The Royal Crown 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 wi ...

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 weekl ...

from 1959 to 1961. It was played at the Country Club of Columbus in

Columbus, Georgia Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama. It is the county seat of Muscogee County, with which it ...

Winners

;Columbus Open *1961

Mickey Wright Mary Kathryn "Mickey" Wright (February 14, 1935 – February 17, 2020) was an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. She became a member of the tour in 1955 and won 82 LPGA Tour career events including 13 major champions ...

;Royal Crown Open *1960 Wiffi Smith *1959

Betsy Rawls Elizabeth Earle "Betsy" Rawls (born May 4, 1928) is an American former LPGA Tour professional golfer. She won eight major championship and 55 LPGA Tour career events. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Early life and education Ra ...

References

Former LPGA Tour events Golf in Georgia (U.S. state) Sports in Columbus, Georgia Recurring sporting events established in 1959 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1961 1959 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) 1961 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state) History of women in Georgia (U.S. state) {{ColumbusGA-stub