Navistar LPGA Classic
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The Navistar LPGA Classic Presented by Monaco RV is a women's professional golf
tournament on the LPGA Tour
. The 72-hole event made its debut in September 2007
at the Capitol Hill location on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
in Prattville
, Alabama
. Maria Hjorth
won the inaugural event on the Senator Course by one stroke over runner-up Stacy Prammanasudh
. Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa
then won consecutive titles, in a playoff in 2008 and by four strokes in 2009. Katherine Hull
won in 2010 by a single stroke and set the tournament scoring record at 269 (-19).
The title sponsor is Navistar
, a manufacturer of commercial trucks, engines, and school buses. The Senator Course at RTJ Capitol Hill converted its greens from bent grass
to Champion Bermuda grass
in the summer of 2011.
1 Won in a three-player sudden-death playoff on the second extra hole.
2 Thompson was not an LPGA member at the time this win and it is not counted as an official LPGA win.
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 on the LPGA Tour
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...
. The 72-hole event made its debut in September 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...
at the Capitol Hill location on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail is a collection of championship caliber golf courses, designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr., distributed across the state of Alabama, as part of investments by the Retirement Systems of Alabama. The Trail started with 378 holes at eight sites throughout the state,...
in Prattville
Prattville, Alabama
Prattville is a city in Autauga and Elmore counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 33,960. Nicknamed "The Fountain City" due to the many artesian wells in the area, Prattville is part of the Montgomery metropolitan statistical area and serves as...
, Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
. Maria Hjorth
Maria Hjorth
Maria Anna "Mimmi" Hjorth is a Swedish professional golfer. She attended the University of Stirling in Scotland. She won more than twenty amateur titles including the 1995 European Ladies Amateur Championship. She turned professional in 1996 and played mainly on the Ladies European Tour that year...
won the inaugural event on the Senator Course by one stroke over runner-up 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...
. Top-ranked 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...
then won consecutive titles, in a playoff in 2008 and by four strokes in 2009. Katherine Hull
Katherine Hull
Katherine Hull is an Australian professional golfer currently playing on the United States-based LPGA Tour and on the ALPG Tour.-Amateur career:...
won in 2010 by a single stroke and set the tournament scoring record at 269 (-19).
The title sponsor is Navistar
Navistar International
Navistar International Corporation is a United States-based holding company that owns the manufacturer of International brand commercial trucks, MaxxForce brand diesel engines, IC Bus school and commercial buses, Workhorse brand chassis for motor homes and step vans, and is a private label...
, a manufacturer of commercial trucks, engines, and school buses. The Senator Course at RTJ Capitol Hill converted its greens from bent grass
Agrostis
Agrostis is a genus of over 100 species belonging to the grass family Poaceae, commonly referred to as the bent grasses...
to Champion Bermuda grass
Cynodon dactylon
Cynodon dactylon , also known as Dūrvā Grass, Bermuda Grass, Dubo, Dog's Tooth Grass, Bahama Grass, Devil's Grass, Couch Grass, Indian Doab, Arugampul, Grama, and Scutch Grass, is a grass native to north and east Africa, Asia and Australia and southern Europe...
in the summer of 2011.
Tournament names
- 2007: Navistar LPGA Classic
- 2008: Navistar LPGA Classic Presented by MaxxForce
- 2009-11: Navistar LPGA Classic Presented by Monaco RV
Winners
| Year | Dates | Champion | Country | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory |
Purse ($ 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... |
Sep 15-18 | Lexi Thompson2 | 66-68-67-70=271 | -17 | 5 strokes | 1,300,000 | 195,000 | |
| 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... |
Oct 7-10 | Katherine Hull Katherine Hull Katherine Hull is an Australian professional golfer currently playing on the United States-based LPGA Tour and on the ALPG Tour.-Amateur career:... |
68-67-67-67=269 | -19 | 1 stroke | 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 .... |
Oct 1-4 | 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) |
66-68-66-70=270 | -18 | 4 strokes | 1,400,000 | 210,000 | |
| 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... |
Sep 25-28 | 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... |
67-67-69-70=273 | -15 | Playoff1 | 1,400,000 | 210,000 | |
| 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... |
Sep 27-30 | Maria Hjorth Maria Hjorth Maria Anna "Mimmi" Hjorth is a Swedish professional golfer. She attended the University of Stirling in Scotland. She won more than twenty amateur titles including the 1995 European Ladies Amateur Championship. She turned professional in 1996 and played mainly on the Ladies European Tour that year... |
70-67-70-67=274 | -14 | 1 stroke | 1,300,000 | 195,000 | |
1 Won in a three-player sudden-death playoff on the second extra hole.
2 Thompson was not an LPGA member at the time this win and it is not counted as an official LPGA win.
Tournament records
| Year | Player | Score | Round | Course |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 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... |
63 (-9) | 1st round | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill, The Senator |
| 2007 | Amy Hung Amy Hung Amy Hung is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur wins:*1992 Junior World Golf Championships *1993 Greg Norman Junior Masters... |
63 (-9) | 4th round | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill, The Senator |
| 2007 | Angela Park | 63 (-9) | 4th round | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill, The Senator |
| 2009 | Yani Tseng Yani Tseng Yani Tseng is a Taiwanese professional golfer currently playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She is the youngest player ever, male or female, to win five major championships and is currently ranked number 1 in the Women's World Golf Rankings.... |
63 (-9) | 2nd round | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill, The Senator |
| 2010 | Mika Miyazato Mika Miyazato Mika Miyazato is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour.As an amateur, Miyazato won the 2004 Japan Amateur Women's Championship at the age of 14, and was the youngest player to win the event. In the Asian Games, she won silver medals in the... |
63 (-9) | 2nd round | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, The Senator |
| 2010 | Lindsey Wright Lindsey Wright Lindsey Elizabeth Wright is an Australian professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour. She earned exempt status for the 2004 LPGA season in 2005, and has been competing full time on the Tour since.-Personal life:... |
63 (-9) | 4th round | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, The Senator |
External links
- LPGA.com - official tournament microsite