2011 LPGA Tour season

Duration	February 17, 2011 (2011-02-17) – November 20, 2011 (2011-11-20)
Number of official events	23
Most wins	7 Yani Tseng
Money leader	Yani Tseng
Rolex Player of the Year	Yani Tseng
Rookie of the Year	Hee Kyung Seo
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The 2011 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that began in Thailand on February 17, 2011, and had its last official event end on November 20, 2011, in Florida. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States-based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).

Season overview

There were 23 official tournaments on the 2011 LPGA, the lowest number in nearly 40 years. More events were held outside of the United States, with eleven different countries hosting tournaments, the highest number in the history of the LPGA Tour. Thirteen tournaments were held in the United States, the lowest number in several decades.

Yani Tseng from Taiwan, was the dominant player on the 2011 Tour. She won seven of the 22 tournaments in which she played and had fourteen top-10 finishes. Her wins in the Women's British Open and the LPGA Championship made her the youngest player ever, male or female, to win five career major tournaments. She won the LPGA money list title with $2,921,713 in official earnings; American Cristie Kerr finished second with $1,470,979.

Tseng also won the Player of the Year award and the Vare Trophy given to the player with the lowest scoring average for the season. Korean Hee Kyung Seo won the Rookie of the Year award.

Changes in the 2011 season

• Three new events were announced at the start of the season: the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup in Arizona in March, the Imperial Springs LPGA in China in August, and the Sunrise LPGA Taiwan Championship in October. The Imperial Springs event was postponed from early August to late September, then canceled outright on September 13.^[1]
• The new RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup, held in honor of the LPGA's founders, did not have a cash purse. Instead, a $1 million mock purse was awarded. This purse counted toward the players' annual money list standings, and the event carried a full points allocation toward the World Golf Rankings and LPGA season award races. The sponsor matched the $1 million purse with a donation to charity: $500,000 to LPGA-USGA Girls Golf program and $500,000 to charities of each player's choice for the top ten finishers.^[2]
• The CME Group Titleholders, the successor to the LPGA Tour Championship, had a field made up of three qualifiers from each official tour event—specifically the top three finishers who have not already qualified for the Titleholders.^[3]
• The Tres Marias Championship, scheduled for April in Mexico, was canceled in late January because of security concerns; this created a three-week gap in the LPGA schedule.^[4]
• The Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic was not played in 2011, but will return for 2012 through 2014. The Toledo area hosted the 2011 U.S. Senior Open, a major championship on the Champions Tour.

Schedule and results

• The number in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number wins in official money individual events on the LPGA Tour, including that event.
• The "Titleholders qualifiers" column indicates the three golfers at each official event who qualify for the season-ending tournament, the CME Group Titleholders.

