1969 LPGA Tour explained

Year:1969
Tour:LPGA Tour
Regular Season:
No Of Events:29
Most Wins:8 Carol Mann
Honor1:Money leader
Honoree1: Carol Mann
Honor2:Player of the Year
Honoree2: Kathy Whitworth
Honor3:Rookie of the Year
Honoree3: Jane Blalock
Prevseason:1968
Nextseason:1970

The 1969 LPGA Tour was the 20th season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from January 16 to November 2. The season consisted of 29 official money events. Carol Mann won the most tournaments, eight. She also led the money list with earnings of $49,152.

There were two first-time winners in 1969: Donna Caponi and JoAnne Carner, who would win 43 LPGA events in her career.

The tournament results and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1969 season.[1] "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.

Date Tournament Location Winner Score Purse ($) 1st prize ($)
Jan 19 JoAnne Carner (1*) (am) 216 (E) 35,000 5,200
Mar 17 Kathy Whitworth (47) 216 (+3) 15,000 2,250
Mar 23 Kathy Whitworth (48) 218 (-1) 15,000 2,250
Mar 30 Kathy Whitworth (49) 210 (-3) 17,500 2,625
Apr 20 Kathy Whitworth (50) 212 (-4) 17,500 2,625
Apr 27 Carol Mann (21) 212 (-4) 15,000 2,250
May 4 Sandra Haynie (15) 214 (-2) 15,000 2,250
May 11 Carol Mann (22) 209 (-4) 22,000 3,225
May 18 Sandra Haynie (16) 208 (-5) 16,000 2,400
May 25 Mickey Wright (81) 216 (E) 15,750 2,325
Jun 2 Murle Lindstrom (4) 208 (-5) 15,000 2,250
Jun 8 Susie Berning (6) 213 (-6) 20,000 3,000
Jun 15 Kathy Whitworth (51) 214 (-5) 25,000 3,750
Jun 22 Susie Berning (7) 211 (-5) 30,000 4,500
Jun 29 U.S. Women's Open Donna Caponi (1) 294 (+2) 31,040 5,000
Jul 13 Sandra Haynie (17) 216 (-3) 22,000 3,300
Jul 20 Carol Mann (23) 215 (-1) 20,000 3,000
Jul 27 LPGA Championship Betsy Rawls (52) 293 (+1) 35,000 5,250
Aug 3 Sandra Spuzich (2) 213 (+3) 20,000 3,000
Aug 10 Marlene Hagge (25) 216 (-2) 20,000 3,000
Aug 17 Carol Mann (24) 217 (+1) 20,000 3,000
Aug 24 Carol Mann (25) 216 (-3) 20,000 3,000
Sep 7 Carol Mann (26) 212 (-4) 25,500 3,750
Sep 14 Kathy Whitworth (52) 213 (-3) 22,000 3,225
Sep 21 Donna Caponi (2) 214 (-2) 20,500 3,000
Oct 5 Carol Mann (27) 212 (-7) 20,000 3,000
Oct 19 Mary Mills (6) 213 (-3) 15,000 2,250
Oct 26 Carol Mann (28) 212 (+2) 15,000 2,250
Nov 2 Kathy Whitworth (53) 213 (E) 17,500 2,625
am - amateur
* - non-member at time of win

Awards

AwardWinnerCountry
Kathy Whitworth (4)
Kathy Whitworth (4)

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.lpga.com/content/Chronology60-69.pdf LPGA Tournament Chronology 1960-1969