1950 LPGA Tour

The 1950 LPGA Tour was the first official season of the LPGA Tour. The season ran from January 19 to October 21. It consisted of 15 official money events. Babe Zaharias won the most tournaments, six. She also led the money list with earnings of $14,800.

The tournament results are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1950 season.^[1] "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold. Note that the LPGA recognizes several pre-1950 tournaments as official wins.

Date	Tournament	Location	Winner	Score	Purse ($)	1st prize ($)
Jan 22	Tampa Open	Florida	Polly Riley (2*) (am)	295	3,500
Mar 19	Titleholders Championship	Georgia	Babe Zaharias (11)	298	1,500	700
Apr 30	Pebble Beach Weathervane	California	Babe Zaharias (12)	158	3,000	750
May 7	Chicago Weathervane	Illinois	Louise Suggs (7)	160	3,000	750
May 14	Cleveland Weathervane	Ohio	Babe Zaharias (13)	145	3,000	750
May 21	New York Weathervane	New York	Louise Suggs (8)	155	3,000	750
May 21	144 Hole Weathervane	various	Babe Zaharias (14)	629	5,000	5,000
May 28	Eastern Open	Massachusetts	Patty Berg (14)	217	3,000	750
Jun 24	Women's Western Open	Colorado	Babe Zaharias (15)	5 & 3	500
Aug 8	All American Open	Illinois	Babe Zaharias (16)	296	2,733	900
Aug 13	World Championship	Illinois	Babe Zaharias (17)	293	4,025	2,000
Sep 23	Sunset Hills Open	Georgia	Patty Berg (15)	217 (+1)	3,000	750
Sep 30	U.S. Women's Open	Kansas	Babe Zaharias (18)	291 (-9)	5,000	1,250
Oct 13	Texas Women's Open	Texas	Beverly Hanson (1*) (am)	1 up
Oct 21	Hardscrabble Women's Invitational	Arkansas	Patty Berg (16)	2 up

am - amateur
* - non-member at time of win

References

External links

• LPGA Tour official site