The 1983 LPGA Tour was the 34th 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 27 to November 13. The season consisted of 33 official money events.
Pat Bradley and
Patty Sheehan
Patty Sheehan (born October 27, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Sheehan also ...
won the most tournaments, four each.
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 ...
led the money list with earnings of $291,404.
There were nine first-time winners in 1983:
Lynn Adams
Lynn Adams is a retired American racquetball player. A native of California, Adams was one of the dominant players in the 1980s, as she was ranked #1 or #2 every pro season between 1980 and 1991.
Adams was attending Orange Coast College, and a ...
,
Lauren Howe,
Juli Inkster
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,
Alice Miller,
Lenore Muraoka
Lenore Muraoka Rittenhouse (born December 12, 1955) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquarter ...
,
Anne Marie Palli
Anne Marie Palli (born 18 April 1955) is a French professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.
Palli represented her country seven years in a row at the European Lady Junior's Team Championship, for players up to the age of 21, winning four ...
,
Lauri Peterson,
Kathy Postlewait
Kathy Postlewait (born November 11, 1949) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the ...
, and
Patti Rizzo
Patrice M. "Patti" Rizzo (born June 19, 1960) is an American professional golfer and golf instructor.
Amateur career
Rizzo was born in Hollywood, Florida. A collegiate All-American at the University of Miami, among her significant victories as ...
. This was the first year that the
Nabisco Dinah Shore
The Chevron Championship is a professional women's golf tournament. An event on the LPGA Tour, it is one of the tour's five major championships, and has traditionally been the first of the season since its elevation to major status in 1983. Fou ...
(now called the
Kraft Nabisco Championship
The Chevron Championship is a professional women's golf tournament. An event on the LPGA Tour, it is one of the tour's five major championships, and has traditionally been the first of the season since its elevation to major status in 1983. Fou ...
) was classified as an
LPGA major
Women's golf has a set of major championships which parallels that in men's golf, with the women's system newer and less stable than the men's. As of 2013, five tournaments are designated as majors in women's golf by the LPGA Tour.
LPGA majors ...
.
The tournament results and award winners are listed below.
Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1983 season.
LPGA Tournament Chronology 1980-1989
"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.
Awards
References
External links
LPGA Tour official site
1983 season coverage at golfobserver.com
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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 ...