Legends Tour
Encyclopedia
The Legends Tour, formerly known as the Women's Senior Golf Tour before the 2006 season, is a professional golf tour for women aged 45 and older. It is based in the United States
, and is an offshoot of the main U.S. based women's tour, the LPGA Tour. The tour was founded in 2001, and is intended to allow women to prolong their competitive golf careers on the model of the successful Champions Tour
for men. The age limit is however five years lower than on the Champions Tour.
The tour is still in its development phase. Sixteen events were held in the first six years of operation between 2001 and 2006. In addition a team event, the Handa Cup
pitting players from the United States against players from the rest of the world, was introduced in 2006.
According to the Tour's website, the tour has over 100 members, who have collectively won over 600 LPGA Tour events.
United States
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, and is an offshoot of the main U.S. based women's tour, the LPGA Tour. The tour was founded in 2001, and is intended to allow women to prolong their competitive golf careers on the model of the successful Champions Tour
Champions Tour
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...
for men. The age limit is however five years lower than on the Champions Tour.
The tour is still in its development phase. Sixteen events were held in the first six years of operation between 2001 and 2006. In addition a team event, the Handa Cup
Handa Cup
The Handa Cup is a series of senior women's golf matches between a United States team and an World Team drawn from players from the rest of the world. It was founded in 2006 and is an event on the LPGA Legends Tour.The scoring system of the event is match play...
pitting players from the United States against players from the rest of the world, was introduced in 2006.
According to the Tour's website, the tour has over 100 members, who have collectively won over 600 LPGA Tour events.
Schedule
The numbers in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Legends Tour and LPGA Tour, respectively, including that event.| Dates | Tournament | Location | Winner |
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| Apr 30-May 1 | Womens Senior National Invitational | Arizona Arizona Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix... |
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| May 19-22 | Handa Cup Handa Cup The Handa Cup is a series of senior women's golf matches between a United States team and an World Team drawn from players from the rest of the world. It was founded in 2006 and is an event on the LPGA Legends Tour.The scoring system of the event is match play... |
New Hampshire New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian... |
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| Aug 7-8 | Wendy's Charity Challenge | Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi... |
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| Sep 7 | BJ's Charity Pro-AM | Massachusetts Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010... |
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| Nov 11-13 | Legends Tour Open Championship | Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it... |
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