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Golf tournament
Golf tournament
RTJ Golf Trail
Capitol Hill
RTJ Golf Trail
Capitol Hill
The
Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic
was a women's professional
golf
tournament on the
LPGA Tour
. The 72-hole event made its debut seventeen years ago in September
2007
at the Capitol Hill location on the
Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
in
Prattville, Alabama
, a suburb northwest of
Montgomery
.
Maria Hjorth
won the inaugural event on the Senator Course by one stroke over
Stacy Prammanasudh
.
[2]
Top-ranked
Lorena Ochoa
then won consecutive titles, in a playoff in 2008
[3]
and by four strokes in 2009.
[4]
Katherine Hull
won in 2010 by a single stroke and set the tournament scoring record at 269 (?19).
[5]
The event saw the then youngest-ever winner of an LPGA event in 2011, with
Lexi Thompson
's five-stroke victory at age 16.
[6]
(Amateur
Lydia Ko
lowered the record to age 15 in
2012
in
Canada
.) In 2012,
Stacy Lewis
won her third event of the season by two strokes over Thompson, who carded a 63 (?9) on Thursday, but had a 74 (+2) on Saturday.
[7]
The Senator Course at RTJ Capitol Hill converted its greens from
bent grass
to Champion
Bermuda grass
in the summer of 2011.
[8]
The title sponsor was
Navistar International
, a manufacturer of commercial trucks, engines, and school buses. Following the 2012 event, it elected not to continue as title sponsor, and the tournament was dropped from the schedule in
2013
.
[9]
[10]
The tournament reappeared in
2014
when the
Yokohama Tire Corporation
took over as the title sponsor.
[11]
Formerly played later in the season, it was moved up in the schedule to May in
2016
. The LPGA Tour event in
Mobile
, last played as the
Airbus LPGA Classic
in 2014, was held in May at an RTJ Golf Trail course.
Tournament names
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- 2007:
Navistar LPGA Classic
- 2008:
Navistar LPGA Classic Presented by MaxxForce
- 2009?2011:
Navistar LPGA Classic Presented by Monaco RV
- 2012:
Navistar LPGA Classic
- 2014?2016:
Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic
Course layout
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Capitol Hill, Senator Course (2014)
Hole
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
Out
|
10
|
11
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
In
|
Total
|
Yards
|
370
|
165
|
390
|
369
|
540
|
385
|
174
|
507
|
376
|
3,276
|
547
|
400
|
391
|
163
|
363
|
389
|
152
|
515
|
411
|
3,331
|
6,607
|
Par
|
4
|
3
|
4
|
4
|
5
|
4
|
3
|
5
|
4
|
36
|
5
|
4
|
4
|
3
|
4
|
4
|
3
|
5
|
4
|
36
|
72
|
Source:
[1]
Winners
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Year
|
Dates
|
Champion
|
Country
|
Winning score
|
To par
|
Margin
of victory
|
Purse (
$
)
|
Winner's
share ($)
|
2016
|
May 5?8
|
Ariya Jutanugarn
|
Thailand
|
70-69-63-72=274
|
?14
|
1 stroke
|
1,300,000
|
195,000
|
2015
|
Aug 27?30
|
Kris Tamulis
|
United States
|
71-68-67-65=271
|
?17
|
1 stroke
|
1,300,000
|
195,000
|
2014
|
Sep 18?21
|
Mi Jung Hur
|
South Korea
|
64-70-67-66=267
|
?21
|
4 strokes
|
1,300,000
|
195,000
|
2013
|
No tournament
|
2012
|
Sep 20?23
|
Stacy Lewis
|
United States
|
66-70-65-69=270
|
?18
|
2 strokes
|
1,300,000
|
195,000
|
2011
|
Sep 15?18
|
Lexi Thompson
1
|
United States
|
66-68-67-70=271
|
?17
|
5 strokes
|
1,300,000
|
195,000
|
2010
|
Oct 7?10
|
Katherine Hull
|
Australia
|
68-67-67-67=269
|
?19
|
1 stroke
|
1,300,000
|
195,000
|
2009
|
Oct 1?4
|
Lorena Ochoa
(2)
|
Mexico
|
66-68-66-70=270
|
?18
|
4 strokes
|
1,300,000
|
195,000
|
2008
|
Sep 25?28
|
Lorena Ochoa
|
Mexico
|
67-67-69-70=273
|
?15
|
Playoff
2
|
1,400,000
|
210,000
|
2007
|
Sep 27?30
|
Maria Hjorth
|
Sweden
|
70-67-70-67=274
|
?14
|
1 stroke
|
1,300,000
|
195,000
|
1
Thompson, age 16, was not an LPGA member at the time of this win in 2011.
2
Won in a three-player sudden-death playoff in 2008 on the second extra hole.
Tournament records
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References
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- ^
a
b
"Course"
. Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic. 2014
. Retrieved
September 18,
2014
.
- ^
"Hjorth captures first LPGA Tour win since 1999"
.
ESPN
. Associated Press. September 30, 2007
. Retrieved
February 21,
2013
.
- ^
"Ochoa nips Kung on 2nd playoff hole for Navistar Classic crown"
.
ESPN
. Associated Press. September 28, 2008
. Retrieved
February 21,
2013
.
- ^
"Ochoa ends 11-start skid with repeat"
.
ESPN
. Associated Press. October 4, 2009
. Retrieved
February 21,
2013
.
- ^
"Katherine Hull wins second LPGA event"
.
ESPN
. Associated Press. October 10, 2010
. Retrieved
February 21,
2013
.
- ^
"Lexi Thompson wins Navistar Classic"
.
ESPN
. Associated Press. September 18, 2011
. Retrieved
February 21,
2013
.
- ^
"Stacy Lewis wins Navistar Classic"
.
ESPN
. Associated Press. September 23, 2012
. Retrieved
February 21,
2013
.
- ^
"Senator Course Renovation Update"
. Navistar LPGA Classic. August 16, 2011
. Retrieved
September 19,
2012
.
- ^
Baldry, Beth Ann (January 15, 2013).
"LPGA builds on Lewis' success with '13 schedule"
.
Golf Week
. Retrieved
February 21,
2013
.
- ^
Mell, Randall (January 15, 2013).
"LPGA releases 2013 schedule"
. NBC Sports
. Retrieved
February 21,
2013
.
- ^
"Yokohama Tire Corporation to be Title Sponsor of LPGA Tournament in Alabama"
. LPGA. February 4, 2014
. Retrieved
March 10,
2014
.
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