Sybase Match Play Championship
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The Sybase Match Play Championship is professional golf
tournament played on the LPGA Tour since 2010. The tournament takes place at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey
. This event is the first match play
format tournament on the LPGA Tour schedule since 2007, when the three-year run of the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship
ended; in 2005 and 2006 it also took place at Hamilton Farm.
The title sponsor Sybase
, an enterprise software and services company headquartered in Berkeley, California
, previously sponsored the Sybase Classic
, a stroke play
event on the LPGA Tour also held in the New York-New Jersey area.
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 played on the LPGA Tour since 2010. The tournament takes place at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey
Gladstone, New Jersey
Gladstone is an unincorporated area within Peapack-Gladstone in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 07934....
. This event is the first match play
Match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...
format tournament on the LPGA Tour schedule since 2007, when the three-year run of the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship
HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship
The HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship was an LPGA Tour golf tournament that was played from 2005 through 2007. It was first played from June 30 to July 3, 2005 at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey...
ended; in 2005 and 2006 it also took place at Hamilton Farm.
The title sponsor Sybase
Sybase
Sybase, an SAP company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms....
, an enterprise software and services company headquartered in Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
, previously sponsored the Sybase Classic
Sybase Classic
The Sybase Classic was an annual golf tournament for professional female golfers on the LPGA Tour from 1990 to 2009. The event was originally known as the JAL Big Apple Classic, sponsored by Japan Airlines and presented by GOLF Magazine from 1990 until 2001. The software corporation Sybase began...
, a stroke play
Stroke play
Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf. It involves counting the total number of strokes taken on each hole during a given round, or series of rounds...
event on the LPGA Tour also held in the New York-New Jersey area.
Selection process
The 64-player field in 2010 was selected as follows:- The highest 48 ranked players from 2009 official LPGA Money List
- The highest four ranked players from the 2010 official LPGA money list at the conclusion of the Bell Micro LPGA ClassicBell Micro LPGA ClassicThe Avnet LPGA Classic is a women's progessional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour. The event is played in Mobile, Alabama, USA.The inaugural event was played from September 11 through 14, 2008, at the Magnolia Grove location on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, with total prize money of $1.4...
- The ten players with the lowest scores following the first two rounds of the Bell Micro LPGA Classic
- Two sponsor exemptions
Winners
| Year | Dates | Champion | Country | Score | Runner-up | Tournament Location |
Purse | Winner's Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 2011 in golf -Men's professional golf:Major championships*7–10 April: The Masters - South African Charl Schwartzel won his first major title with a two stroke margin over Australians Adam Scott and Jason Day.*16–19 June: U.S... |
May 19-22 | Suzann Pettersen Suzann Pettersen Suzann Pettersen is a Norwegian professional golfer. She plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour, and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Her career best world ranking is second. She has held that position at several times, most recently beginning 22 August 2011.-Amateur... |
1 up | Cristie Kerr Cristie Kerr Cristie Kerr is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She has 14 wins on the LPGA Tour, including two major championships, and over $13 million in career earnings... |
Hamilton Farm Golf Club | $1,500,000 | $375,000 | |
| 2010 2010 in golf -Men's professional golf:Major championships*8–11 April: The Masters - American Phil Mickelson defeated Englishman Lee Westwood by three strokes. The event also marked Tiger Woods' return from a self-imposed absence after revelations of marital infidelity; he finished tied for fourth.*17–20 June: U.S... |
May 20-23 | Sun Young Yoo Sun Young Yoo Sun-Young Yoo is a South Korean female professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur career:Yoo had a distinguished amateur career. In 2001 she won the Korean Junior Golf Championship. She played on the Korean National Golf team in both 2002 and 2004. In 2004 Yoo won the Korean Amateur... |
3&1 | Angela Stanford Angela Stanford Angela Stanford is an American professional golfer who currently competes on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur career:Stanford was born in Fort Worth, Texas. As a junior golfer, she won the Fort Worth Girls Championship four times , the 1996 Texas State 4A High School Championship and the 1996 PING Texas... |
Hamilton Farm Golf Club | $1,500,000 | $375,000 |