| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Orlando, Florida |
| Established | 2011 |
| Course(s) | Grand Cypress Golf Club (North/South nines) [1] |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 6,518 yards (5,960 m) [1] |
| Tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
| Format | Stroke play - 72 holes |
| Prize fund | $1,500,000 |
| Month played | November |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 279 |
| To par | -9 |
| Current champion | |
| Hee Young Park | |
The CME Group Titleholders is a women's professional golf tournament, the season-ending event on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. It succeeds the LPGA Tour Championship, which was played for two seasons in 2009 and 2010. The CME Group Titleholders debuted in November 2011 at Grand Cypress Golf Club in Orlando, Florida, which also hosted the 2010 LPGA Tour Championship.
The title sponsor is the CME Group, a financial securities corporation based in Chicago. LPGA Commissioner Michael Whan announced on March 7, 2011, that CME had signed a three-year contract to sponsor the tournament. CME had previous experience hosting pro-am events with LPGA players.[2]
The 2011 winner will earn $500,000, a full one-third of the $1.5 million purse. The first-place money is the second-most in women's golf, exceeded only by the U.S. Women's Open. Most events on the LPGA Tour have a standard schedule for distribution of the purse, with a winner's share of 15%. The 2010 LPGA Tour Championship had the same purse of $1.5 million, with a winner's share of $225,000; it was a 120-player event with cuts after 36 and 54 holes.[3]
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The top three finishers who are LPGA members from each official LPGA tournament, not otherwise qualified, earn a spot in Titleholders. If tied, the player with the lower final round score qualifies.[4] The following table shows the three qualifiers for the Titleholders from each tournament.
Note: The following qualifiers did not play in the event: Shanshan Feng, Juli Inkster, Grace Park, Inbee Park, So Yeon Ryu, Jiyai Shin, Momoko Ueda.[5]
| Year | Dates | Champion | Country | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Course | Purse ($) |
Winner's share ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Nov 17-20 | Hee Young Park | South Korea | 71-69-69-70=279 | -9 | 2 strokes | Sandra Gal Paula Creamer |
Grand Cypress G.C. (N/S) | 1,500,000 | 500,000 |
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