California Women's Amateur Championship is a golf championship held in

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

for the state's top women amateur golfers. It has been held since 1967 with the inaugural tournament held at

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History

The California Women's Amateur Championship has its origins as one of three women's state amateur tournaments in California. The first was run by the California Women's Golf Association from 1906 to 1920 when it was re-organized. The current California Women's Amateur Championship was officially formed in 1967 with its first tournament at

. The idea for the tournament came from Helen Lengfeld who presented the idea to S.F.B. Morse. Entrants for the first tournament were limited to 100 applicants with the lowest handicaps. Lengfeld also served as the chairman for the first event which was won by Shelley Hamlin. The tournament ran yearly at Pebble Beach from 1967 to 1986, then moved to Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel Valley. The youngest winner of the tournament was

Mina Harigae Mina Harigae (born November 1, 1989) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour. As an amateur golfer, she won the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. Harigae won the California Women's Amateur Championship for fo ...

who beat Sydney Burlison in 2001. Both were 12 years old at the time.

Winners

References

External links

*{{official, https://www.cwacgolf.org/
Past winners list
Amateur golf tournaments in the United States Women's golf tournaments Golf tournaments in California Recurring sporting events established in 1967 1967 establishments in California