The CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenges was a 72-hole golf tournament for professional female golfers that was part 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 week ...

from 1996 through 2010. It was played at various sites in Northern California and was managed by the Bruno Event Team. In 2006 the tournament moved to its last location at the Blackhawk Country Club in Danville. In 1996 the tournament was known as the Twelve Bridges LPGA Classic. Between 1997 and

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the title sponsor was

Longs Drugs Longs Drugs is an American chain owned by parent company CVS Health with approximately 70 drugstores throughout the state of Hawaii and formerly in the Continental US. Before being acquired by parent company in 2008, it was a chain of over 500 s ...

, a drugstore chain headquartered in

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and the tournament was known as the Longs Drugs Challenge. In October 2008,

CVS/pharmacy CVS Pharmacy, Inc. is an American retail corporation. A subsidiary of CVS Health, it is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It was also known as, and originally named, the Consumer Value Store and was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts, in ...

completed its purchase of the Longs chain and took over the sponsorship of the tournament, renamed the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge for 2009. CVS sponsored the tournament for two years before dropping its support; the final year was 2010. Tournament names through the years: *1996: Twelve Bridges LPGA Classic *1997–2008: Longs Drugs Challenge *2009–2010: CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge

Winners

¹ Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.

Tournament record

External links

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LPGA official microsite
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