The Volunteers of America Classic is a women's professional golf tournament in
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
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 April
2013
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at
Las Colinas Country Club in
Irving, northwest of
downtown Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
.
Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America (VOA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1896 that provides affordable housing and other assistance services primarily to low-income people throughout the United States. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, the organiz ...
, the title sponsor, is a faith-based nonprofit organization that provides affordable housing and other assistance, primarily to low-income people, throughout the United States.
Inbee Park
Inbee Park (, or ; born 12 July 1988) is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour. She has been the number one ranked player in the Women's World Golf Rankings for four separate runs: April 2013 ...
won the inaugural event, one stroke ahead of
Carlota Ciganda
Carlota Ciganda Machiñena (born 1 June 1990) is a professional golfer from Spain who plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She won the LET's Order of Merit (money title) in her debut season in 2012, and was also named Player of ...
,
and became its first multiple winner in 2015. In between,
Stacy Lewis won by six strokes in 2014 and set the tournament record at 268 (−16).
In
2018
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, the tournament moved north to the
Old American Golf Club in
The Colony, along
Lewisville Lake
Lewisville Lake, formerly known as Garza-Little Elm Reservoir, is a reservoir in North Texas (USA) on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Denton County near Lewisville. Originally engineered in 1927 as Lake Dallas, the reservoir was expanded i ...
.
Tournament names
*2013–2014: North Texas LPGA Shootout
*2015: Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout Presented by JTBC
*2016–2017: Volunteers of America Texas Shootout Presented by JTBC
*2018: Volunteers of America LPGA Texas Classic
*2019–2021: Volunteers of America Classic
*2022-present: The Ascendant LPGA benefitting Volunteers of America
Winners
Tournament records
References
External links
*
Coverage on LPGA Tour official siteOld American Golf ClubLas Colinas Country Club
– former host
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LPGA Tour events
Golf in Texas
Sports in Irving, Texas
Recurring sporting events established in 2013
2013 establishments in Texas
Women's sports in Texas