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 $49,152.
There were two first-time winners in 1969: Donna Caponi and JoAnne Carner, who would win 43 LPGA events in her career.
The tournament results and award winners are listed below.
Tournament results The following table shows all the official money events for the 1969 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.
Date Tournament Location Winner Score Purse ($) 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
Awards AwardWinnerCountry Money winner Carol Mann Scoring leader (Vare Trophy) Kathy Whitworth (4) Player of the Year Kathy Whitworth (4) Rookie of the Year Jane Blalock
References
External links LPGA Tour official site 1969 season coverage at golfobserver.com