500 Ladies Classic
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The 500 Ladies Classic was a golf
tournament on the LPGA Tour, played only in 1968. It was played at the Speedway Golf Course in Indianapolis, Indiana
. Mickey Wright
won the event by three strokes over Kathy Whitworth
.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament on the LPGA Tour, played only in 1968. It was played at the Speedway Golf Course in Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
. Mickey Wright
Mickey Wright
Mary Kathryn "Mickey" Wright is an American professional golfer. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.-Early life:...
won the event by three strokes over Kathy Whitworth
Kathy Whitworth
Kathy Whitworth is an American professional golfer. Throughout her playing career she won 88 LPGA Tour tournaments, more than anyone else has won on either the LPGA Tour or the PGA Tour. In 1981 she became the first woman to reach career earnings of $1 million on the LPGA Tour...
.
See also
- 500 Festival Open Invitation500 Festival Open InvitationThe 500 Festival Open Invitation was a PGA Tour event in Indianapolis, Indiana played in the 1960s. It was sponsored by The 500 Festival, a not-for-profit volunteer organization that was created in 1957 to organize civic events to promote the Indianapolis 500...
– a PGA TourPGA TourThe PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
event held at the same location from 1960 to 1968