The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions
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The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions, in full The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions presented by Kathy Ireland Worldwide, is a golf tournament for professional female golfers that is part of the LPGA Tour. It has been played annually since 1994 at various sites in the Southeastern United States. It is currently played at the The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail - Magnolia Grove in Mobile, Alabama.
It is one of a small number of limited field events on the LPGA Tour. Only winners of an LPGA event from the past four years, as well as active Hall of Fame members, are eligible for the tournament.
Since 2004 the title sponsor has been The Mitchell Company, a real estate development and management firm headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.
Tournament names through the years:
- 1994-1997: Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions
- 1998-2001: Lifetime's AFLAC Tournament of Champions
- 2002: Champions Presented by Southern Living
- 2003: Mobile LPGA Tournament of Champions
- 2004-present: The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions
The tournament was most recently played from November 8 through 11, 2007.
[edit] Winners
| Year | Champion | Country | Score | Tournament Location |
Purse | Winner's Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Paula Creamer |  United States |
268 (-20) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $1,000,000 | $150,000 |
| 2006 | Lorena Ochoa |  Mexico |
267 (-21) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $1,000,000 | $150,000 |
| 2005 | Christina Kim | United States |
273 (-15) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $850,000 | $138,000 |
| 2004 | Heather Daly-Donofrio | United States |
269 (-19) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $800,000 | $130,000 |
| 2003 | Dorothy Delasin | United States |
280 (-8) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 2002 | Se Ri Pak |  South Korea |
268 (-20) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 2001 | Se Ri Pak | South Korea |
272 (-16) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 2000 | Karrie Webb |  Australia |
273 (-15) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 1999 | Akiko Fukushima |  Japan |
279 (-9) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 1998 | Kelly Robbins | United States |
276 (-12) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 1997 | Annika Sörenstam |  Sweden |
272 (-16) | Weston Hills Country Club | $700,000 | $115,000 |
| 1996 | Liselotte Neumann | Sweden |
275 (-13) | Grand Cypress Resort | $725,000 | $117,500 |
| 1995 | Dawn Coe-Jones |  Canada |
281 (-7) | Grand Cypress Resort | $700,000 | $115,000 |
| 1994 | Dottie Mochrie | United States |
287 (-1) | Grand Cypress Resort | $700,000 | $115,000 |
[edit] Tournament record
| Year | Player | Score | Round | Course |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Carin Koch | 64 (-10) | 1st round | Magnolia Grove, par 72 |
