The Portland Classic is a women's professional golf tournament in

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on the LPGA Tour. Founded in 1972, the annual event in the Portland area is the oldest continuous event on the LPGA Tour. Tournament Golf Foundation has owned the tournament since its beginning and also managed the

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tournament on the LPGA Tour. It became a 72-hole event in

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, after decades at 54 holes. Proceeds from the tournament are donated to local children's charities; over $19 million has been donated since 1972. The tournament has had a variety of sponsors during its history.

Tournament names

* 1972: Portland Ladies Classic * 1973: Portland Ladies Open *

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

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1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

: Portland Ladies Classic * 1976: Portland Classic * 1977: LPGA National Team Championship *

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 ...

: Ping Classic Team Championship * 1979–

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C ...

: Portland Ping Team Championship * 1983–

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

: Portland Ping Championship *

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal en ...

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

: Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship *

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...

: Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship * 1991–

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: Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship *

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

: Ping-

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LPGA Golf Championship *

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LPGA Golf Championship *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

: Safeway Classic *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A ...

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2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: Safeway Classic Presented by

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: Safeway Classic Presented by

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: Portland Classic Presented by

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: Cambia Portland Classic *

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: Cambia Portland Classic Presented by JTBC *

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: Cambia Portland Classic * 2022: AmazingCre Portland Classic

History

The event began as the Portland Ladies Classic in 1972, played at the Portland Golf Club (PGC) in Raleigh Hills for its first two editions. It moved to the Columbia Edgewater Country Club, west of the

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, then returned to PGC in

. From 1977 to 1982, the tournament was a team event and its prize money was unofficial. It returned to Columbia Edgewater in 1977, then went to the adjacent Riverside Golf & Country Club in 1980. The three courses rotated as hosts for the tournament until

, when Columbia Edgewater became the site for the next 18 editions. In

, Ping became a title sponsor. From 1986 to 1995, Cellular One and

also were title sponsors, and in 1996 Safeway took over as the sole title sponsor. The event was moved up on the schedule in

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, from September to August, and the purse reached $1.7 million in

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. In

, the tournament moved to the

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near North Plains, and drew a tournament record crowd of 87,800 at the Ghost Creek Course. In 2009 and

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, the course par was increased to 72 for the tournament, as the ninth hole was modified to a par-5; the result was three consecutive reachable par-5's (8,9, & 10) which slowed the pace of play. In

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, the eighth hole was lengthened and the ninth was returned to a par-4, resulting in a par-71 course (same as public play). The ninth hole was returned to a par-5 in

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for a par-72 layout. In

, the tournament moved back to the Columbia Edgewater in Portland and expanded to 72 holes, with a reduced purse of $1.3 million. Safeway dropped its sponsorship after 2013, and Portland-based

became the presenting sponsor. In

, 17-year-old

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Monday-qualified and won the event by eight shots, the largest victory margin on tour since

, and became the tour's third-youngest winner. She was only the second Monday qualifier to win on tour and the first in fifteen years, since

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. Henderson was also the first

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to win on the LPGA Tour in fourteen years, since Lorie Kane in

, and was granted immediate tour membership. In

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, a native of

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pledged her winnings to relief efforts for

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pre-tournament. Lewis went on to win the event donating her entire $195,000 purse to hurricane relief efforts. The 2020 tournament was reduced to 54-holes due to poor air quality caused by wildfires. The 2021 tournament moved to Oregon Golf Club in

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. It was reduced to 54 holes due to rain and course conditions. In 2022, the tournament moved back to Columbia Edgewater Country Club

Venues

As of the 2022 tournament, the Classic has been held at 5 different venues: * Portland Golf Club 1972–1973, 1975–1976, 1979 * Columbia Edgewater Country Club 1974, 1977–1978, 1982–1983, 1986–1988, 1990–2008, 2013–2020, 2022 * Riverside Golf & Country Club 1980–1981, 1984–1985, 1989 *

(Ghost Creek Course) 2009–2012 * Oregon Golf Club 2021

Winners

^ rain-shortened tournament
''Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.''

Tournament record

References

External links

Coverage on LPGA Tour's official siteColumbia Edgewater Country Club
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