St Petersburg Open (LPGA)
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USX
Played as the USX Golf Classic. King (USA) beat Lynn Adams (USA) with a birdie at the first playoff hole. [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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Played as the USX Golf Classic. Jones (USA) beat Kathy Postlewait (USA) with a birdie at the first playoff hole, to record her second LPGA Tour win. [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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Played as the S&H Golf Classic. Second-placed Jane Crafter (Aus) finished 3 shots behind Hill (USA), who recorded the second of her two LPGA Tour wins. [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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S&H
Played as the S&H Golf Classic. Second-placed Janet Coles (USA) finished 1 shot behind Bradley (USA). [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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S&H
Played as the S&H Golf Classic. Second-placed Kay Kennedy (USA) and Mindy Moore (USA) finished 6 shots behind Miller (USA). [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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S&H
Played as the S&H Golf Classic. Second-placed Betsy King (USA) finished 1 shot behind Fergon (USA), who recorded her second LPGA Tour win. [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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S&H
Played as the S&H Golf Classic. Second-placed Patty Sheehan (USA) and Deedee Lasker (USA) finished 6 shots behind defending champion Stacy (USA). [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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S&H
Played as the S&H Golf Classic. Second-placed Patty Sheehan (USA) finished 1 shot behind Stacy (USA). [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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S&H
Played as the S&H Golf Classic. Carner (USA) beat defending champion Dot Germain (USA) with a par at the first playoff hole, to record her 30th LPGA Tour win. [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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S&H
Played as the S&H Golf Classic. Second-placed Beth Daniel (USA) and Donna Caponi (USA) finished 1 shot behind Germain (USA), who recorded her first (and only) LPGA Tour win. [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Sandra Post (Can) finished 6 shots behind defending champion Blalock (USA). [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Gloria Ehret (USA) finished 2 shots behind Blalock (USA). [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Joyce Kazmierski (USA) finished 5 shots behind Rankin (USA), who recorded her 20th LPGA Tour win. [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Carner (USA) beat Sandra Palmer (USA) with a par at the fourth playoff hole. [Seminole Lake CC, Seminole, nr St Petersburg, FL].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Sandra Post (Can) finished 1 shot behind first-time LPGA Tour winner Alcott (USA). [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Sandra Haynie (USA) finished 1 shot behind Whitworth (USA). [Seminole Lake CC, Seminole, nr St Petersburg, FL].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Marlene Hagge (USA) finished 1 shot behind Haynie (USA). [Seminole Lake CC, Seminole, nr St Petersburg, FL].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Kathy Whitworth (USA) finished 2 shots behind Mann (USA), who recorded her 30th LPGA Tour win. [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Sandra Haynie (USA) and Betsy Rawls (USA) finished 1 shot behind first-time LPGA Tour winner Ferraris (USA). [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Carol Mann (USA) finished 1 shot behind Whitworth (USA), who won this event for the third straight year. [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the Orange Blossom Classic. Marlene Hagge (USA) and Shirley Englehorn (USA) finished 1 shot behind defending champion Whitworth (USA). [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Sandra Haynie (USA) and Judy Kimball (USA) finished 1 shot behind Whitworth (USA). [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Orange Blossom Classic. Second-placed Sandra Haynie (USA) and Clifford Ann Creed (USA) finished 2 shots behind defending champion Smith (USA). [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Women's Open. Second-placed Carol Mann (USA) finished 2 shots behind Smith (USA). [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Women's Open. Second-placed Sandra Haynie (USA) finished 4 shots behind Whitworth (USA). [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Women's Open. Second-placed Betsy Rawls (USA) and Clifford Ann Creed (USA) finished 3 shots behind Faulk (USA), who recorded the last of her 10 LPGA Tour wins. [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Women's Open. Wright (USA) beat Marilynn Smith (USA) in a Monday playoff. [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Open. Second-placed Patty Berg (USA) finished 4 shots behind Suggs (USA), who recorded the last of her 61 LPGA Tour wins. [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Open. Second-placed Louise Suggs (USA) finished 4 shots behind Wright (USA). [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Open. Second-placed Mickey Wright (USA) finished 6 shots behind Hanson (USA), who recorded the last of her 17 LPGA Tour wins. [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Open. Suggs (USA) beat Mickey Wright (USA) with a birdie at the third playoff hole. [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Open. Second-placed Jackie Pung (USA) and Beverly Hanson (USA) finished 4 shots behind Rawls (USA). [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Open. Second-placed Louise Suggs (USA) finished 3 shots behind Faulk (USA), who recorded her second LPGA Tour win. [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Open. Marilynn Smith (USA) finished in second place behind first-time LPGA Tour winner Cornelius (USA). [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the St Petersburg Open. Second-placed Jackie Pung (USA) finished 1 shot behind Berg (USA). [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
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Played as the inaugural St Petersburg Open. Hanson (USA) beat Babe Zaharias (USA) with a birdie at the third playoff hole. [Sunset G&CC, St Petersburg, Florida; now called Vinoy GC].
Tournaments:
PGA Championship: the year’s second men’s major championship is hosted by Southern Hills CC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, amidst doubt as to whether reigning champion Phil Mickelson will defend his title (May 19-22).
Soudal Open: Belgium’s return to European Tour golf sees 36-hole Rinkven International GC host the Soudal Open, the country’s national open championship (May 12-15).
Who's Who:
Scottie Scheffler: bags the 2022 Masters Tournament title, and with it a fourth win in six starts on the PGA Tour and his first major championship victory.
Stephen Dodd: took the European Senior Tour’s 2021 Order of Merit honours following the abandonment due to rain of the season’s final event, the MCB Tour Championship – Mauritius (April 1-3, 2022).
Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses in Europe. From France to Spain to the Netherlands and Norway, the Golf World Top 100 panel reveals the places you have to play (published 20 October 2021).
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club "makes its tournament debut with the hosting of the Italian Open on the European Tour" by Richard Humphreys
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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