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Titleholders Championship

Golf tournament formerly on the LPGA Tour

The Titleholders Championship was a women's golf tournament played from in 1937 to 1966 and again in 1972. It was later designated a major championship by the LPGA Tour.

History

The Titleholders Championship was founded in 1937. Like the Masters Tournament for men, which began a few years earlier, it was played in Augusta, Georgia, but at Augusta Country Club, not at the adjacent Augusta National Golf Club. The winners of various amateur and professional events were invited to take part, although most of the competitors were amateurs. There were very few women professionals at the time and most earned their living as club or teaching professionals.

The Titleholders itself did not offer prize money until 1948, when a prize fund of $600 was introduced, with half of the money going to the professional placing highest in the event. The tournament was discontinued after November 1966, but was revived for one year in 1972, when it was played in May at the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina. All of these stagings are now recognized as major championships by the LPGA, even though the organization was not founded until 1950.

Winners

Year	Winner	Country	Score	Runner(s)-up	Winners'
share ($)	Purse ($)	Ref
1972	Sandra Palmer		283	USA Judy Rankin, USA Mickey Wright	3,000	20,000	url=http://www.lpga.com/content/Chronology70-79.pdf	title=LPGA Tournament Chronology 1970-1979	publisher=LPGA	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102105959/http://www.lpga.com/content/Chronology70-79.pdf	archive-date=January 2, 2010	url-status=dead}}
1967–1971: No tournament
1966	Kathy Whitworth		291	USA Judy Kimball-Simon, USA Mary Mills	1,500	10,000	url=http://www.lpga.com/content/Chronology60-69.pdf	title=LPGA Tournament Chronology 1960-1969	publisher=LPGA	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629124254/http://www.lpga.com/content/Chronology60-69.pdf	archive-date=June 29, 2011	url-status=dead}}
1965	Kathy Whitworth		287	USA Peggy Wilson	1,500	10,000	url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oLszAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qfcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2524%2C7891662	work=Spokane Daily Chronicle	location=Washington	agency=Associated Press	title=Women's Golf	date=November 29, 1965	page=16}}
1964	Marilynn Smith		289	USA Mickey Wright	1,300	7,500
1963	Marilynn Smith		292PO	USA Mickey Wright	1,235	7,500
1962	Mickey Wright		295PO	USA Ruth Jessen	1,330	7,500
1961	Mickey Wright		299	USA Patty Berg, USA Louise Suggs	1,200	7,000
1960	Fay Crocker		303	USA Kathy Cornelius	1,140	6,000
1959	Louise Suggs	USA	297	USA Betsy Rawls	1,000	5,000	url=http://www.lpga.com/content/Chronology50-59.pdf	title=LPGA Tournament Chronology 1950-1959	publisher=LPGA	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102110028/http://www.lpga.com/content/Chronology50-59.pdf	archive-date=January 2, 2010	url-status=dead}}
1958	Beverly Hanson	USA	299	USA Betty Dodd	1,000	5,275
1957	Patty Berg	USA	296	USA Anne Quast (a)	1,000	5,000
1956	Louise Suggs	USA	302	USA Patty Berg	1,000	5,000
1955	Patty Berg	USA	291	USA Mary Lena Faulk	1,000	5,000
1954	Louise Suggs	USA	293	USA Patty Berg	1,000	3,000
1953	Patty Berg	USA	294	USA Betsy Rawls	1,000	2,200
1952	Babe Zaharias	USA	299	USA Betsy Rawls	1,000	2,100
1951	Pat O'Sullivan (a)	USA	301	USA Beverly Hanson		1,500
1950	Babe Zaharias	USA	298	USA Claire Doran (a)	700	1,500
1949	Peggy Kirk (a)	USA	299	USA Patty Berg, USA Dorothy Kirby (a)
1948	Patty Berg	USA	308	USA Peggy Kirk (a), USA Babe Zaharias
1947	Babe Zaharias (a)	USA	304	USA Dorothy Kirby (a)	300
1946	Louise Suggs (a)	USA	314	USA Eileen Stulb (a)
1943–45	No tournament
1942	Dorothy Kirby (a)	USA	239^	USA Eileen Stulb (a)
1941	Dorothy Kirby (a)	USA	224^	USA Helen Sigel
1940	Helen Hicks (a)	USA	336	USA Helen Dettweiler
1939	Patty Berg (a)	USA	319	USA Dorothy Kirby (a)
1938	Patty Berg (a)	USA	311	USA Jane Cothran (a)
1937	Patty Berg (a)	USA	240^	USA Dorothy Kirby (a)

(a) - denotes amateur

PO - won in playoff

^ - 54 holes

Multiple winners

This table lists the golfers who have won more than one Titleholders Championship.

Deceased Grand Slam winners ∞

Golfer	Total	Years
Patty Berg †	7	1937, 1938, 1939, 1948, 1953, 1955, 1957
Louise Suggs ∞	4	1946, 1954, 1956, 1959
Babe Zaharias †	3	1947, 1950, 1952
Dorothy Kirby †	2	1941, 1942
Mickey Wright ‡	2	1961, 1962
Marilynn Smith †	2	1963, 1964
Kathy Whitworth †	2	1965, 1966

Winners by nationality

This table lists the total number of titles won by golfers of each nationality as a major.

Nationality	Number
of wins
	27
	1

References

(November 28, 1966). "Whitworth rules Titleholders". St. Petersburg Times.
(May 30, 1972). "Palmer shreds Titleholders with 283 win". St. Petersburg Times.
"LPGA Tournament Chronology 1970-1979". LPGA.
"LPGA Tournament Chronology 1960-1969". LPGA.
(November 29, 1965). "Women's Golf". Spokane Daily Chronicle.
"LPGA Tournament Chronology 1950-1959". LPGA.
(March 21, 1949). "Peggy Kirk Wins Augusta Tourney". [[The Evening Independent]].
(March 22, 1948). "Berg Captures Titleholders Golf Tourney". [[The Spartanburg Herald]].
(March 31, 1947). "Zaharias Cops Golf Crown". [[The Milwaukee Sentinel]].
(April 13, 1946). "Suggs Wins Titleholders Golf Event". [[St. Petersburg Times]].
(April 3, 1942). "Miss Kirby Keeps Title". [[Reading Eagle]].
(April 10, 1941). "Dorothy Kirby Ties Own Golf Record". [[The Pittsburgh Press]].
(January 19, 1940). "Augusta Golf to Mrs. Harb". [[San Antonio Light]].
(January 20, 1939). "Patty Berg Again Is Augusta Winner". [[Ellensburg Daily Record]].
(January 17, 1938). "Patty Berg Races Ahead Of Golfers In Augusta Event". [[The Spartanburg Herald]].
(January 18, 1937). "Patty Berg Triumphs". [[The Montreal Gazette]].

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