The 1990 LPGA Tour was the 41st 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 19 to November 4. The season consisted of 34 official money events.
Beth Daniel
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won the most tournaments, seven. She also led the money list with earnings of $863,578.
The
Mazda LPGA Championship
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was the first tournament to offer a $1,000,000 purse and the first to have a winner's share of over $100,000. There were seven first-time winners in 1990:
Jane Crafter
Jane Crafter (born 14 December 1955) is an Australian-American professional golfer and golf broadcaster for ESPN who played on the LPGA Tour. She has had dual citizenship in Australia and the United States since 2007. Her father Brian was also a pr ...
,
Cathy Gerring
Cathy Kratzert Gerring (born April 28, 1961) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.
Born Cathy Kratzert, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, she played college golf at Ohio State University.
Gerring won three times on the LPGA To ...
,
Cathy Johnston
Cathy Johnston-Forbes ( Johnston; born December 16, 1963) is an American professional golfer.
She was born in High Point, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina.
Professional career
Johnston's rookie season on the LPGA T ...
,
Kris Monaghan
Kris Monaghan (born August 24, 1960) 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 LPGA ...
,
Barb Mucha
Barb Mucha (born December 1, 1961) is an American professional golfer.
Mucha was born in Parma Heights, Ohio. She played college golf at Michigan State University.
Prior to joining the LPGA, LPGA Tour in 1987, Mucha won six events on the Futures ...
,
Tina Purtzer, and
Maggie Will.
The tournament results and award winners are listed below.
Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1990 season.
LPGA Tournament Chronology 1990-1999
"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.
''^ - weather-shortened tournament''
Awards
References
External links
LPGA Tour official site
1990 season coverage at golfobserver.com
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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 ...