The 1979 LPGA Tour was the 30th 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 February 15 to November 3 and consisted of 35 official money events.

Nancy Lopez Nancy Marie Lopez (born January 6, 1957) is an American former professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won 48 LPGA Tour events, including three major championships. Amateur career Lopez won the New Mexico Women's ...

won the most tournaments, eight, and led the money list with earnings of $197,489. There were five first-time winners in 1979:

Jerilyn Britz Jerilyn Britz (born January 1, 1943) was an American professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. She won the 1979 U.S. Women's Open. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Britz attended Minnesota State University, Mankato (then called Mankato State Univer ...

Beth Daniel Beth Daniel (born October 14, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1979 and won 33 LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fa ...

Vicki Fergon Vicki Fergon (born September 29, 1955) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. Fergon won three times on the LPGA Tour between 1979 and 1996. Fergon played on the Women's Senior Golf Tour (now Legends Tour) starting in ...

, Pat Meyers, and

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. This was the first year that the

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(now called the Canadian Women's Open) was classified as an

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Judy Rankin Judy Rankin ( Torluemke; born February 18, 1945) is an American professional golfer and golf broadcaster. A member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, she joined the LPGA Tour in 1962 at age 17 and won 26 tour events. Since 2010, Rankin has served a ...

gained her 26th victory in August, which was her final tour win. The

Women's Kemper Open The Women's Kemper Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1979 to 1992. It was played at several different courses in California and Hawaii. Tournament locations Winners *1992 Dawn Coe *1991 Deb Richard *1990 Beth Daniel *1989 Betsy Ki ...

saw the first ever five-way playoff in LPGA Tour history. It was won by

JoAnne Carner JoAnne Gunderson Carner (born April 4, 1939) is an American former professional golfer. Her 43 victories on the LPGA Tour led to her induction in the World Golf Hall of Fame. She is the only woman to have won the U.S. Girls' Junior, U.S. Women's ...

. Later in the year, The

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, was also decided in a five-way playoff. The tournament results and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1979 season.LPGA Tournament Chronology 1970-1979
"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.

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are shown in bold.

Awards

References

External links

LPGA Tour official site1979 season coverage at golfobserver.com
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