The 2002 LPGA Tour was the 53rd 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 week ...
officially began in 1950. The season ran from February 28 to November 24. The season consisted of 32 official money events.
Annika Sörenstam
Annika Charlotta Sörenstam (; born 9 October 1970) is a Swedish professional golfer. She is regarded as one of the best female golfers in history. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she had won 90 intern ...
won the most tournaments, 11. She also led the money list with earnings of $2,863,904.
The season saw the first tournament with a $3,000,000 purse, the
U.S. Women's Open. There were three first-time winners in 2002:
Laura Diaz
Laura Diaz (born April 27, 1975) is an American professional golfer.
Diaz was born Laura Philo in Scotia, New York. She won the 1995 North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst. In 1996 she won the Eastern Women's Amateur Championship and mad ...
,
Cristie Kerr, and
Patricia Meunier-Lebouc.
The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.
Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 2002 season.
LPGA Tournament Chronology 2000-2008
"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 are shown in bold.
''^ – weather-shortened tournament''
Leaders
Money List leaders
''Full 2002 Official Money List''
Awards
References
External links
LPGA Tour official site
2002 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 week ...