The WPGA Championship of Europe was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour.
Tournament information | |
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Location | France (1979) Scotland (1996–1999) Wales (2001–2010) |
Established | 1979 |
Tour(s) | Ladies European Tour |
Format | 72-hole Stroke play |
Final year | 2010 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 274 Linda Wessberg, Kirsty Taylor |
To par | −16 Helen Alfredsson |
Final champion | |
Lee-Anne Pace |
The tournament was first played in 1979 in France, the first WPGA event held outside the United Kingdom.[1] It was revived 1996 at Gleneagles in Scotland, titled the McDonald's WPGA Championship, and was the first event on the tour to be played solely for charity.[2] Following the withdrawal of McDonald's as sponsors after just four years, there was a one-year break before the tournament returned to the tour in 2001 with a new home in Wales. It was last played in 2010.
Winners
editReferences
edit- ^ "Weekend results | Golf". The Guardian. 1 October 1979. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Women's tour welcomes new events". The Independent. 7 December 1995. Retrieved 10 March 2010.