The Sybase Match Play Championship was a women's professional

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tournament for three seasons on the

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, held at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in

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, it was the only

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format event on the LPGA Tour schedule. The previous match play tournament was the

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, played from

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, with all three events at Hamilton Farm. The title sponsor was

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, an enterprise software and services company headquartered in Dublin, California. It previously sponsored the Sybase Classic, a

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event on the LPGA Tour also held in the New York-New Jersey area through

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. Sybase was acquired by

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in 2010, which elected not to continue as title sponsor in

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won her first title on the LPGA Tour at the final edition in

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Selection process

The 64-player field for the 2012 event was selected as follows: * Top 48 players from Category 1 on the 2012 LPGA Priority List (

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final money list plus medical exemptions) * Two (2) sponsor invites * Top two (2) finishers, not otherwise qualified, after the 2nd round of the

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(April 26-27) *Top twelve (12) players from the 2012 LPGA Official Money List at the conclusion of the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic (April 29), not otherwise qualified

Schedule

A six-round event scheduled over four days, one round each was played on Thursday and Friday to reduce the field from 64 to 16 for Saturday. Two rounds were scheduled for each day on the weekend, with morning and afternoon sessions.

2012 course layout

Hamilton Farm Golf Club (Reflects the layout for the LPGA event; the nines are switched for HFGC members.)

Winners

Prize money breakdown

References

External links

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LPGA official websiteLPGA official tournament micrositeHamilton Farm Golf Club.com
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