The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions
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The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions was a golf tournament for professional female golfers on the LPGA Tour. It was played annually from 1994 to 2007 at various sites in the Southeastern United States. It was last played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Magnolia Grove Golf Course in Mobile, Alabama.
It was one of a small number of limited field events on the LPGA Tour. Only winners of an LPGA event from the previous four years, as well as active Hall of Fame members, were eligible for the tournament.
In 2004, the title sponsor became the Mitchell Company, a real estate development and management firm headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.
Tournament names through the years:
- 1994–1997: Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions
- 1998: Lifetime's AFLAC Tournament of Champions
- 1999–2001: AFLAC Champions Presented by Southern Living
- 2002–2003: Mobile LPGA Tournament of Champions
- 2004–2006: The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions presented by Kathy Ireland
- 2007: The Mitchell Company LPGA Tournament of Champions
Winners
[edit]| Year | Champion | Country | Score | Tournament Location |
Purse | Winner's Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Paula Creamer |  United States |
268 (−20) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $1,000,000 | $150,000 |
| 2006 | Lorena Ochoa |  Mexico |
267 (−21) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $1,000,000 | $150,000 |
| 2005 | Christina Kim | United States |
273 (−15) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $850,000 | $138,000 |
| 2004 | Heather Daly-Donofrio | United States |
269 (−19) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $800,000 | $130,000 |
| 2003 | Dorothy Delasin | United States |
280 (−8) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 2002 | Se Ri Pak |  South Korea |
268 (−20) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 2001 | Se Ri Pak | South Korea |
272 (−16) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 2000 | Karrie Webb |  Australia |
273 (−15) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 1999 | Akiko Fukushima |  Japan |
279 (−9) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 1998 | Kelly Robbins | United States |
276 (−12) | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Grand National | $750,000 | $122,000 |
| 1997 | Annika Sörenstam |  Sweden |
272 (−16) | Weston Hills Country Club | $700,000 | $115,000 |
| 1996 | Liselotte Neumann | Sweden |
275 (−13) | Grand Cypress Resort | $725,000 | $117,500 |
| 1995 | Dawn Coe-Jones |  Canada |
281 (−7) | Grand Cypress Resort | $700,000 | $115,000 |
| 1994 | Dottie Mochrie | United States |
287 (−1) | Grand Cypress Resort | $700,000 | $115,000 |
Tournament record
[edit]| Year | Player | Score | Round | Course |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Carin Koch | 64 (−10) | 1st round | Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove, par 72 |