Date	Tournament	Location	Winner	First prize ($)	Titleholders qualifiers
Feb 20	Honda LPGA Thailand	Thailand	Yani Tseng (6)	225,000	Yani Tseng Michelle Wie Karrie Webb
Feb 27	HSBC Women's Champions	Singapore	Karrie Webb (37)	210,000	Sun Young Yoo Morgan Pressel Na Yeon Choi
Mar 20	RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup	Arizona	Karrie Webb (38)	200,000 donation	Brittany Lincicome Paula Creamer Cristie Kerr
Mar 27	Kia Classic	California	Sandra Gal (1)	255,000	Sandra Gal Jiyai Shin I.K. Kim
Apr 3	Kraft Nabisco Championship	California	Stacy Lewis (1)	300,000	Stacy Lewis Katie Futcher Angela Stanford
Apr 24	Tres Marias Championship	Mexico	Tournament canceled [5]
May 1	Avnet LPGA Classic	Alabama	Maria Hjorth (5)	195,000	Maria Hjorth Song-Hee Kim Suzann Pettersen
May 22	Sybase Match Play Championship	New Jersey	Suzann Pettersen (7)	375,000	Sophie Gustafson Ai Miyazato Julieta Granada
May 29	HSBC Brazil Cup[n 1]	Brazil	Mariajo Uribe (n/a)	108,000	n/a
Jun 35	ShopRite LPGA Classic	New Jersey	Brittany Lincicome (4)	225,000	Catriona Matthew Anna Nordqvist Brittany Lang
Jun 12	LPGA State Farm Classic	Illinois	Yani Tseng (7)	255,000	Se Ri Pak Mindy Kim Wendy Ward
Jun 26	Wegmans LPGA Championship	New York	Yani Tseng (8)	375,000	Meena Lee Mika Miyazato Azahara Muñoz
Jul 11	U.S. Women's Open	Colorado	So Yeon Ryu (1)1	585,000	So Yeon Ryu Hee Kyung Seo Inbee Park
Jul 24	Evian Masters	France	Ai Miyazato (7)	487,500	Caroline Hedwall Amy Yang Paige Mackenzie
Jul 31	Ricoh Women's British Open	Scotland	Yani Tseng (9)	392,133	Candie Kung Dewi Claire Schreefel Karen Stupples
Aug 21	Safeway Classic	Oregon	Suzann Pettersen (8)	225,000	Hee Young Park Vicky Hurst Ryann O'Toole
Aug 28	CN Canadian Women's Open	Quebec	Brittany Lincicome (5)	337,500	Hee-Won Han Jenny Shin Jennifer Johnson
Sep 11	Walmart NW Arkansas Championship	Arkansas	Yani Tseng (10)	300,000	Amy Hung Belén Mozo Mi-Hyun Kim
Sep 18	Navistar LPGA Classic	Alabama	Lexi Thompson (1)	195,000	Lexi Thompson Tiffany Joh Giulia Sergas
Sep 25	Solheim Cup	Ireland	Europe	n/a
Oct 9	LPGA Hana Bank Championship	South Korea	Yani Tseng (11)	270,000	Jimin Kang Chella Choi Shanshan Feng
Oct 16	Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia	Malaysia	Na Yeon Choi (5)	285,000	Christel Boeljon Amanda Blumenherst Mina Harigae
Oct 23	Sunrise LPGA Taiwan Championship	TAiwan	Yani Tseng (12)	300,000	Pat Hurst Alison Walshe Grace Park
Nov 6	Mizuno Classic	Japan	Momoko Ueda (2)	180,000	Momoko Ueda Christina Kim Pornanong Phatlum
Nov 8	Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge	Nevada	Champions Tour	n/a
Nov 13	Lorena Ochoa Invitational	Mexico	Catriona Matthew (4)	200,000	Juli Inkster Natalie Gulbis Beatriz Recari
Nov 20	CME Group Titleholders	Florida	Hee Young Park (1)	500,000	n/a

Tournaments in bold are majors.
¹Ryu was not an LPGA member at the time of her win and her win was not counted as an official LPGA win.

Season leaders

Money list leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Earnings ($)	Events played
1	Yani Tseng	Taiwan	2,921,713	22
2	Cristie Kerr	United States	1,470,979	22
3	Na Yeon Choi	South Korea	1,357,382	21
4	Stacy Lewis	United States	1,356,211	23
5	Suzann Pettersen	Norway	1,322,770	20
6	Brittany Lincicome	United States	1,154,234	21
7	Angela Stanford	United States	1,017,196	21
8	Ai Miyazato	Japan	1,007,633	19
9	Paula Creamer	United States	926,338	21
10	Amy Yang	South Korea	912,160	22

Full 2011 Official Money List - navigate to "Official Money List"

Scoring average leaders

Rank	Player	Country	Average
1	Yani Tseng	Taiwan	69.66
2	Na Yeon Choi	South Korea	70.53
3	Cristie Kerr	United States	70.71
4	Jiyai Shin	South Korea	70.81
5	Paula Creamer	United States	70.84

Full 2011 Scoring Average List - navigate to "Scoring Average"