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Golf tour season
The 1969 LPGA Tour was the 20th season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from January 16 to November 2. The season consisted of 29 official money events. Carol Mann won the most tournaments, eight. She also led the money list with earnings of $49,152.
There were two first-time winners in 1969: Donna Caponi and JoAnne Carner , who would win 43 LPGA events in her career.
The tournament results and award winners are listed below.
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1969 season.[ 1] Majors are shown in bold .
Date
Tournament
Location
Winner
Score
Purse ($ )
1st prize ($)
Jan 19
Burdine's Invitational Florida JoAnne Carner (1*) (a)216 (E)
35,000
5,200
Mar 17
Orange Blossom Open Florida Kathy Whitworth (47)216 (+3)
15,000
2,250
Mar 23
Port Charlotte Invitational Florida Kathy Whitworth (48)218 (−1)
15,000
2,250
Mar 30
Port Malabar Invitational Florida Kathy Whitworth (49)210 (−3)
17,500
2,625
Apr 20
Lady Carling Open Georgia Kathy Whitworth (50)212 (−4)
17,500
2,625
Apr 27
Raleigh Ladies Invitational North Carolina Carol Mann (21)212 (−4)
15,000
2,250
May 4
Shreveport Kiwanis Club Invitational Louisiana Sandra Haynie (15)214 (−2)
15,000
2,250
May 11
Dallas Civitan Open Texas Carol Mann (22)209 (−4)
22,000
3,225
May 18
St. Louis Women's Invitational Missouri Sandra Haynie (16)208 (−5)
16,000
2,400
May 25
Bluegrass Invitational Kentucky Mickey Wright (81)216 (E)
15,750
2,325
Jun 2
O'Sullivan Ladies Open Virginia Murle Lindstrom (4)208 (−5)
15,000
2,250
Jun 8
Lady Carling Open Maryland Susie Berning (6)213 (−6)
20,000
3,000
Jun 15
Patty Berg Classic Massachusetts Kathy Whitworth (51)214 (−5)
25,000
3,750
Jun 22
Pabst Ladies Classic Ohio Susie Berning (7)211 (−5)
30,000
4,500
Jun 29
U.S. Women's Open Florida Donna Caponi (1)294 (+2)
31,040
5,000
Jul 13
Ladies' Supertest Open Canada Sandra Haynie (17)216 (−3)
22,000
3,300
Jul 20
Danbury Lady Carling Open Connecticut Carol Mann (23)215 (−1)
20,000
3,000
Jul 27
LPGA Championship New York Betsy Rawls (52)293 (+1)
35,000
5,250
Aug 3
Buckeye Savings Invitational Ohio Sandra Spuzich (2)213 (+3)
20,000
3,000
Aug 10
Stroh's-WBLY Open Ohio Marlene Hagge (25)216 (−2)
20,000
3,000
Aug 17
Southgate Ladies Open Kansas Carol Mann (24)217 (+1)
20,000
3,000
Aug 24
Tournament of Champs Canada Carol Mann (25)216 (−3)
20,000
3,000
Sep 7
Molson's Canadian Open Canada Carol Mann (26)212 (−4)
25,500
3,750
Sep 14
Wendell-West Open Washington Kathy Whitworth (52)213 (−3)
22,000
3,225
Sep 21
Lincoln-Mercury Open California Donna Caponi (2)214 (−2)
20,500
3,000
Oct 5
Mickey Wright Invitational California Carol Mann (27)212 (−7)
20,000
3,000
Oct 19
Quality Chek'd Classic Texas Mary Mills (6)213 (−3)
15,000
2,250
Oct 26
Corpus Christi Civitan Open Texas Carol Mann (28)212 (+2)
15,000
2,250
Nov 2
River Plantation Women's Open Texas Kathy Whitworth (53)213 (E)
17,500
2,625
a – amateur * - non-member at time of win
Carol Mann