The 2010 Duramed Futures Tour was a series of professional women's
golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournaments held from March through September 2010 in the
United States
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. The
Futures Tour
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...
is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of 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 ...
. In 2010, total prize money on the Futures Tour was $1,920,000, the highest in the 30-year history of the Tour, and for the first time ever, played outside the USA, with one tournament in La Riviera Nayarit, Mexico.
Leading money winners
The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained membership on the LPGA Tour for the 2011 season, with those finishing in the top five positions gaining higher priority for entry into events than those finishing in positions six through ten. Finishers in positions six through ten had the option to attend LPGA Qualifying School to try to improve their membership status for 2011.
Schedule and results
The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Futures Tour including that event.
Tournaments in bold are majors
1Tournament shortened to 18 holes due to rain.
See also
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2010 LPGA Tour
The 2010 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that began in Thailand on February 13, 2010 and ended in Florida on December 5, 2010. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States-b ...
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2010 in golf
This article summarizes the highlights of professional and amateur golf in the year 2010.
Men's professional golf
Major championships
*8–11 April: The Masters - American Phil Mickelson defeated Englishman Lee Westwood by three strokes. The eve ...
External links
Official site
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Symetra Tour
Futures Tour
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...