The LPGA Founders Cup 395


                       This Week the LPGA Founders Cup

 

 

Held at the Upper Montclair Country Club

6656 Yards Par 72

 

 

 

New Jersey

 

 

The Defending Champion is Jin Young Ko

 

 

 

 

And in the TH the Founders Champion was Max

 

 

 

Max is shy

 

Shout out to Radar who won the Wells Fargo last year

 

This week we travel to scenic New Jersey for the LPGA Founders Cup.  This tournament Honors the 13 founders of the LPGA.  First played in 2011, where Karrie Webb took home the trophy.  The last surviving Founder, Marlene Hagge, died just about a year ago.  So this will be the first running with all the founders having passed.  All 13 were inducted into the HoF as a group last year.  

 

 

 

 

 

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.  The PGA Tour could take a lesson and do something to honor and remember their history.  It would be particularly relevant given the current state of the Men’s game.

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

SlingerPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4AlternateTOTAL
EMCBOUTIER (3) 0Sagstrom -22Grant -7Maguire -6Stark MC7-32
HedgeKorda -7JY Ko -6Minjee Lee -7CIGANDA (3) -4SY Kim -6-21
WendyKorda -7Ryu H -2Ko J -6Henderson -2KIM S --20
TafKorda -7Ko L -2Ko J -6Lee M H -3THITIKUL MC7-18
MetroL Ko -2Minjee Lee -7N Korda -7Henderson -2RUFFLES -9-18
RadarN Korda -7JY Ko -6Henderson -2L Ko -2THITKUL MC7-17
ScrumsKorda -7JY KO (3) -6Henderson -2L Ko -2Stark -14
JJN Korda -7Henderson -2JY Ko -6Thitkul MC7L KO -2-8
MX2Green -5Ko L -2Korda -7Thitikul MC7Ko J -6-7
ChevyKorda -7L Ko -2H Green -5Tardy MC7TAVATANAKIT -6-7
MaxHataoka -6SY Kim -6IG Chun MC7L Ko -2JY KO -6-7
PhilN Korda -7L Ko -2M Stark MC7Henderson -2KO JY -6-4

 

 

“Everyone has a photographic memory . . . Some just don’t have film.”

~ Steven Wright