El Paso Golf Classic
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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. 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:
FUTURES Tour
The LPGA Futures Tour, previously styled in uppercase as FUTURES Tour and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed FUTURES Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour...
, the LPGA
LPGA
The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters is in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from...
'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
El Paso, Texas
El Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States...
.
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. 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:
- 2002: El Paso FUTURES Golf Classic
- 2003-2006: IOS Golf Classic
- 2007-2008: El Paso Golf Classic
Winners
| Year | Date | Champion | Country | Score | Tournament Location |
Purse | Winner's Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 2008 in golf -Men's professional golf:Major championships*10–13 April: The Masters - South African Trevor Immelman won his first major by a three-stroke margin.... |
May 2-4 | Kristina Tucker | 205 (-11) | Underwood Golf Complex | $85,000 | $11,900 | |
| 2007 2007 in golf -Men's professional golf:Major championships*5-8 April: The Masters - American Zach Johnson won his first major tournament, in a high scoring week at Augusta.*14-17 June: U.S. Open - Ángel Cabrera became Argentina's first U.S... |
May 4-6 | Mo Martin Mo Martin Melissa Linda "Mo" Martin is an American female professional golfer currently playing on the Futures Tour.-College career:Martin played college golf all four years at UCLA. She graduated in 2005 with a bachelors degree in Psychology.... |
207 (-9) | Underwood Golf Complex | $80,000 | $11,200 | |
| 2006 2006 in golf -Men's professional golf:Major championships*6–9 April: The Masters - Winner: Phil Mickelson The Augusta National course was lengthened to 7,445 yards for the tournament, generating some advance controversy. For the first time since 1954 neither Jack Nicklaus nor Arnold Palmer played... |
May5-7 | Song-Hee Kim Song-Hee Kim Song-Hee Kim is a Korean female professional golfer currently playing on the United States-based LPGA Tour.-Futures Tour :*2006 Louisiana Pelican Classic, IOS Golf Classic, Aurora Health Care Championship, CIGNA Chip in For A Cure FUTURES Golf Classic, The Gettysburg Championship-Results in LPGA... |
208 (-8) | Underwood Golf Complex | $75,000 | $10,500 | |
| 2005 2005 in golf -Men's professional golf:Major championships*7-10 April: Masters Tournament - Tiger Woods defeated fellow American Chris DiMarco at the first playoff hole to claim his 4th Masters title, and his 9th major. He temporarily returned to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings.*16-19 June: U.S... |
Apr 29-May 1 | Kyeong Bae | 211 (-5) | Underwood Golf Complex | $70,000 | $9,800 | |
| 2004 2004 in golf -Major championships:*April 11 - The Masters - Phil Mickelson wins the first major of his career*June 20 - U.S. Open - Retief Goosen wins the second major -Major championships:*April 11 - The Masters - Phil Mickelson wins the first major of his career*June 20 - U.S. Open - Retief Goosen wins the... |
Apr 30-May 2 | Hong Mei Yang | 205 (-11) | Underwood Golf Complex | $70,000 | $9,800 | |
| 2003 | May 2-4 | Vicki Fergon Vicki Fergon Vicki Fergon is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Fergon won three times on the LPGA Tour between 1979 and 1996.Fergon played on the Women's Senior Golf Tour starting in 2000... |
216 (E) | Underwood Golf Complex | $70,000 | $9,800 | |
| 2002 | Apr 12-14 | Joellyn Erdmann | 204 (-12) | Underwood Golf Complex | $70,000 | $9,800 | |
Tournament records
| Year | Player | Score | Round | Course |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Michelle Fuller | 64 (-8) | 1st round | Underwood Golf Complex, par 72 |