Year: | 1962 |
Tour: | LPGA Tour |
Regular Season: | – |
No Of Events: | 29 |
Most Wins: | 10 Mickey Wright |
Honor1: | Money leader |
Honoree1: | Mickey Wright |
Honor2: | Rookie of the Year |
Honoree2: | Mary Mills |
Prevseason: | 1961 |
Nextseason: | 1963 |
The 1962 LPGA Tour was the 13th season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from January 19 to November 4. The season consisted of 29 official money events. Mickey Wright won the most tournaments, 10. She also led the money list with earnings of $21,641. The first Rookie of the Year was won by Mary Mills.
There were four first-time winners in 1962: Shirley Englehorn, Sandra Haynie, who would win 42 LPGA events, Murle Lindstrom, and Kathy Whitworth, who would win a record 88 LPGA events. The season saw the last wins of Louise Suggs (58 career wins) and Patty Berg (60). It also saw the first and only official win by a man, Sam Snead in the Royal Poinciana Plaza Invitational.
The tournament results and award winners are listed below.
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1962 season.[1] "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.
Date | Tournament | Location | Winner | Score | Purse ($) | 1st prize ($) | |
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Jan 21 | Mickey Wright (30) | 226 | 6,000 | 1,000 | |||
Feb 7 | Sam Snead (1) | 211 | 4,500 | 2,000 | |||
Feb 18 | Louise Suggs (56) | 280 | 7,500 | 1,200 | |||
Apr 22 | Marilynn Smith (6) | 214 | 7,000 | 1,200 | |||
Apr 29 | Titleholders Championship | Mickey Wright (31) | 295 | 7,500 | 1,330 | ||
May 6 | Mary Lena Faulk (8) | 217 | 7,500 | 1,100 | |||
May 13 | Women's Western Open | Mickey Wright (32) | 295 | 7,000 | 1,200 | ||
May 20 | Patty Berg (51) | 290 | 7,000 | 1,200 | |||
May 27 | Ruth Jessen (3) | 292 | 9,300 | 1,500 | |||
Jun 10 | Sandra Haynie (1) | 289 | 7,000 | 1,200 | |||
Jun 17 | Sandra Haynie (2) | 210 | 7,500 | 1,200 | |||
Jun 24 | Betsy Rawls (45) | 295 (+3) | 8,000 | 1,250 | |||
Jun 30 | U.S. Women's Open | Murle Lindstrom (1) | 301 | 8,000 | 1,800 | ||
Jul 8 | Kathy Whitworth (1) | 215 | 7,500 | 1,300 | |||
Jul 15 | Mickey Wright (33) | 289 | 10,000 | 1,350 | |||
Jul 22 | Shirley Englehorn (1) | 226 | 10,000 | 1,450 | |||
Aug 5 | Marilynn Smith (7) | 279 | 7,500 | 1,200 | |||
Aug 12 | Mickey Wright (34) | 286 | 7,500 | 1,000 | |||
Aug 19 | Mickey Wright (35) | 219 | 7,500 | 1,000 | |||
Aug 26 | Mickey Wright (36) | 292 | 7,000 | 1,200 | |||
Sep 3 | Mickey Wright (37) | 275 | 7,000 | 1,200 | |||
Sep 9 | Shirley Englehorn (2) | 292 | 7,500 | 1,250 | |||
Sep 16 | Ruth Jessen (4) | 218 | 7,500 | 1,300 | |||
Sep 23 | Mary Lena Faulk (9) | 289 | 7,500 | 1,350 | |||
Sep 30 | Mickey Wright (38) | 286 | 5,000 | 1,300 | |||
Oct 7 | LPGA Championship | Judy Kimball (2) | 282 | 15,000 | 2,300 | ||
Oct 14 | Kathy Whitworth (2) | 213 | 8,400 | 1,350 | |||
Oct 21 | Mickey Wright (39) | 219 | 7,000 | 1,200 | |||
Nov 4 | Murle Lindstrom (2) | 215 | 7,000 | 1,200 |
Award | Winner | Country | |
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Mickey Wright (2) | |||
Mickey Wright (3) | |||