The Spokane Women's Open was a professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournament on the
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekl ...
from 1959 to 1963, played in
Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canada ...
. It was held at the recently constructed Esmeralda Golf Course, a municipal facility in northeast Spokane. Originally a 72-hole event at par-72, it was reduced to 54 holes at par-70 for its final edition.
Spokane Daily Chronicle
' - Miss Whitworth wins golf title - 1963-09-09 - p.14
Winners
References
External links
Spokane Golf.org- Esmeralda Golf Club
{{Former LPGA Tour Events
Former LPGA Tour events
Golf tournaments in Washington (state)
Sports in Spokane, Washington
Women's sports in Washington (state)
Recurring sporting events established in 1959
Recurring events disestablished in 1963
1959 establishments in Washington (state)
1963 disestablishments in Washington (state)