FALMOUTH -- Top-flight professional golf is returning to Maine. A star-studded field of former Ladies Professional Golf Association players who now ply their trade on a relatively new tour known as the Legends Tour will descend on Falmouth Country Club in June for the inaugural Hannaford Community Challenge, one of nine events on the tour's 2012 schedule.
Known as Mighty Mite, Danoff was a top amateur golfer before turning pro in 1949 and starting the Ladies Professional Golf Association with 12 others in 1950. Bettye Danoff, one of 13 founding members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, which began as a hardy, poorly paid band of women who traveled the country for the chance to play the game, died on Dec. 22 in McKinney, Texas. She was 88.
GOLF: University of Arkansas - National Collegiate Athletic Association - Ladies Professional Golf Association
The Ladies Professional Golf Association tournament was a rousing success on its return to the area last week. Jiyai Shin and Paula Creamer tied for the championship and then battled through a playoff that stretched to nine holes and an extra day before Shin won the Kingsmill event.
Before Lexi Thompson, 16, won the Navistar L.P.G.A. Classic on Sunday, the youngest golfer ever to win a tour event had been Marlene Hagge, who was 18 when she won in 1952. The historical record will show that the 16-year-old Lexi Thompson became the youngest winner of a Ladies Professional Golf Association event with her victory in the Navistar L.P.G.A. Classic.
INDUSTRY - The Ladies Professional Golf Association is seeking 600 volunteers for the Kia Classic, to be held March 21-27 at Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms. Volunteers are crucial to the tournament's operation and success, officials said, and volunteers receive a view of the action that ordinary fans can't get.
S. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter of Fairport has introduced a resolution to commemorate the Professional Golf Association and Ladies Professional Golf Association championships being held in the Rochester area this summer. The 95th PGA Championship will be run Aug. 5 to 11 at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, the region's oldest course, which has played host to events such as the Ryder Cup, the Senior Open Championship and two previous PGA championships. Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford, which has played host to the Wegmans LPGA Championship since 1977, will welcome the event again this year from June 3 to 9.
The World Golf Foundation created The First Tee in 1997 as a way to bring golf to young people who otherwise would not get to know the game and its positive values. It is sponsored by the Ladies Professional Golf Association, the Masters Tournament, the PGA and PGA Tour, and the United States Golf Association. President George W. Bush has succeeded his father as Honorary Chair.
According to the authority, the convention center reported eight tradeshows, meetings and conventions held in 2010 as of February, compared with 15 such events held in the prior-year period. Chheda pointed to the Miss America pageant's departure from Atlantic City to Las Vegas in 2006, as well as the temporary departure of the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour from the local market (which is scheduled to return June 14 for the Shoprite LPGA Classic), as factors hurting his hotels.
There were moments of angst among Ladies Professional Golf Association officials when then-world's No.1-ranked golfer Lorena Ochoa announced her retirement last month. Ochoa had been the major draw for a tour trying to survive the choppy waters caused by the exodus of several corporate sponsors, which forced LPGA officials to trim the tournament schedule this year from 30 to 24 events.
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