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The Founders LPGA The Founders Cup will be played Feb. 6-9, 2025 at Bradenton Country Club in Bradenton, Fla.

Players participating in the Cognizant Founders Cup, a 72-hole, stroke-play event, is to be televised LIVE on Golf Channel Thursday through Sunday. The tournament, with a field of 144 players, will help raise funds for the LPGA Foundation to grow the game at a grass-roots level much as Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise Suggs, Marlene Bauer Hagge, Bettye Danoff and the 8 other LPGA Founders fi

rst set out to accomplish more than 70 years ago. The officially sanctioned event provides official LPGA and World Golf Halls of Fame and Rolex Rankings points, as well as official statistics and impact to the LPGA Official Money List purposes. The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) was established in 1950 by 13 brave women who set stereotypes aside to provide economic opportunities for women and girls. The LPGA owes its long and distinguished history to the hard work and dedication of these 13 women who not only formed the Association, but also organized tournaments, drafted by-laws, set up golf courses and did everything necessary to make professional golf a possibility for women. LPGA-USGA Girls Golf is the LPGA's primary junior golf initiative which introduces girls from the ages of 7 to 17 to all areas of the game. The program also teaches the values inherent in the game itself – patience, perseverance, honesty and respect, providing young girls with the building blocks to become future role models both on and off the golf course. Many LPGA members, including 2010 LPGA-USGA Girls Golf National Ambassador Brittany Lincicome, Morgan Pressel and Vicky Hurst, were introduced to the game of golf through LPGA-USGA Girls Golf. The program is supported by all of the major golf organizations led by the USGA, but also including the EWGA (Executive Women’s Golf Association), PGA Tour, PGA of America and the Masters Tournament. In recent years, LPGA players have made significant donations to the LPGA-USGA Girls Golf program, including Inbee Park, who donated $50,000 in 2008, Na Yeon Choi, who donated $30,000 in 2010, and Karrie Webb who donated $25,000 in 2014 when she won the event. LPGA-USGA Girls Golf has nearly 500 sites around the world and has served more than 90,000 participants since its inception in 1989. Girls Golf was originally established in Phoenix—where the inaugural RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup was held—by LPGA Teaching & Club Professional (T&CP) member Sandy LaBauve.

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Growing the Game

Players participating in the Bank of Hope Founders Cup, a 72-hole, stroke-play event to be televised LIVE on the Golf Channel each day of the tournament. The tournament, with a field of 144 players, will help raise funds to grow the game at a grass-roots level much as Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise Suggs, Marlene Bauer Hagge, Bettye Danoff and the 8 other LPGA Founders first set out to accomplish more than 60 years ago. The event is held each March at Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. The tournament will be officially sanctioned, thus providing official LPGA and World Golf Halls of Fame and Rolex Rankings points, as well as official statistics and impact to the LPGA Official Money List purposes. The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) was established in 1950 by 13 brave women who set stereotypes aside to provide economic opportunities for women and girls. The LPGA owes its long and distinguished history to the hard work and dedication of these 13 women who not only formed the Association, but also organized tournaments, drafted by-laws, set up golf courses and did everything necessary to make professional golf a possibility for women. LPGA-USGA Girls Golf is the LPGA's primary junior golf initiative which introduces girls from the ages of 7 to 17 to all areas of the game. The program also teaches the values inherent in the game itself – patience, perseverance, honesty and respect, providing young girls with the building blocks to become future role models both on and off the golf course. Many LPGA members, including 2010 LPGA-USGA Girls Golf National Ambassador Brittany Lincicome, Morgan Pressel and Vicky Hurst, were introduced to the game of golf through LPGA-USGA Girls Golf. The program is supported by all of the major golf organizations led by the USGA, but also including the EWGA (Executive Women’s Golf Association), PGA Tour, PGA of America and the Masters Tournament. In recent years, LPGA players have made significant donations to the LPGA-USGA Girls Golf program, including Inbee Park, who donated $50,000 in 2008, Na Yeon Choi, who donated $30,000 in 2010, and Karrie Webb who donated $25,000 in 2014 when she won the event. LPGA-USGA Girls Golf has over 200 sites around the country and has served more than 60,000 participants since its inception in 1989. Girls Golf was originally established in Phoenix—where the inaugural LPGA RR Donnelley Founders Cup was held—by LPGA Teaching & Club Professional (T&CP) member Sandy LaBauve.