2007 LPGA Tour

The 2007 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that took place from February through December 2007. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States-based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). In 2007, prize money on the LPGA Tour was $54.285 million, the highest to date.

Lorena Ochoa topped the money list with a record $4,364,994, easily surpassing Annika Sörenstam's previous record of $2,863,904. Sörenstam was out most of the 2007 with neck and back injuries. Ochoa led the tour in victories in 2007 with eight wins; Suzann Pettersen of Norway had five.

The four major championships were won by: Morgan Pressel (Kraft Nabisco Championship), Suzann Pettersen (LPGA Championship), Cristie Kerr (U.S. Women's Open), and Lorena Ochoa (Women's British Open). All four majors were won by first-time major winners. The British Open also marked a breakthrough for women's golf; for the first time the event took place at historic St Andrews in Scotland, the fabled "home of golf," that had previously been off-limits to women.

In a slight reversal of a trend from recent years, Americans saw a relative resurgence in dominance in 2007, winning 12 events. For the first time since 2000, two Americans won majors. However, only one American, Paula Creamer, won more than one event, while Mexico's Lorena Ochoa won eight times and Norway's Suzann Pettersen five. Koreans won only four events, seven fewer than the 11 won in 2006.

For details of what happened in the main tournaments of the year see 2007 in golf.

Tournament schedule and results

ADT Playoff Categories:

winner: Official LPGA Tour events with a purse of at least $2,000,000. Winners of these events automatically qualify for the ADT Championship.
standard: Winners do not automatically qualify for the ADT Championship; the ADT points system is used.
unofficial: These events are not official LPGA Tour events and participation is not part of the ADT Playoff system.

The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of official money, individual event wins on the LPGA Tour including that event.

Dates	Tournament	Location	ADT Playoff category	Winner	Purse ($)	Winner's share ($)
Jan 19–21	Women's World Cup of Golf	South Africa	unofficial	Paraguay (Julieta Granada / Celeste Troche)
Feb 15–17	SBS Open at Turtle Bay	Hawaii	standard	Paula Creamer (3)	1,100,000	165,000
Feb 22–24	Fields Open in Hawaii	Hawaii	standard	Stacy Prammanasudh (2)	1,200,000	180,000
Mar 9–11	MasterCard Classic	Mexico	standard	Meaghan Francella (1)	1,200,000	180,000
Mar 22–25	Safeway International	Arizona	standard	Lorena Ochoa (10)	1,500,000	225,000
Mar 29 – Apr 1	Kraft Nabisco Championship	California	winner	Morgan Pressel (1)	2,000,000	300,000
Apr 12–15	Ginn Open	Florida	winner	Brittany Lincicome (2)	2,600,000	390,000
Apr 26–29	Corona Championship	Mexico	standard	Silvia Cavalleri (1)	1,300,000	195,000
May 4–6	SemGroup Championship	Oklahoma	standard	Mi Hyun Kim (8)	1,400,000	210,000
May 10–13	Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill	Virginia	winner	Suzann Pettersen (1)	2,200,000	330,000
May 17–20	Sybase Classic	New Jersey	standard	Lorena Ochoa (11)	1,400,000	210,000
May 24–27	LPGA Corning Classic	New York	standard	Young Kim (1)	1,300,000	195,000
May 31 – Jun 3	Ginn Tribute Hosted by Annika	South Carolina	winner	Nicole Castrale (1)	2,600,000	390,000
Jun 7–10	McDonald's LPGA Championship	Maryland	winner	Suzann Pettersen (2)	2,000,000	300,000
Jun 21–24	Wegmans LPGA	New York	standard	Lorena Ochoa (12)	1,800,000	270,000
End of first half of the season
Jun 28 – Jul 1	U.S. Women's Open	North Carolina	winner	Cristie Kerr (10)	3,100,000	560,000
Jul 12–15	Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic	Ohio	standard	Se Ri Pak (24)	1,300,000	195,000
Jul 19–22	HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship	New York	winner	Seon Hwa Lee (2)	2,000,000	500,000
Jul 26–29	Evian Masters	France	winner	Natalie Gulbis (1)	3,000,000	450,000
Aug 2–5	Ricoh Women's British Open	Scotland	winner	Lorena Ochoa (13)	2,000,000	320,512
Aug 16–19	CN Canadian Women's Open	Alberta, Canada	winner	Lorena Ochoa (14)	2,250,000	337,500
Aug 24–26	Safeway Classic	Oregon	standard	Lorena Ochoa (15)	1,700,000	255,000
Aug 30 – Sep 2	LPGA State Farm Classic	Illinois	standard	Sherri Steinhauer (8)	1,300,000	195,000
Sep 7–9	LPGA NW Arkansas Championship*	Arkansas	standard	Stacy Lewis (n/a)	625,000	90,000
Sep 14–16	The Solheim Cup	Sweden	n/a	United States	n/a
Sep 27–30	Navistar LPGA Classic	Alabama	standard	Maria Hjorth (3)	1,300,000	195,000
Oct 4–7	Longs Drugs Challenge	California	standard	Suzann Pettersen (3)	1,100,000	165,000
Oct 11–14	Samsung World Championship	California	standard	Lorena Ochoa (16)	1,000,000	250,000
Oct 19–21	Hana Bank-KOLON Championship	South Korea	standard	Suzann Pettersen (4)	1,500,000	191,250
Oct 26–28	Honda LPGA Thailand	Thailand	standard	Suzann Pettersen (5)	1,300,000	195,000
Nov 2–4	Mizuno Classic	Japan	standard	Momoko Ueda (1)	1,400,000	210,000
Nov 8–11	The Mitchell Company LPGA Tournament of Champions	Alabama	standard	Paula Creamer (4)	1,000,000	150,000
Nov 15–18	ADT Championship	Florida	n/a	Lorena Ochoa (17)	1,550,000	1,000,000
Dec 7–9	Lexus Cup	Australia	unofficial	Team Asia	n/a
Dec 22–23**	Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge	Nevada	unofficial	LPGA Tour	n/a

