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. The 72-hole event made its debut in September 2007 at the Capitol Hill location on the

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, a suburb northwest of Montgomery.

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won the inaugural event on the Senator Course by one stroke over Stacy Prammanasudh. Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa then won consecutive titles, in a playoff in 2008 and by four strokes in 2009.

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won in 2010 by a single stroke and set the tournament scoring record at 269 (−19). The event saw the then youngest-ever winner of an LPGA event in 2011, with Lexi Thompson's five-stroke victory at age 16. (Amateur

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lowered the record to age 15 in

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.) In 2012,

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won her third event of the season by two strokes over Thompson, who carded a 63 (−9) on Thursday, but had a 74 (+2) on Saturday. The Senator Course at RTJ Capitol Hill converted its greens from

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in the summer of 2011. The title sponsor was

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, a manufacturer of commercial trucks, engines, and school buses. Following the 2012 event, it elected not to continue as title sponsor, and the tournament was dropped from the schedule in

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. The tournament reappeared in

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when the Yokohama Tire Corporation took over as the title sponsor. Formerly played later in the season, it was moved up in the schedule to May in

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. The LPGA Tour event in

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, last played as the

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in 2014, was held in May at an RTJ Golf Trail course.

Tournament names

*2007: Navistar LPGA Classic *2008: Navistar LPGA Classic Presented by MaxxForce *2009–2011: Navistar LPGA Classic Presented by Monaco RV *2012: Navistar LPGA Classic *2014–2016: Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic

Course layout

Capitol Hill, Senator Course (2014) Source:

Winners

¹ Thompson, age 16, was not an LPGA member at the time of this win in 2011.
² Won in a three-player sudden-death playoff in 2008 on the second extra hole.

Tournament records

References

External links

*
LPGA Tour
- official tournament microsite
Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail: Capitol Hill
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