The Phoenix Thunderbirds Open was a golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1962 to 1965. It was played at two different courses in the Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

 area: Paradise Valley Country Club in 1962, Arizona Biltmore Country Club in 1963 to 1965.

Winners

Phoenix Thunderbirds Open

• 1965 Marlene Hagge
  Marlene Hagge
  Marlene Hagge , also known as Marlene Bauer before her marriage, is an American professional golfer. She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002....
  
  

Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Open

• 1964 Ruth Jessen
  Ruth Jessen
  Mary Ruth Jessen was an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Jessen was born in Seattle, Washington. She briefly played on the men's golf team at Seattle University....
  
  

Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies Open

• 1963 Sandra Haynie
  Sandra Haynie
  Sandra Jane Haynie is an American professional golfer.Haynie was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She won 42 events on the LPGA Tour, including four major championships. She finished in the top ten on the money list every year from 1963 and 1975 and a 14th and final time in 1982, her best placing being...
  
  

Phoenix Thunderbird Open

• 1962 Kathy Whitworth
  Kathy Whitworth
  Kathy Whitworth is an American professional golfer. Throughout her playing career she won 88 LPGA Tour tournaments, more than anyone else has won on either the LPGA Tour or the PGA Tour. In 1981 she became the first woman to reach career earnings of $1 million on the LPGA Tour...