The Tres Marias Championship is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour

LPGA

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. It has been played since 2005

2005 LPGA Tour

The 2005 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from February through December 2005. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States based Ladies Professional Golf Association...

 at Tres Marias Residential Golf Club

Country club

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 in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico

Mexico

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.

From 2005 through 2009 the title sponsor of the tournament was Corona

Corona (beer)

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, a top-selling Mexican beer

Beer

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. Lorena Ochoa

Lorena Ochoa

Lorena Ochoa Reyes is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010, and was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for over three years, from April 2007 to her retirement in May 2010...

 has won the event three times: 2006, 2008, and 2009.

The 2011 tournament was originally scheduled for April 21-24. On February 2, 2011 the LPGA announced that the tournament had been canceled because of concerns about violence in the Mexican state of Michoacan.

Tournament names

• 2005-2006: Corona Morelia Championship
• 2007-2009: Corona Championship
• 2010-present: Tres Marias Championship

Winners

Year	Dates	Champion	Country	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Tournament Location	Purse (US$ United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... )	Winner's share
2011 2011 LPGA Tour The 2011 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that began in Thailand on February 17, 2011 and had its last official event end on November 20, 2011 in Florida...	Apr 21-24	Tournament canceled in February due to security concerns
2010 2010 LPGA Tour The 2010 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that began in Thailand on February 13, 2010 and ended in Florida on December 5, 2010...	Apr 29-May 2	Ai Miyazato Ai Miyazato is a Japanese professional golfer who currently competes on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the Japan LPGA Tour . She was the top-ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings for three periods of time in 2010.-Early life and amateur career:...		63-72-71-67=273	-19	1 stroke	Tres Marias Residential Golf Club	1,300,000	195,000
2009 2009 LPGA Tour The 2009 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that took place from February through November 2009. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States based Ladies Professional Golf Association ....	Apr 23-26	Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Reyes is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010, and was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for over three years, from April 2007 to her retirement in May 2010...  (3)		69-64-67-68=267	-25	1 stroke	Tres Marias Residential Golf Club	1,300,000	195,000
2008 2008 LPGA Tour The 2008 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that took place from February through December 2008. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States based Ladies Professional Golf Association...	Apr 10-13	Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Reyes is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010, and was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for over three years, from April 2007 to her retirement in May 2010...  (2)		66-66-66-69=267	-25	11 strokes	Tres Marias Residential Golf Club	1,300,000	195,000
2007 2007 LPGA Tour The 2007 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that took place from February through December 2007. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States based Ladies Professional Golf Association...	Apr 26-29	Silvia Cavalleri Silvia Cavalleri Silvia Cavalleri is an Italian professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. She was the first Italian to win a tournament on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur career and education:...		69-68-68-66=272	-20	2 strokes	Tres Marias Residential Golf Club	1,300,000	195,000
2006 2006 LPGA Tour The 2006 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from February through December 2006. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States based Ladies Professional Golf Association...	Oct 5-8	Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Reyes is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010, and was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for over three years, from April 2007 to her retirement in May 2010...		71-64-68-69=272	-20	5 strokes	Tres Marias Residential Golf Club	1,000,000	150,000
2005 2005 LPGA Tour The 2005 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from February through December 2005. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States based Ladies Professional Golf Association...	Apr 21-24	Carin Koch Carin Koch Carin Koch is a Swedish professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S. based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour.-Amateur career:Carin Koch had a successful amateur career...		68-69-71-71=279	-9	6 strokes	Tres Marias Residential Golf Club	1,000,000	150,000

Tournament record

Year	Player	Score	Round	Course
2010	Ai Miyazato Ai Miyazato is a Japanese professional golfer who currently competes on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the Japan LPGA Tour . She was the top-ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings for three periods of time in 2010.-Early life and amateur career:...	63 (-10)	1st round	Tres Marias Residential Golf Club, par 73

External links

• LPGA official tournament microsite