El Paso Golf Classic

The El Paso Golf Classic was an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the Futures Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour. The event was a part of the Futures Tour's schedule from 2002 through 2008. It took place at the Underwood Golf Complex in El Paso, Texas.

The tournament was a 54-hole event, as are most Futures Tour tournaments, and included a pre-tournament pro-am event, in which local amateur golfers can play with the professional golfers from the Tour as a benefit for local charities. The benefiting charity for the El Paso Golf Classic was the Rotary Club of West El Paso Foundation.

From 2003 through 2006 the tournament was known as the IOS Golf Classic, with the name sponsorship held by International Outsourcing Services, or IOS, an El Paso based data services company and the largest coupon clearinghouse for grocery store retailers' and manufacturers' coupons in the United States. On March 8, 2007, 11 persons associated with IOS, including its president and chief operating officer, were indicted on wire-fraud charges and with carrying out a scheme to defraud manufacturers that use coupons to market their products to consumers.[1][2] Shortly thereafter, the Futures Tour and the El Paso tournament withdrew the name of IOS as a sponsor for the tournament and the event was renamed the El Paso Golf Classic.

Tournament names through the years:

Winners

YearDate ChampionCountryScorePurse ($)Winner's
share ($)
2008 May 2–4 Kristina Tucker  Sweden 205 (−11) 85,000 11,900
2007 May 4–6 Mo Martin  United States 207 (−9) 80,000 11,200
2006 May 5–7 Song-Hee Kim  South Korea 208 (−8)75,000 10,500
2005 Apr 29 – May 1 Kyeong Bae  South Korea 211 (−5)70,000 9,800
2004 Apr 30 – May 2 Hong Mei Yang  China 205 (−11)70,000 9,800
2003 May 2–4 Vicki Fergon  United States 216 (E)70,000 9,800
2002 Apr 12–14 Joellyn Erdmann  United States 204 (−12)70,000 9,800

Tournament records

YearPlayerScoreRound
2002 Michelle Fuller 64 (−8) 1st

References

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