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PING/Welch's Championship
The PING/Welch's Championship was an annual golf tournament for professional female golfers on the LPGA Tour. Founded in 1980 as the Boston Five Classic, it took place every year in the Boston, Massachusetts area from 1980 through 1997. It was played at the Ferncroft Country Club in Danvers from 1980 to 1990 and at the Blue Hill Country Club in Canton from 1991 to 1997.
The tournament has had a variety of sponsors during its history. Its last title sponsors were Ping, a brand of golf equipment and Welch's, a North American producer of fruit juices.
Tournament names through the years:
- 1980-1990: Boston Five Classic
- 1991: LPGA Bay State Classic
- 1992: Welch's Classic
- 1993-1996: PING/Welch's Championship
- 1997: Welch's Championship
Winners
| Year | Champion | Country | Score | Tournament Location |
Purse | Winner's Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Liselotte Neumann | 23x15px Sweden | 276 (-12) | Blue Hill Country Club | $550,000 | $82,500 |
| 1996 | Emilee Klein | 23x15px United States | 277 (-15) | Blue Hill Country Club | $500,000 | $75,000 |
| 1995 | Beth Daniel | 23x15px United States | 271 (-17) | Blue Hill Country Club | $450,000 | $67,500 |
| 1994 | Helen Alfredsson | 23x15px Sweden | 274 (-14) | Blue Hill Country Club | $450,000 | $67,500 |
| 1993 | Missie Berteotti | 23x15px United States | 276 (-12) | Blue Hill Country Club | $450,000 | $67,500 |
| 1992 | Dottie Pepper | 23x15px United States | 278 (-10) | Blue Hill Country Club | $425,000 | $63,750 |
| 1991 | Juli Inkster | 23x15px United States | 275 (-13) | Blue Hill Country Club | $400,000 | $60,000 |
| 1990 | Barb Mucha | 23x15px United States | 277 (-11) | Ferncroft Country Club | $350,000 | $52,500 |
| 1989 | Amy Alcott | 23x15px United States | 272 (-16) | Ferncroft Country Club | $350,000 | $52,500 |
| 1988 | Colleen Walker | 23x15px United States | 274 (-14) | Ferncroft Country Club | $300,000 | $45,000 |
| 1987 | Jane Geddes | 23x15px United States | 277 (-11) | Ferncroft Country Club | $300,000 | $45,000 |
| 1986 | Jane Geddes | 23x15px United States | 281 (-17) | Ferncroft Country Club | $275,000 | $41,250 |
| 1985 | Judy Clark | 23x15px United States | 280 (-8) | Ferncroft Country Club | $225,000 | $33,750 |
| 1984 | Laurie Rinker | 23x15px United States | 286 (-2) | Ferncroft Country Club | $225,000 | $33,750 |
| 1983 | Patti Rizzo | 23x15px United States | 277 (-11) | Ferncroft Country Club | $175,000 | $26,250 |
| 1982 | Sandra Palmer | 23x15px United States | 281 (-7) | Ferncroft Country Club | $175,000 | $26,250 |
| 1981 | Donna Caponi | 23x15px United States | 276 (-12) | Ferncroft Country Club | $150,000 | $22,500 |
| 1980 | Dale Lundquist | 23x15px United States | 276 (-12) | Ferncroft Country Club | $150,000 | $22,500 |
