Year: | 1997 |
Tour: | Ladies European Tour |
Regular Season: | N/A |
No Of Events: | 15 |
Honor1: | Order of Merit |
Honoree1: | Alison Nicholas |
Prevseason: | 1996 |
Nextseason: | 1998 |
The 1997 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place in 1997. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).
The table below shows the 1997 schedule.[1] [2] The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour.
Date | Tournament | Venue | Location | Winner | Score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Note |
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11 May | Clube de Golf do Estoril | Mandy Sutton (1) | 202 | 1 stroke | ||||
18 May | Tytherington Golf Club | Karen Lunn (7) | 283 | 1 stroke | ||||
8 Jun | Vejle Golf Club | Laura Davies (26) | 207 | 3 strokes | ||||
15 Jun | Lausanne Golf Club | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi (19) | 280 | Playoff | ||||
21 Jun | Evian Masters | Hiromi Kobayashi (n/a) | 274 | Playoff | ||||
29 Jun | Patricia Meunier-Lebouc (2) | 284 | 1 stroke | |||||
27 Jul | GCC Hamburg-Treudelberg | Joanne Mills (1) | 283 | Playoff | ||||
10 Aug | Helen Alfredsson (8) | 276 | 4 strokes | |||||
17 Aug | Weetabix Women's British Open | Karrie Webb (2) | 269 | 8 strokes | Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour | |||
24 Aug | Annika Sörenstam (4) | 277 | 6 strokes | |||||
7 Sep | Paris International GC | Karen Lunn (8) | 281 | 4 strokes | ||||
21 Sep | Golf und Land Club Köln | Laura Davies (27) | 288 | 1 stroke | ||||
5 Oct | Il Picciolo Golf Club | Valérie Van Ryckeghem (1) | 288 | Playoff | ||||
26 Oct | Deauville Golf Club | Loraine Lambert (1) | 213 | 2 strokes | ||||
16 Nov | Royal Óbidos Spa & Golf | 13–7 | Team event |
Major championships in bold.
Rank | Player | Prize money (£) | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Alison Nicholas | 94,590 | |
2 | 92,928 | ||
3 | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi | 89,523 | |
4 | Laura Davies | 77,425 | |
5 | Karen Lunn | 65,143 | |
6 | Patricia Meunier-Lebouc | 52,999 | |
7 | Joanne Morley | 48,217 | |
8 | Anne-Marie Knight | 47,135 | |
9 | Trish Johnson | 45,742 | |
10 | Maria Hjorth | 39,536 |