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The

LPGA Tour Legends

announced in December

that a major championship

would be added to the 2017

schedule. The inaugural

Senior LPGA Championship

will be held on French Lick

Resort’s Pete Dye Course,

beginning Monday, July 10

and finishing on Wednesday,

July 12. A field of 81 women

will be vying for a piece of

the $600,000 total purse.

The Senior LPGA Champ-

ionship will cap off a week

of women’s golf in southern

Indiana. The Symetra Tour

will also host a 54-hole

tournament on French Lick’s

Donald Ross course Friday-

Sunday, July 7-9, prior to

the start of the Legends Tour

event.

The SymetraTour is comprised

of the best young women

golfers looking to make it to

the LPGA Tour. The Symetra

Tour event will have a total

purse of $200,000, with

$30,000 going to the winner.

The Pete Dye Course at French

Lick has hosted The Legends

Championship for the past

four seasons. In August 2016,

Trish Johnson defeated the

defending champion, Julie

Inkster, in a six-hole playoff.

Laurie Rinker won in 2014

and Lorie Kane captured the

title in 2013.

LPGA Tour Commissioner,

Michael Whan said,

“This is a landmark event

for the LPGA because it

provides a larger platform

to celebrate the legends of

the game. With the USGA’s

recently announced U.S.

Senior Women’s Open and

now our event, the women

who forged the way for

the

current

generation

will now have two major

championships each year.”

LPGA Legends Tour & French Lick

Announce New Major Tournament

By

Fred Altvater

NWO Golf Links