The LPGA Tour Championship, previously known as the LPGA Playoffs at The ADT and the ADT Championship, is the season-ending golf tournament on the United States-based LPGA Tour.
The tournament was played in its present form for the first time in November 2006; the winner of the event, Julieta Granada, received $1 million, the highest first-place prize in the history of women's golf. The event took place at the Trump International Golf Club in Wes...
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The LPGA Tour Championship, previously known as the LPGA Playoffs at The ADT and the ADT Championship, is the season-ending golf tournament on the United States-based LPGA Tour.
The tournament was played in its present form for the first time in November 2006; the winner of the event, Julieta Granada, received $1 million, the highest first-place prize in the history of women's golf. The event took place at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
From 1996 through 2006 the tournament was a standard-format, 72 hole stroke play event. It had a purse of $1,000,000 in its final season with the winner receiving $215,000.
The playoff event was the first time golf has ever used a postseason of any kind on any tour. Beginning in 2007, the PGA Tour also employed a playoff system.
Through the 2008 season, the title sponsor was ADT, a worldwide supplier of electronic security and fire alarm systems, communication systems and integrated building management systems, with...
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