CIGNA Golf Classic

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The CIGNA Chip in For A Cure Golf Classic is an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the FUTURES Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour. The event has been played since 1999 in the Hartford, Connecticut area.

The title sponsor since 2005 has been CIGNA, an insurance company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Tournament is a 54-hole event, as are most FUTURES Tour tournaments, and includes pre-tournament pro-am opportunities, in which local amateur golfers can play with the professional golfers from the Tour as a benefit for local charities. The benefiting charities from the CIGNA Golf Classic are various breast cancer charities in the Hartford area.

Tournament names through the years:

1999: SNET Women's Classic
2000: Connecticut FUTURES Golf Classic
2001-2003: Lincoln Financial FUTURES Golf Classic
2004: GMAC FUTURES Golf Classic
2005-: CIGNA Golf Classic

The tournament was last held from July 13 through July 15, 2007.

[edit] Winners

Year	Champion	Country	Score	Tournament Location	Purse	Winner's Share
2007*	Taylor Leon	United States	215 (-1)	Gillette Ridge Golf Club	$80,000	$11,200
2006	Song-Hee Kim	South Korea	216 (E)	Gillette Ridge Golf Club	$70,000	$9,800
2005^	Virada Nirapathpongporn	Thailand	142 (-2)	Gillette Ridge Golf Club	$70,000	$9,800
2004	Nicole Perrot	Chile	209 (-4)	Blue Fox Run Golf Course	$70,000	$9,800
2003	Stacy Prammanasudh	United States	203 (-10)	Blue Fox Run Golf Course	$60,000	$8,400
2002	Linda Ishii	Japan	208 (-5)	Blue Fox Run Golf Course	$60,000	$8,400
2001*	Kathryn Cusick	United States	212 (-1)	Blue Fox Run Golf Course	$60,000	$8,400
2000^*	Christel Tomori	United States	140 (-2)	Blue Fox Run Golf Course	$50,000	$7,000
1999	Riko Higashio	Japan	206 (-7)	Blue Fox Run Golf Course	$50,000	$6,600