Titleholders Championship

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There have been two professional golf tournaments for women named the Titleholders Championship. The first was of the original women's majors. The current tournament is a standard event on the LPGA Tour.

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[edit] The original Titleholders Championship

[edit] History

The original Titleholders Championship was founded in 1937. Like the Masters Tournament for men, which began a few years earlier, it was played in Augusta, Georgia though at the Augusta Country Club, not at Augusta National Golf Club. The winners of various amateur and professional events were invited to take part, although most of the competitors were amateurs. There were very few women professionals at the time and most earned their living as club or teaching professionals. The Titleholders itself did not offer prize money until 1948, when a prize fund of $600 was introduced, with half of the money going to the professional placing highest in the event. The tournament was discontinued after 1966, but was revived for one year in 1972, when it was played at Southern Pines, North Carolina. All of these staging are now recognised as major championships by the LPGA, even though the organisation wasn't founded until 1950.

[edit] Winners

Fay Crocker of Uruguay was the only non-American winner.

[edit] Multiple winners

[edit] The contemporary Titleholders Championship

A different event with the same name was established in 1996 and is a stop on the LPGA Tour. Like other LPGA Tour events it is dominated by professionals but the winners of nine amateur tournaments also receive invitations.


LPGA major golf championships
Kraft Nabisco Championship| LPGA Championship | U.S. Women's Open | Women's British Open
Players with most wins | Chronological list of winners
Former LPGA majors: DuMaurier Classic| Titleholders Championship| Women's Western Open
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