The Wolverine Open was a
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 ...
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 wee ...
, played intermittently from 1955 to 1963.
LPGA Tournament Chronology 1960-1969
/ref> It was played at three courses in the Detroit
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, Michigan
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area: Forest Lake Country Club in Bloomfield Hills
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in 1955, Lochmoor Club in Grosse Pointe Woods
Grosse Pointe Woods is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 16,135 at the 2010 census.
The city is a northeastern suburb of Metro Detroit and shares a small southern border with the city of Detroit. It is ...
in 1957, and Hillcrest Golf & Country Club in Mount Clemens
Mount Clemens is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 16,314 at the 2010 census. It is the seat of government of Macomb County.
History
Mount Clemens was first surveyed in 1795 after the American Revolutionary War by Chris ...
in 1960 and 1963.
Winners
*1963 Kathy Whitworth
Kathrynne Ann Whitworth (September 27, 1939 – December 24, 2022) was an American professional golfer. During her playing career she won 88 LPGA Tour tournaments, more than anyone else on the LPGA or PGA Tours. Whitworth was also a runner-up ...
*1961-62 ''No tournament''
*1960 Joyce Ziske
Joyce Ziske (born May 20, 1934 and also known as Joyce Ziske Malison) is an American professional golfer.
As an amateur, Ziske won the Wisconsin Women's Amateur twice and the North and South Women's Amateur. She played on the 1954 Curtis Cup tea ...
*1958-59 ''No tournament''
*1957 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 ...
*1956 ''No tournament''
*1955 Fay Crocker
Fay Crocker (2 August 1914 – 16 September 1983) was a Uruguayan professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. In her career, she won 11 LPGA tournaments, including two major championships, the 1955 U.S. Women's Open and 1960 Titleholder ...
References
Former LPGA Tour events
Golf in Michigan
History of women in Michigan
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