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I wanted to put a list of all the players. I wasn't sure if I should put everybody? Most would be dead links anyways, but is that okay to have tons of dead links? dgrant — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgrant ( talk • contribs) 15:37, 23 January 2003 (UTC)
I redesigned the Tournament Table to change it from an HTML format to Wikitable format. I"ve been meaning to do this since I made the table back in February. At the same time, I adjusted some Tournament names to match the official names listed on [lpga.com]. The only difference is that I dropped all of the "presented by Coca-Cola/Pepsi/Lincoln Mercury," etc. title portons. These added sponsor mentions wreack havoc with the grid and I think as long as we're consistent with the naming convention, we're good to go. Sponsors are mentioned when they are included elsehwere in the title, for example "Sybase Classic" (but not "Sybase Classic Presented by Lincoln Mercury"). I haven't put in the color coding for ADT categories yet. If people want this, we/you can do it. I'm not sure how useful or attractive it was. Crunch 17:24, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I replaced the 2006 schedule with the 2007 schedule and moved the 2006 LPGA Tour to its own article. I also added a new section to this article that summarizes historical tour stats. It might be good to have a Wikipedia infobox for this but I don't have the skills. I left the categories: points, global group, winner, etc. for the 2007 schedule, although I'm not sure if the designation "points" is still being applied. Maybe someone knows more than me. The official LPGA schedule only shows winner events and unofficial events. Is it possible that the LPGA is still figuring this out? Crunch 21:24, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
The LPGA announced the new system today and I've updated the information accordingly. Crunch 01:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
"Four of the tournaments held outside North America are co-sanctioned with other professional tours." At least one more exists but does not appear in the list - the Australian Open (Feb 2013) occurs in Australia and is co-sanctioned with the European and Australian tours. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Ladies_European_Tour for verification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.60.91.148 ( talk) 04:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Why was the 2015 Tour results section removed? I understand that it also exists at 2015 LPGA Tour with more detail. Why was the shorter version removed from this article? If the decision is to include none of the 2015-specific information from this article, then the 2015 Money List leaders table should also be moved to 2015 LPGA Tour. -- Crunch ( talk) 22:58, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
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While the LPGA web site reports that it was founded in 1950 with 13 players the book
has:
It seemed clear to Zaharias, as well as to her husband, her agent, and Patty Berg, another woman pro, that women needed a golf association dedicated to developing the professional tour.
In order to set up tournaments that offered prizes, “we needed money, of course,” said Corcoran. Zaharias and her colleagues convinced the president of Wilson Sporting Goods to put up $15,000 in prize money if the association got off the ground. In January 1949 the Zahariases, Fred Corcoran, and Patty Berg met in Miami, Florida, and formed the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), with Patty Berg as its first president. A new era in women’s golf had dawned.
In the first year of its existence, the LPGA had only 6 members and sponsored just 9 tournaments offering a meager total of $15,000 in prize money. But as its founders had expected, the association grew rapidly. Now that there was a formal governing body working to promote professional women’s golf, more and more women players became interested in turning pro. Scores of new members flocked to the LPGA and corporate sponsors contributed thousands of dollars in prize money, so that by 1953 women professionals could compete in more than 20 tournaments and win prizes from a pool totaling $225,000.
Babe Zaharias was the star of the professional circuit. Between 1949 and 1952, she won more tournaments and ...
The New York Times supports a 1949 starting date though later in the year:
I did not update the article to note a 1949 starting date as some research is needed to discover the list of tournaments and to document who the first six players were. We know they included Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Patty Berg but who were the other four? The book about Zaharias I cited above mentions Peggy Kirk Bell as participating in the early years but she joined the LPGA in 1950 and also is not listed among the LPGA's 13 founders. -- Marc Kupper| talk 10:05, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
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I wanted to put a list of all the players. I wasn't sure if I should put everybody? Most would be dead links anyways, but is that okay to have tons of dead links? dgrant — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgrant ( talk • contribs) 15:37, 23 January 2003 (UTC)
I redesigned the Tournament Table to change it from an HTML format to Wikitable format. I"ve been meaning to do this since I made the table back in February. At the same time, I adjusted some Tournament names to match the official names listed on [lpga.com]. The only difference is that I dropped all of the "presented by Coca-Cola/Pepsi/Lincoln Mercury," etc. title portons. These added sponsor mentions wreack havoc with the grid and I think as long as we're consistent with the naming convention, we're good to go. Sponsors are mentioned when they are included elsehwere in the title, for example "Sybase Classic" (but not "Sybase Classic Presented by Lincoln Mercury"). I haven't put in the color coding for ADT categories yet. If people want this, we/you can do it. I'm not sure how useful or attractive it was. Crunch 17:24, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I replaced the 2006 schedule with the 2007 schedule and moved the 2006 LPGA Tour to its own article. I also added a new section to this article that summarizes historical tour stats. It might be good to have a Wikipedia infobox for this but I don't have the skills. I left the categories: points, global group, winner, etc. for the 2007 schedule, although I'm not sure if the designation "points" is still being applied. Maybe someone knows more than me. The official LPGA schedule only shows winner events and unofficial events. Is it possible that the LPGA is still figuring this out? Crunch 21:24, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
The LPGA announced the new system today and I've updated the information accordingly. Crunch 01:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
"Four of the tournaments held outside North America are co-sanctioned with other professional tours." At least one more exists but does not appear in the list - the Australian Open (Feb 2013) occurs in Australia and is co-sanctioned with the European and Australian tours. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Ladies_European_Tour for verification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.60.91.148 ( talk) 04:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Why was the 2015 Tour results section removed? I understand that it also exists at 2015 LPGA Tour with more detail. Why was the shorter version removed from this article? If the decision is to include none of the 2015-specific information from this article, then the 2015 Money List leaders table should also be moved to 2015 LPGA Tour. -- Crunch ( talk) 22:58, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
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I have just added archive links to one external link on
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While the LPGA web site reports that it was founded in 1950 with 13 players the book
has:
It seemed clear to Zaharias, as well as to her husband, her agent, and Patty Berg, another woman pro, that women needed a golf association dedicated to developing the professional tour.
In order to set up tournaments that offered prizes, “we needed money, of course,” said Corcoran. Zaharias and her colleagues convinced the president of Wilson Sporting Goods to put up $15,000 in prize money if the association got off the ground. In January 1949 the Zahariases, Fred Corcoran, and Patty Berg met in Miami, Florida, and formed the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), with Patty Berg as its first president. A new era in women’s golf had dawned.
In the first year of its existence, the LPGA had only 6 members and sponsored just 9 tournaments offering a meager total of $15,000 in prize money. But as its founders had expected, the association grew rapidly. Now that there was a formal governing body working to promote professional women’s golf, more and more women players became interested in turning pro. Scores of new members flocked to the LPGA and corporate sponsors contributed thousands of dollars in prize money, so that by 1953 women professionals could compete in more than 20 tournaments and win prizes from a pool totaling $225,000.
Babe Zaharias was the star of the professional circuit. Between 1949 and 1952, she won more tournaments and ...
The New York Times supports a 1949 starting date though later in the year:
I did not update the article to note a 1949 starting date as some research is needed to discover the list of tournaments and to document who the first six players were. We know they included Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Patty Berg but who were the other four? The book about Zaharias I cited above mentions Peggy Kirk Bell as participating in the early years but she joined the LPGA in 1950 and also is not listed among the LPGA's 13 founders. -- Marc Kupper| talk 10:05, 7 February 2018 (UTC)