El Paso Golf Classic
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The El Paso Golf Classic is an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the FUTURES Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour. The event has been a part of the FUTURES Tour's schedule since 2002. It takes place at the Underwood Golf Complex in El Paso, Texas.
The Tournament is a 54-hole event, as are most FUTURES Tour tournaments, and includes a pre-tournament pro-am event, in which local amateur golfers can play with the professional golfers from the Tour as a benefit for local charities. The benefiting charity for the El Paso Golf Classic is the Rotary Club of West El Paso Foundation.
From 2003 through 2006 the tournament was known as the IOS Golf Classic, with the name sponsorship held by International Outsourcing Services, or IOS, an El-Paso based data services company and the largest coupon clearinghouse for grocery store retailers' and manufacturers' coupons in the United States. On March 8, 2007, 11 persons associated with IOS, including its president and chief operating officer, were indicted on wire-fraud charges and with carrying out a scheme to defraud manufacturers that use coupons to market their products to consumers.[1] [2] Shortly thereafter, the FUTURES Tour and the El Paso tournament withdrew the name of IOS as a sponsor for the tournament and the event was renamed the El Paso Golf Classic.
Tournament names through the years:
- 2002: El Paso FUTURES Golf Classic
- 2003-2006: IOS Golf Classic
- 2007-present: El Paso Golf Classic
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[edit] Winners
| Year | Date | Champion | Country | Score | Tournament Location |
Purse | Winner's Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | May 2-4 | Kristina Tucker |  Sweden |
205 (-11) | Underwood Golf Complex | $85,000 | $11,900 |
| 2007 | May 4-6 | Mo Martin |  United States |
207 (-9) | Underwood Golf Complex | $80,000 | $11,200 |
| 2006 | May5-7 | Song-Hee Kim |  South Korea |
208 (-8) | Underwood Golf Complex | $75,000 | $10,500 |
| 2005 | Apr 29-May 1 | Kyeong Bae | South Korea |
211 (-5) | Underwood Golf Complex | $70,000 | $9,800 |
| 2004 | Apr 30-May 2 | Hong Mei Yang |  China |
205 (-11) | Underwood Golf Complex | $70,000 | $9,800 |
| 2003 | May 2-4 | Vicki Fergon | United States |
216 (E) | Underwood Golf Complex | $70,000 | $9,800 |
| 2002 | Apr 12-14 | Joellyn Erdmann | United States |
204 (-12) | Underwood Golf Complex | $70,000 | $9,800 |
[edit] Tournament records
| Year | Player | Score | Round | Course |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Michelle Fuller | 64 (-8) | 1st round | Underwood Golf Complex, par 72 |
[edit] References
- ^ El Paso Businessmen Indicted in Wisconsin. FBI (2007-03-08). Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
- ^ Diedrich, John (2007-03-08). Huge coupon scam suspected: U.S. accuses firm of bilking stores, manufacturers out of $250 million. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
