The Babe Zaharias Open was a golf

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 tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1953 to 1967. It was played at in Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 118,296 at the 2010 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the...

 at the Beaumont Country Club from 1953 to 1964 and at the Bayou Din Golf Club from 1965 to 1967. Babe Zaharias

Babe Zaharias

Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball, and track and field...

, LPGA co-founder and Beaumont resident, hosted the tournament until her death in 1956. She won the first edition of the event.

Winners

• 1967 Marilynn Smith
  Marilynn Smith
  Marilynn Smith is an American professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA.Smith was born in Topeka, Kansas. She attended the University of Kansas and joined the LPGA Tour in its inaugural 1950 season. She won 21 events on the tour between 1954 and 1972, including two...
  
  
• 1966 Shirley Englehorn
  Shirley Englehorn
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• 1965 Marlene Hagge
  Marlene Hagge
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• 1964 Ruth Jessen
  Ruth Jessen
  Mary Ruth Jessen was an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Jessen was born in Seattle, Washington. She briefly played on the men's golf team at Seattle University....
  
  
• 1963 Mickey Wright
  Mickey Wright
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• 1962 Kathy Cornelius
  Kathy Cornelius
  Kathy Cornelius is an American golfer.Cornelius was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Florida Southern College, where she played on the men's golf team, as the school did not have a women's team at the time. She turned pro in 1953 and married golf pro Bill Cornelius the same year...
  
   and Betsy Rawls
  Betsy Rawls
  Elizabeth Earle "Betsy" Rawls is an American professional golfer.Rawls was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. After attending the University of Texas, Rawls joined the LPGA Tour in its second season in 1951. She won 55 tournaments on the tour, including eight major championships...
  
   (tie, unofficial)
• 1961 Mary Lena Faulk
  Mary Lena Faulk
  Mary Lena Faulk was an American professional golfer.Faulk was born in Chipley, Florida but at the age of 14 moved to Thomasville, Georgia where she won three consecutive Georgia Women's Amateur Matchplay Championships from 1946 to 1948.In 1953, Faulk won the U.S. Women's Amateur. In 1954 she was...
  
  
• 1960 Betsy Rawls
  Betsy Rawls
  Elizabeth Earle "Betsy" Rawls is an American professional golfer.Rawls was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. After attending the University of Texas, Rawls joined the LPGA Tour in its second season in 1951. She won 55 tournaments on the tour, including eight major championships...
  
  
• 1959 Betsy Rawls
  Betsy Rawls
  Elizabeth Earle "Betsy" Rawls is an American professional golfer.Rawls was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. After attending the University of Texas, Rawls joined the LPGA Tour in its second season in 1951. She won 55 tournaments on the tour, including eight major championships...
  
  
• 1958 Louise Suggs
  Louise Suggs
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• 1957 Marlene Hagge
  Marlene Hagge
  Marlene Hagge , also known as Marlene Bauer before her marriage, is an American professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002....
  
  
• 1956 Marlene Hagge
  Marlene Hagge
  Marlene Hagge , also known as Marlene Bauer before her marriage, is an American professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002....
  
  
• 1955 Betty Jameson
  Betty Jameson
  Elizabeth May "Betty" Jameson was an American professional golfer and one of the founders of the LPGA.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1954 Louise Suggs
  Louise Suggs
  Mae Louise Suggs is a retired professional golfer, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf.-Amateur career:Born in Atlanta, Suggs had a very successful amateur career, beginning as a teenager...
  
  
• 1953 Babe Zaharias
  Babe Zaharias
  Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball, and track and field...
  
  

See also

• Babe Zaharias Invitational
  Babe Zaharias Invitational
  The Babe Zaharias Invitational was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played only in 1976. It was played at the Tanglewood Country Club in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Judy Rankin won the event by one stroke over Jane Blalock.-See also:...
  
   - an unrelated LPGA Tour event played in Ohio
  Ohio
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  in 1976