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The LPGA is an abbreviation for the '''Ladies Professional Golf Association. '''This organization, with Headquarters in Daytona Beach, FL., is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly Golf Tournament s for elite female golfers from around the world which runs from February to November each year. Other "LPGA's" exist in other countries, each with a geographical designation in its name, but the American organization is the largest and best known. The LPGA is also an organization for female club and teaching golf professionals. This is different from the position in U.S. men's professional golf, where the PGA Tour which runs the main men's professional Tours in the U.S. is independent of the club and teaching professionals organisation, the PGA Of America . The LPGA was founded in 1950 by a group of thirteen women. It is now the oldest ongoing women's professional sports organization in the United States. Carolyn Bivens is the current LPGA Commissioner. LPGA TOUR TOURNAMENTS Most of the LPGA Tour's events are held in the in France , held the preceding week. One late-season event is in South Korea , and is co-sanctioned with the LPGA Of Korea Tour , and another is in Japan . The LPGA's annual Major Championships are:
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE In its early decades the LPGA Tour was dominated by American players. Vivien Saunders of the United Kingdom became the first player living outside the United States to gain an LPGA tour card in 1969. The non-U.S. contingent is now very large, and generally has the upper hand on the course. The last time an American player topped the money list was in 1993, the last time an American led the tour in tournaments won was in 1996, and no American player has won a major other than the U.S. Women's Open since 2000. In 2006 the largest international contingents are 32 South Koreans, 14 Swedes, 11 Australians, 9 Britons (4 English, 4 Scottish, 1 Welsh), 6 Canadians and 4 Japanese. {Link without Title} OTHER TOURS ORGANISED BY THE LPGA Besides the main LPGA Tour, the LPGA operates a second-level developmental tour, the Futures Tour . Top finishers at the end of each season on that tour receive playing privileges on the main LPGA Tour for the following year. The LPGA also administers an annual Qualifying School similar to that conducted by the PGA Tour . Depending on a golfer's finish in the Qualifying School tournament, she may receive playing privileges on the LPGA Tour, the Futures Tour, or neither tour. In 2001 the LPGA established the Women's Senior Golf Tour for women aged 45 and above. POINTS SYSTEM On June 7 , 2005 , then LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw , announced that the LPGA would have a playoff system beginning in 2006 . The playoff system will be a points system in which the top 30 points scorers and two wild cards will compete for a $1 million first-place prize at the LPGA Playoffs At The ADT in Florida in November. Major winners will automatically qualify, as well as winners of other selected events. 2006 LPGA TOUR
The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the LPGA Tour including that event. SEE ALSO
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