The Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic was a women's professional golf tournament in
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
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 week ...
. It debuted in
2017
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and was played at Thornberry Creek at
Oneida, just northwest of
Green Bay. Opened in 1994,
the course is owned by the
Oneida Nation
The Oneida Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Oneida people in Wisconsin. The tribe's reservation spans parts of two counties west of the Green Bay metropolitan area. The reservation was established by treaty in 1838, and was allotted to ...
.
On August 21, 2019, the Oneida Nation announced that due to the lack of return on the investment to run the event they were not going to renew their contract with the LPGA to continue the tournament.
The 2018 event saw
Kim Sei-young
Kim Sei-young (born 21 January 1993), also known as Sei Young Kim, is a South Korean professional golfer.
Kim plays on the LPGA of Korea Tour and the LPGA Tour. She has won five times on the LPGA of Korea Tour and twelve times on the LPGA Tour ...
post the lowest to-par score (−31) and the lowest 72-hole total score (257) in LPGA Tour history.
Winners
Tournament records
References
External links
Official website(Archived)
Coverage on the LPGA Tour's official siteThornberry Creek at Oneida
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Former LPGA Tour events
Golf in Wisconsin
Sports in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Recurring sporting events established in 2017
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2019
2017 establishments in Wisconsin
2019 disestablishments in Wisconsin