LPGA Founders Cup 333

                        This Week the LPGA Founders Cup

Held at the Bradenton C C

6475 yards  Par 71

Florida

The Defending Champion is Rose Zhang

And in the TH the Founders Champion was EMC

This week we travel to Florida for the LPGA Founders Cup.  The LPGA has moved this event from New Jersey and the summer to the Sunshine state in the winter.  This tournament Honors the 13 founders of the LPGA.  First played in 2011, where Karrie Webb took home the trophy but no money (see Fun Fact).  The last surviving Founder, Marlene Hagge, died two years ago.   All 13 have been inducted into the HoF as a group, six have been inducted individually.  

When this tournament was first played, surviving founders would sit near the 18th green and as players finished their round, they would stop, shake hands and thank them.   You still see HoF members there representing the history of the league.

FUN FACT:  At the inaugural running in 2011, for the first time in LPGA history, the players did not receive money.  Half of the $1 million purse was donated to charity and the other half to charities chosen by the top-10 finishers.  Everyone who made the cut received “virtual” earnings for purposes of the official money list.  This was such a hit that the next year they decided to actually pay the players.

Four and an Alt

“Two wrongs don’t make a right . . . but they make a good excuse.”

~ Thomas Szasz