Golf tournament
Tournament information | |
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Location | France (1979) Scotland (1996–1999) Wales (2001–2010) |
Established | 1979 |
Tour(s) | Ladies European Tour |
Format | 72-hole Stroke play |
Final year | 2010 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 274 Linda Wessberg, Kirsty Taylor |
To par | −16 Helen Alfredsson |
Final champion | |
Lee-Anne Pace |
The WPGA Championship of Europe was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour.
The tournament was first played in 1979 in France, the first WPGA event held outside the United Kingdom. It was revived 1996 at Gleneagles in Scotland, titled the McDonald's WPGA Championship, and was the first event on the tour to be played solely for charity. Following the withdrawal of McDonald's as sponsors after just four years, there was a one-year break before the tournament returned to the tour in 2001 with a new home in Wales. It was last played in 2010.
Winners
References
- "Weekend results | Golf". The Guardian. 1 October 1979. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Women's tour welcomes new events". The Independent. 7 December 1995. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
External links
Categories:- Former Ladies European Tour events
- Golf tournaments in Wales
- Golf tournaments in Scotland
- Defunct golf tournaments in France
- Defunct golf tournaments
- Annual sporting events in the United Kingdom
- Recurring sporting events established in 1979
- Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2010
- 1996 establishments in Scotland
- 2010 disestablishments in Wales