 1954 establishments in Maryland 1954 disestablishments in Maryland {{Maryland-sport-stub