The 1996 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place in 1996. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET).
Tournaments The table below shows the 1996 schedule.Past Tournament Winners, Ladies European Tour, GolfTodayLadies European Tour - 1994 to 1999 The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour.
Date Tournament Venue Location Winner Score Margin ofvictory Runner(s)-up Note 5 May Women's Welsh Open St Pierre Golf & Country Club Wales Lisa Hackney (1) 289 1 stroke Laura Navarro Anne-Marie Knight 11 May Costa Azul Ladies Open Troia and Aroeira GC Portugal Shani Waugh (1) 214 2 strokes Marie-Laure de Lorenzi Mary Grace Estuesta Helene Koch Aideen Rogers 9 Jun Ford-Stimorol Danish Open Vejle Golf Club Denmark Nadene Gole (1) 209 2 strokes Rachel Hetherington Anne-Marie Knight 16 Jun Deesse Ladies' Swiss Open Maison Blanche, Geneva Switzerland Sophie Gustafson (1) 280 1 stroke Lisa Hackney 22 Jun Evian Masters Evian Resort Golf Club France Laura Davies (23) 274 4 strokes Carin Koch 30 Jun Glashütte Ladies' Austrian Open Colony Club Gutenhof Austria Martina Koch (1) 213 2 strokes Lynnette Brooky 7 Jul Hennessy Cup Cologne Germany Helen Alfredsson (7) 280 Playoff Liselotte Neumann Trish Johnson 28 Jul Guardian Irish Open Citywest GCC, Dublin Ireland Alison Nicholas (12) 277 8 strokes Trish Johnson 11 Aug McDonald's WPGA Championship of Europe Gleneagles Scotland Tina Fischer (1) 278 1 stroke Charlotta Sörenstam Trish Johnson 18 Aug Weetabix Women's British Open Woburn Golf and Country Club England Emilee Klein (1) 277 7 strokes Amy Alcott Penny Hammel Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour 25 Aug Trygg Hansa Ladies' Open Haninge GC, Stockholm Sweden Annika Sörenstam (3) 279 1 stroke Joanne Morley Alison Nicholas 1 Sep Compaq Open Örebro GC Sweden Federica Dassù (5) 280 Playoff Helen Alfredsson Kathryn Marshall 8 Sep Marks & Spencer European Open Hanbury Manor England Trish Johnson (9) 274 5 strokes Pernilla Sterner Anne-Marie Knight 15 Sep Wilkinson Sword Ladies' English Open The Oxfordshire Golf Club England Laura Davies (24) 273 4 strokes Helen Alfredsson 29 Sep Ladies German Open Treudelberg GC, Hamburg Germany Joanne Morley (1) 281 4 strokes Maria Hjorth 13 Oct Open de France Dames Le Golf d'Arras France Trish Johnson (10) 200 10 strokes Raquel Carriedo-Tomás Fiona Pike 20 Oct Italian Ladies' Open di Sicilia Il Picciolo GC, Sicily Italy Laura Davies (25) 282 3 strokes Tina Fischer Fiona Pike 2 Nov Open de España Femenino La Manga Spain Caryn Louw (1) 206 4 strokes Assia Arruti
Major championships in bold.
Order of Merit rankings RankPlayerMoney (£)1 Laura Davies 110,8802 Helen Alfredsson 97,8043 Trish Johnson 80,3334 Alison Nicholas 69,8785 Lisa Hackney 69,5506 Joanne Morley 56,2547 Marie-Laure de Lorenzi 56,0268 Tina Fischer 47,5859 Federica Dassù 40,63110 Laura Navarro 36,791 Source:
See also 1996 LPGA Tour
References
External links Official site of the Ladies European Tour