Suntory Ladies Open
Encyclopedia
The Suntory Ladies Open is an annual golf
tournament on the LPGA of Japan Tour
. It is first played in 1990. The event is held in Hyogo
, currently at the Rokko International Golf Club. The prize fund in 2008 will ¥
80,000,000 with ¥14,400,000 going to the winner.
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 of Japan Tour
LPGA of Japan Tour
The Japan LPGA Tour is a professional golf tour for women organised by the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan. It is the second richest women's golf tour in the world. The U.S.-based LPGA Tour is the most important women's tour, but the prize money gap has closed markedly since the...
. It is first played in 1990. The event is held in Hyogo
Hyogo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region on Honshū island. The capital is Kobe.The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo.- History :...
, currently at the Rokko International Golf Club. The prize fund in 2008 will ¥
Japanese yen
The is the official currency of Japan. It is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar and the euro. It is also widely used as a reserve currency after the U.S. dollar, the euro and the pound sterling...
80,000,000 with ¥14,400,000 going to the winner.
Winners
- 2011 Ahn Sun-ju
- 2010 Akane Iijima
- 2009 Shinobu Moromizato
- 2008 Momoko UedaMomoko Uedais a female professional golfer who in 2007 at the age of 21 became the youngest player in the history of the Japan LPGA Tour to finish first on the money list. She is currently playing on the United State-based LPGA Tour.-Amateur career:...
- 2007 Zhang Na
- 2006 Nikki CampbellNikki CampbellNicola Jane "Nikki" Campbell is an Australian female golfer.Campbell was born in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. She moved with her family to Australia in 1983. At the age of 12 she began playing golf at the Federal Golf Club in Canberra. She turned pro in 2002, and has played mostly on the LPGA of...
- 2005 Yuri FudohYuri Fudohis a Japanese golfer. She was the leading money winner on the JLPGA Tour six times in a row from 2000 to 2005. She became the first player on the JLPGA Tour to earn in excess of 100 million yen, a feat she accomplished in 2000, and achieved again in 2003, 2004 and 2005.In 2003, Fudoh became the...
- 2004 Ai MiyazatoAi Miyazatois 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:...
External links
- Official site – in Japanese