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Epson Tour
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour. Tour membership is open to professional women golfers and to qualified amateurs. History The Futures Tour was founded in Florida in 1981 as the "Tampa Bay Mini Tour". It officially became the ''Futures Golf Tour'' in 1983 and in 1999 become a national tour designated as the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour (the U.S.-based professional women's golf tour). Grace Park, Marilyn Lovander and Audra Burks were the first players to receive automatic LPGA Tour exempt status by finishing one, two, and three on the Futures Golf Tour Money List. The minimum age for participation was lowered to 17 prior to the 2006 season. On July 18, 2007, the LPGA announced that it had acquired the Futures Tour effective immediately, "bringing ...
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Because it is on the North American Plate, North American Tectonic Plate, Greenland is included as a part of North America geographically. North America covers an area of about , about 16.5% of Earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface. North America is the third-largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 579 million people in List of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population. In Americas (terminology)#Human ge ...
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Lorena Ochoa
Lorena Ochoa Reyes (; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican former professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks (both are LPGA Tour records), from 23 April 2007 to her retirement on 2 May 2010, at the age of 28 years old. As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world, she is considered the best Mexican golfer and the best Latin American female golfer of all time. Ochoa was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017. Childhood and amateur career Born and raised in Guadalajara, Ochoa was the third of four children of a real estate developer and an artist. She took up golf at the age of five, won her first state event at the age of six, and her first national event at seven. An 11-year-old Ochoa approached the professional Rafael Alarcón, 1979 winner of the Canadian Amateur Championship, as he worked on his game at Guadal ...
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2013 Symetra Tour
The 2013 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from February through September 2013 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. It was previously known as the Futures Tour. In 2013, total prize money on the Symetra Tour was $1,625,000. Leading money winners The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2014 season. Source Schedule and results The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event. Source Awards *Player of the Year, player who leads the money list at the end of the season ** P.K. Kongkraphan *Gaëlle Truet Rookie of the Year Award, first year player with the highest finish on the official money list ** Giulia Molinaro *Heather Wilbur Spirit Awa ...
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2014 Symetra Tour
The 2014 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from February through September 2014 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. It was previously known as the Futures Tour. In 2014, total prize money on the Symetra Tour was $2,250,000. Leading money winners The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2015 season. Source Schedule and results The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event. A $1 million bonus was to be paid by Park Sterling Bank if one player won all three Carolina tournaments in May. Source Awards *Player of the Year, player who leads the money list at the end of the season ** Marissa Steen *Gaëlle Truet Rookie of the Year Award, firs ...
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2015 Symetra Tour
The 2015 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from February through October 2015 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of 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 .... It was previously known as the Futures Tour. In 2015, total prize money on the Symetra Tour was $2,420,000. Leading money winners The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2016 season. Source Schedule and results The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event. Source Awards *Pl ...
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2016 Symetra Tour
The 2016 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from February through October 2016 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. It was previously known as the Futures Tour. In 2016, total prize money on the Symetra Tour was $3,200,000, up from $2,420,000 in 2015. Leading money winners The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2017 season. Source Schedule and results The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event: Awards *Player of the Year, player who leads the money list at the end of the season ** Madelene Sagström *Gaëlle Truet Rookie of the Year Award, first year player with the highest finish on the official money list ** Madelene Sagström M ...
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2017 Symetra Tour
The 2017 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through October 2017 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. It was previously known as the Futures Tour. In 2017, total prize money on the Symetra Tour was $2,950,000, down from $3,200,000 in 2016. Schedule and results The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event. Source Leading money winners The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2018 season. Source Awards *Player of the Year, player who leads the money list at the end of the season ** Benyapa Niphatsophon *Gaëlle Truet Rookie of the Year Award, first year player with the highest finish on the official money list ** Hannah Green * ...
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2018 Symetra Tour
The 2018 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through October 2018 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. It was previously known as the Futures Tour. Schedule and results The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event. Source Leading money winners The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2019 season: See also *2018 LPGA Tour The 2018 LPGA Tour is a series of professional golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world. The season begins in Bahamas on January 25 and ends on November 18 at the Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Florida. The tournaments are sa ... * 2018 in golf References External links * {{Symetra To ...
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2019 Symetra Tour
The 2019 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through October 2019 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. It was previously known as the Futures Tour. Schedule and results The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event. Source Leading money winners The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2020 season. Source See also *2019 LPGA Tour The 2019 LPGA Tour was a series of professional golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world. The season began at the Four Season Golf Club in Lake Buena Vista, Florida on January 17 and ended on November 24 at the Tiburón Gol ... * 2019 in golf References External links * {{S ...
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2020 Symetra Tour
The 2020 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through October 2020 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. It was previously known as the Futures Tour. Schedule and results A number of tournament were postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event. Source Leading money winners Normally, the top ten money winners at the end of the season would have gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2021 season. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviru ...
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2021 Symetra Tour
The 2021 Symetra Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through October 2021 in the United States. The Symetra Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of 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 was previously known as the Futures Tour. This was the last season of the tour sponsored by Symetra. Schedule and results The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Symetra Tour including that event. Source Leading money winners The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2022 season. Source: See also * 2021 ...
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2022 Epson Tour
The 2022 Epson Tour is a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through October 2022 in the United States. The Epson Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. It was most recently known as the Symetra Tour. Schedule and results The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the Epson Tour including that event. Source: Leading money winners The top ten money winners at the end of the season gained fully exempt cards on the LPGA Tour for the 2023 season. Source: See also *2022 LPGA Tour *2022 in golf References External links * {{Symetra Tour seasons Symetra Tour Epson Tour The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official de ...
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