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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

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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

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Year Player Score Round Course
2002 Carin Koch 64 (−10) 1st round Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Magnolia Grove, par 72
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