Fields Open in Hawaii
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The Fields Open in Hawaii was a golf
tournament for professional female golfers, played on the LPGA Tour. It was held from 2006 and 2008 at the Ko Olina Resort
in Kapolei, an incorporated community within the city of Honolulu, Hawaii
.
The tournament title sponsor was the Fields Corporation, a Japanese-based designer and manufacturer of game machines, such as Pachinko
. The tournament was not kept on the schedule after the 2008 season due to what LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens
termed an "economic downturn."
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament for professional female golfers, played on the LPGA Tour. It was held from 2006 and 2008 at the Ko Olina Resort
Ko Olina Resort
thumb|260px|Ko Olina as seen by airThe Ko Olina Resort is an area of beach and resort development on the leeward side of Oahu, Hawaii between Nanakuli and Kapolei on Farrington Highway and is part of the City and County of Honolulu. Known officially as "Ko Olina Resort & Marina", it has become a...
in Kapolei, an incorporated community within the city of Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...
.
The tournament title sponsor was the Fields Corporation, a Japanese-based designer and manufacturer of game machines, such as Pachinko
Pachinko
is a type of game originating in Japan, and used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a niche in gambling in Japan comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gambling. A pachinko machine resembles a vertical pinball machine, but...
. The tournament was not kept on the schedule after the 2008 season due to what LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens
Carolyn Bivens
Carolyn Bivens was the commissioner of the LPGA from 2005 until her resignation on July 13, 2009...
termed an "economic downturn."
Winners
| Year | Dates | Champion | Country | Score | 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.... |
Feb 21-23 | Paula Creamer Paula Creamer Paula Creamer is an American professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. As a professional, she has won 11 tournaments, including 9 LPGA Tour events. Creamer has been as high as number 2 in the Women's World Golf Rankings. She was the 2010 U.S... |
200 (-16) | $1,300,000 | $195,000 | |
| 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... |
Feb 22-24 | Stacy Prammanasudh Stacy Prammanasudh Stacy Prammanasudh is a Thai American golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur career:Stacy was born in Enid, Oklahoma to an American mother and a native Thai father who immigrated to the United States from Thailand... |
202 (-14) | $1,200,000 | $180,000 | |
| 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... |
Feb 23-25 | Meena Lee Meena Lee Meena Lee is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the United States-based LPGA Tour.Lee was born in Jeonju, South Korea. She took up golf at the age of fourteen, which is unusually late for a future professional golfer, but just a few years later, in 2000, she became the Korean Amateur... |
202 (-14) | $1,100,000 | $165,000 |
Tournament record
| Year | Player | Score | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 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... |
64 (-8) | 1st round |
| 2008 | Jeong Jang Jeong Jang Jeong Jang is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She is also a member of the LPGA of Korea Tour.Jang was born in Daejeon, South Korea. She started playing golf at the age of thirteen. As a teenager she won the 1997 Korea Women's Open and the 1998 Korea... |
64 (-8) | 1st round |
| 2008 | 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... |
64 (-8) | 2nd round |