Tournaments in bold are majors.
*The LPGA NW Arkansas Championship was not completed due to inclement weather. Only 18 holes were played so it was not an official tournament, nor did the money count as official money.
**The Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge was held on November 13. It was broadcast on television on December 22 and 23. The official LPGA Tour schedule listed the tournament dates based on the television broadcast.

Leaders

Money List leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Events
1	Lorena Ochoa	Mexico	4,364,994	25
2	Suzann Pettersen	Norway	1,802,400	24
3	Paula Creamer	United States	1,384,798	24
4	Mi Hyun Kim	South Korea	1,273,848	27
5	Seon Hwa Lee	South Korea	1,100,198	28
6	Cristie Kerr	United States	1,098,921	22
7	Jang Jeong	South Korea	1,038,598	27
8	Angela Park	Brazil	983,922	28
9	Morgan Pressel	United States	972,452	25
10	Jee Young Lee	South Korea	966,256	24

Full 2007 Official Money List

Scoring Average leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Average
1	Lorena Ochoa	Mexico	69.69
2	Paula Creamer	United States	70.50
3	Suzann Pettersen	Norway	70.86
4	Annika Sörenstam	Sweden	71.27
5	Stacy Prammanasudh	United States	71.28

Full 2007 Scoring Average List - navigate to "2007", then "Scoring Average"

Award winners

The three competitive awards given out by the LPGA each year are:

The Rolex Player of the Year is awarded based on a formula in which points are awarded for top-10 finishes and are doubled at the LPGA's four major championships and at the season-ending ADT Championship. The points system is: 30 points for first; 12 points for second; nine points for third; seven points for fourth; six points for fifth; five points for sixth; four points for seventh; three points for eighth; two points for ninth and one point for 10th.
- 2007 Winner: Lorena Ochoa. Runner-up: Suzann Pettersen
The Vare Trophy, named for Glenna Collett-Vare, is given to the player with the lowest scoring average for the season.
- 2007 Winner: Lorena Ochoa. Runner-up: Paula Creamer
The Louis Suggs Rolex Rooke of the Year Award is awarded to the first-year player on the LPGA Tour who scores the highest in a points competition in which points are awarded at all full-field domestic events and doubled at the LPGA's four major championships. The points system is: 150 points for first; 80 points for second; 75 points for third; 70 points for fourth; and 65 points for fifth. After fifth place, points are awarded in increments of three, beginning at sixth place with 62 points. Rookies who make the cut in an event and finish below 41st each receive five points. The award is named after Louise Suggs, one of the founders of the LPGA.
- 2007 Winner: Angela Park. Runner-up: In-Kyung Kim

2007 LPGA Tour

Tournament schedule and results

Leaders

Award winners

See also