1993 LPGA Tour


The 1993 LPGA Tour was the 44th season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from February 5 to November 7. The season consisted of 31 official money events. Brandie Burton won the most tournaments, three. Betsy King led the money list with earnings of $595,992, becoming the first to win over $500,000 in a season.
There were nine first-time winners in 1993: Kristi Albers, Helen Alfredsson, Donna Andrews, Missie Berteotti, Helen Dobson, Trish Johnson, Hiromi Kobayashi, Kelly Robbins, and Cindy Schreyer.
The tournament results and award winners are listed below.

Tournament results

The following table shows all the official money events for the 1993 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.
DateTournamentLocationWinnerScorePurse 1st prize
Feb 7HealthSouth Palm Beach ClassicFlorida Tammie Green 208 400,00060,000
Feb 20Itoki Hawaiian Ladies OpenHawaii Lisa Walters 210 450,00067,500
Mar 14Ping/Welch's ChampionshipArizona Meg Mallon 272 400,00060,000
Mar 21Standard Register PINGArizona Patty Sheehan 275 700,000105,000
Mar 28Nabisco Dinah ShoreCalifornia Helen Alfredsson 284 700,000105,000
Apr 4Las Vegas LPGANevada Trish Johnson 209 450,00067,500
Apr 18Atlanta Women's ChampionshipGeorgia Trish Johnson 282 600,00090,000
May 2Sprint ClassicFlorida Kristi Albers 279 1,200,000180,000
May 9Sara Lee ClassicTennessee Meg Mallon 205 525,00078,750
May 16McDonald's ChampionshipDelaware Laura Davies 277 900,000135,000
May 23Lady Keystone OpenPennsylvania Val Skinner 210 400,00060,000
May 30LPGA Corning ClassicNew York Kelly Robbins 277 500,00075,000
Jun 6Oldsmobile ClassicMichigan Jane Geddes 277 550,00082,500
Jun 13Mazda LPGA ChampionshipMaryland Patty Sheehan 275 1,000,000150,000
Jun 20Rochester InternationalNew York Tammie Green 276 500,00075,000
Jun 27ShopRite LPGA ClassicNew Jersey Shelley Hamlin 204 450,00067,500
Jul 4Jamie Farr Toledo ClassicOhio Brandie Burton 201 450,00067,500
Jul 11Youngstown-Warren LPGA ClassicOhio Nancy Lopez 203 500,00075,000
Jul 18JAL Big Apple ClassicNew York Hiromi Kobayashi 278 600,00090,000
Jul 25U.S. Women's OpenIndiana Lauri Merten 280 800,000144,000
Aug 1PING/Welch's ChampionshipMassachusetts Missie Berteotti 276 450,00067,500
Aug 8McCall's LPGA ClassicVermont Dana Lofland-Dormann 275 500,00075,000
Aug 15Sun-Times ChallengeIllinois Cindy Schreyer 272 475,00071,250
Aug 22Minnesota LPGA ClassicMinnesota Hiromi Kobayashi 205 450,00067,500
Aug 29du Maurier Ltd. ClassicCanada Brandie Burton 277 800,000120,000
Sep 6State Farm Rail ClassicIllinois Helen Dobson 203 500,00075,000
Sep 12Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf ChampionshipOregon Donna Andrews 208 450,00067,500
Sep 19Safeco ClassicWashington Brandie Burton 274 450,00067,500
Sep 26Kyocera Inamori ClassicCalifornia Kris Monaghan 275 425,00063,750
Oct 17World Championship of Women's GolfFlorida Dottie Mochrie 283 400,000102,500
Nov 7Toray Japan Queens CupJapan Betsy King 205 650,00097,500

Awards