The 1951 LPGA Tour was the second season since the
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekl ...
officially began in 1950. The season ran from January 5 to October 19. The season consisted of 19 official money events.
Babe Zaharias
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won the most tournaments, nine. She also led the money list with earnings of $15,087.
There were two first-time winners in 1951,
Pat O'Sullivan
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Early life
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, an amateur, and
Betsy Rawls
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Early life and education
Ra ...
, who won 55 LPGA events in her career.
The tournament results are listed below.
Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1951 season.
LPGA Tournament Chronology 1950-1959
"Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors
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are shown in bold.
''(a) - amateur
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''* - non-member at time of win''
References
External links
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The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekl ...