The Hawaiian Ladies Open was a
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 ...
tournament on 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 ...
from 1987 to 2001.
LPGA Tournament Chronology 2000-2008
It was played at three different courses on the Hawaii
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an island of Oahu
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.
Tournament courses
*1987–1989 Turtle Bay Resort
The Turtle Bay Resort is a resort with cottages on the North Shore of Oahu island in Hawaii.
Description
The resort is about a 50-minute drive from Honolulu, between Kahuku, Hawaii to the east and Kawela Bay, Hawaii to the west. The resort o ...
, Kahuku, Hawaii
Kahuku () is a census-designated place (CDP) in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. In the Hawaiian language, ''ka huku'' means "the projection", presumably a reference to Kahuku Point nearby, the northernmost point of land on the island of Oahu. As ...
*1990–1995 Ko Olina Golf Club, 'Ewa Beach, Hawaii
*1996–2001 Kapolei Golf Course, Kapolei, Hawaii
Kapolei () is a planned community in Honolulu County, Hawaiʻi, United States, on the island of Oʻahu. It is colloquially known as the "second city" of Oʻahu, in relation to Honolulu. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau ...
Winners
;Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
*2001 Catriona Matthew
*2000 Betsy King
:''Betsy King was also a childhood name for Lizzie Lloyd King.''
Betsy King (born August 13, 1955) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won six major championships and 34 LPGA Tour victories in a ...
;Sunrise Hawaiian Ladies Open
*1999 Alison Nicholas
Alison Nicholas, (born 6 March 1962) is an English professional golfer.
Amateur career
Nicholas was born in Gibraltar. She was educated at the School of St Mary and St Anne (now Abbots Bromley School for Girls). She enjoyed a very successful ...
;Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
*1998 Wendy Ward
Wendy Ward (born May 6, 1973) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.
Early life, education and amateur career
Ward was born in San Antonio, Texas.
She attended Arizona State University where she had a successful Nationa ...
*1997 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 ...
*1996 Meg Mallon
Meg Mallon (born April 14, 1963) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1987 and won 18 LPGA Tour events, including four major championships, during her career. Mallon was inducted into the World Golf Hall o ...
*1995 Barb Thomas
Barb Thomas Whitehead (born January 22, 1961) 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 t ...
*1994 Marta Figueras-Dotti
Marta Figueras-Dotti (born 12 November 1957) is a retired Spanish professional golfer.
Early life
Figueras-Dotti was born in Madrid and her father was the president of the Spanish Golf Association. She started playing golf at 8 years of age.
Am ...
;Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open
*1993 Lisa Walters
*1992 Lisa Walters
;Orix Hawaiian Ladies Open
*1991 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 ...
*1990 Beth Daniel
Beth Daniel (born October 14, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1979 and won 33 LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fa ...
*1989 Sherri Turner
Sherri Turner (born October 4, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1984 and won three LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career.
Amateur career
Turner was born in Greenvil ...
;Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Open
*1988 Ayako Okamoto
is a Japanese professional golfer. She won 62 tournaments internationally, including 17 on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Early career
Okamoto was born in Akitsu, Hiroshima, now part of Higashihirosh ...
;Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Open
*1987 Cindy Rarick
Cindy Rarick (born September 12, 1959) is an American professional golfer. She competed as Cindy Flom in 1985 and from 1999 to 2001.
Amateur career
Rarick was born in Glenwood, Minnesota. In 1994, she was inducted into the Sahuaro High School A ...
References
Former LPGA Tour events
Golf in Hawaii
Sports in Oahu
History of women in Hawaii
Recurring sporting events established in 1987
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2001
1987 establishments in Hawaii
2001 disestablishments in Hawaii
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