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Q: How many past champions are in the 2023 CME Group Tour Championship field and who are they?
A: Four: Charley Hull (2016), Ariya Jutanugarn (2017), Jin Young Ko (2021, 2020), Sei Young Kim (2019)
Q: How many wins did Annika Sorenstam have in her LPGA Tour career?
A: 72
Q: How many multiple event winners have there been on the LPGA Tour during the 2023 season?
A: Five: Lilia Vu (3), Jin Young Ko (2), Celine Boutier (4), Ruoning Yin (2), Minjee Lee (2)
Q: How many Malaysian players are in the 2023 Maybank Championship and who are they?
A: Six: Alyaa Abdulghany, Jeneath Wong (a), Ashley Lau, Natasha Andrea Oon, Jing Xuen Ng (a), Kelly Tan
Q: How many automotive companies sponsor events are there on Tour?
A: Honda, Buick and BMW
Q: How many women have played in PGA TOUR events and who are they?
A: Seven: Babe Didrikson Zaharias (7), Shirley Spork (1), Annika Sorenstam (1), Suzy Whaley (1), Michelle Wie West (8), Brittany Lincicome (1) and Lexi Thompson (1)
Q: How many Epson Tour graduates have earned an Olympic Gold Medal? Who?
A: Inbee Park (2006 Epson Tour Graduate / 2016 Rio Olympics) and Nelly Korda (2016 Epson Tour Graduate / 2020 Tokyo Olympics)
Q: How many wins did Lorena Ochoa have in her LPGA Tour Career?
A: 27
Q: What year and where was the first staging of the Solheim Cup?
A: 1990; Lake Nona Golf Club
Q: Chanettee Wannasaen is the third player ever Monday qualifier to win an LPGA Tour event at the 2023 Portland Classic. Who was the last person to Monday qualify, and for what tournament and year?
A: Brooke Henderson, 2015 Portland Classic
Q: How many wins did Lorena Ochoa have in her LPGA Tour Career?
A: 27
Q: Who is the other Canadian besides Brooke Henderson to win the CPKC Women’s Open and in what year?
A: Jocelyne Bourassa, 1973 then called the La Canadienne Golf Championship
Q: The Epson Tour annually awards LPGA membership to its top players on each official season money list. In what year did they start awarding 10 LPGA Tour Cards?
A: 2008
Q: In what year did the Women’s Amateur return to Walton Heath and who was the winner of the event?
A: 1982 and England’s Kitrina Douglas defeated future three-time Ladies European Tour winner Gillian Stewart 4 and 2. But by then, the club was known and respected everywhere in the golf world.
Q: Who was the last Scot to win the Women's Scottish Open?
A: Catriona Matthew in 2013
Q: In what year did Hyo Joo Kim make her major debut at the Amundi Evian Championship?
A: 2014; She went on to win it all. Her first-round, 10-under 61 is tied for the lowest score ever recorded at a major.
Q: What is the longest running Epson Tour tournament?
A: The Twin Bridges Championship is the 39th installment. After spending 16 years at Capital Hills at Albany Golf Course, the tournament moved to Pinehaven Country Club in 2021 and that partnership with the Epson Tour still remains two years later in 2023.
Q: Jin Young Ko is playing her 11th event of the 2023 LPGA Tour season. She is one of three players on Tour this year to win multiple events (HSBC Women’s World Championship, Cognizant Founders Cup). Name the other two players that join Ko with multiple wins.
A: Lilia Vu (Honda LPGA Thailand, The Chevron Championship) and Ruoning Yin (DIO Implant LA Open, KPMG Women’s PGA Championship)
Q: Pebble Beach Golf Links is part of the famous 17-Mile Drive, which was originally designed as a local excursion route for visitors to take in the historic sights of Monterey and Pacific Grove and the scenery of what would become Pebble Beach. Who design the course and when did it open?
A: The course was designed by Jack Neville and Douglas S. Grant and opened on Feb. 22, 1919.
Q: Baltusrol played host to the 1961 U.S. Women’s Open – who was the winner and what was the margin of victory?
A: That year, a 26-year-old from San Diego named Mary Kathryn Wright, known to everyone as “Mickey,” rallied after a second-round 80 to play the weekend 3-under par and win her third Open in four years, this one by six shots over Betsy Rawls.
Q: How many Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give past champions are major winners?
A: Seven: Jennifer Kupcho (2022), Nelly Korda (2021), Brooke Henderson (2019, 2017), So Yeon Ryu (2018), Sei Young Kim (2016), Lexi Thompson (2015), Mirim Lee (2014)
Q: In what year did the LPGA acquire the Epson Tour, the official qualifying tour?
A: July 2007
Q: What year did Michelle Wie West win the U.S. Women's Open and what course?
A: 2014, Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, Course No. 2
Q: Who did Annika Sorenstam play with at the 2003 Bank of America Colonial?
A: Dean Wilson and Aaron Barber
Q: Who won two gold medals and a silver at the 1932 Olympics and 41 LPGA titles, including three U.S. Women’s Opens.
A: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Q: Which country won the inaugural International Crown event in 2014 and who was on the winning team?
A: Spain and the winning team comprised of Carlota Ciganda, Azahara Munoz, Belen Mozo and Beatriz Recari.
Q: The Epson Tour is the official qualifying tour of the LPGA, where players earn LPGA Tour membership through the Epson Tour's Race for the Card. Since 1999, the inaugural year, how many players have graduated from the Epson Tour and advanced to the LPGA Tour?
A: 182
Q: The PGA Tour has four “majors.” The Chevron Championship is one of how many “majors” on the LPGA Tour?
A: Five
Q: In what year did Brooke Henderson earn her first major title?
A: In 2016 - KPMG Women's PGA Championship while still only 18 years old.
Q: Which golfer has the the most LPGA Tour wins and how many did she earn?
A: Kathy Whitworth’s rookie year on the LPGA Tour was 1959, beginning a career that saw her notch 88 victories, making her the winningest professional golfer of all time. Six of those wins were major championships coming at the 1965 and 1966 Titleholders Championships, the 1967, 1971, and 1975 KPMG Women's PGA Championships, and the 1967 Women’s Western Open.
Q: What Prestigious Washington State Club has been selected as the site of the 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship?
A: Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Washington
| Round 4 | To Par | Thru | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrea Lee | -19 | 1:10 PM |
| T2 | Alexa Pano | -18 | 1:10 PM |
| T2 | Dewi Weber | -18 | 1:00 PM |
| T4 | Angel Yin | -17 | 1:00 PM |
| T4 | Polly Mack | -17 | 12:50 PM |