The Sunshine Women's 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 1963.LPGA Tournament Chronology 1960-1969
/ref> It was played at the Miami Springs Country Club in

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from 1959 to 1962 and at the LeJeune Golf Club in

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in 1963.

Winners

;Sunshine Women's Open *1963

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 ...

;Sunshine Open *1962

Marilynn Smith Marilynn Louise Smith (April 13, 1929 – April 9, 2019) was an American professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA in 1950. She won two major championships and 21 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World ...

;Miami 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 ...

;MAGA Pro-Am *1960 ''No tournament'' *1959

Wiffi Smith Margaret "Wiffi" Smith (born September 28, 1936) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. Smith was born in Redlands, California. She moved to Mexico when she was 11 years old and learned to play golf there. She won several ...

References

Former LPGA Tour events Golf in Florida Sports competitions in Miami 1959 establishments in Florida 1963 disestablishments in Florida Women's sports in Florida {{Miami-stub