The WPGA Championship of Europe was a women's professional
golf tournament on the
Ladies European Tour
The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978. It is based at Buckinghamshire Golf Club near London in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal stru ...
.
The tournament was first played in 1979 in
France, the first WPGA event held outside the
United Kingdom. It was revived 1996 at
Gleneagles in
Scotland, titled the McDonald's WPGA Championship, and was the first event on the tour to be played solely for charity.
Following the withdrawal of
McDonald's as sponsors after just four years, there was a one-year break before the tournament returned to the tour in 2001 with a new home in Wales. It was last played in
2010
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.
Winners
References
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External links
Official Ladies European Tour Website
Former Ladies European Tour events
Golf tournaments in Wales
Golf tournaments in Scotland
Defunct golf tournaments in France
Defunct golf tournaments
Annual sporting events in the United Kingdom
Recurring sporting events established in 1979
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2010
1996 establishments in Scotland
2010 disestablishments in Wales