The 2012 Symetra Tour (formerly the Futures Tour) was a series of professional women's
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournaments held from March through September 2012 in the United States. It is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and 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 2012, its total prize money was $1,755,000.
Leading money winners
The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2013 season. In previous years, only the top five players received fully exempt cards while the next five receiving partial status.
Source
Schedule and results
The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event.
Source
Awards
*Player of the Year, player who leads the money list at the end of the season
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Esther Choe
*Gaëlle Truet Rookie of the Year Award, first year player with the highest finish on the official money list
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Mi Hyang Lee
Lee Mi-hyang ( ko, 이미향, born 30 March 1993), also known as Mi Hyang Lee is a South Korean professional golfer.
Lee turned professional in 2011. She earned her LPGA Tour card through qualifying school and played on both the LPGA Tour and S ...
*Heather Wilbur Spirit Award, a player who "best exemplifies dedication, courage, perseverance, love of the game and spirit toward achieving goals as a professional golfer."
** Nicole Jeray
See also
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2012 LPGA Tour
The 2012 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that began in Australia on February 9 and ended November 18 in Florida. The tournaments are sanctioned by the United States-based Ladies Pro ...
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2012 in golf
This article summarizes the highlights of professional and amateur golf in the year 2012.
Men's professional golf
Major championships
*5–8 April: The Masters – American Bubba Watson defeated South African Louis Oosthuizen on the second hol ...
References
External links
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Symetra 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 ...