The Royal Crown Open 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 ...

from 1959 to 1961. It was played at the Country Club of Columbus in

Columbus, Georgia Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama. It is the county seat of Muscogee ...

Winners

;Columbus Open *1961

Mickey Wright Mary Kathryn "Mickey" Wright (February 14, 1935 – February 17, 2020) was an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. She became a member of the tour in 1955 and won 82 LPGA Tour career events including 13 major champions ...

;Royal Crown Open *1960 Wiffi Smith *1959

Betsy Rawls Elizabeth Earle Rawls (May 4, 1928 – October 21, 2023) was an American professional golfer who played on LPGA Tour. She won eight women's major golf championships, major championships and 55 LPGA Tour career events. She was a member of the Worl ...

References

Former LPGA Tour events Golf tournaments in Georgia (U.S. state) Women's sports in Georgia (U.S. state) Sports in Columbus, Georgia Recurring sporting events established in 1959 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1961 1959 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) 1961 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state) {{ColumbusGA-stub