Tippecanoe Open
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The Tippecanoe Open was a golf
tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1959 to 1961. It was played at the Tippecanoe Lake Country Club in Leesburg, Indiana
. It was an unofficial event in 1959 and 1960.
Leesburg Pro-Am
Hoosier Celebrity
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 1959 to 1961. It was played at the Tippecanoe Lake Country Club in Leesburg, Indiana
Leesburg, Indiana
Leesburg is a town in Plain Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States. The population was 555 at the 2010 census. The town of Leesburg was incorporated in 1833.-Geography:Leesburg is located at ....
. It was an unofficial event in 1959 and 1960.
Winners
Tippecanoe Open- 1961 Kathy CorneliusKathy CorneliusKathy Cornelius is an American golfer.Cornelius was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Florida Southern College, where she played on the men's golf team, as the school did not have a women's team at the time. She turned pro in 1953 and married golf pro Bill Cornelius the same year...
Leesburg Pro-Am
- 1960 Barbara RomackBarbara RomackBarbara Gaile Romack is an American professional golfer.Romack was born in Sacramento, California. She won the North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst in 1952, the Canadian Women's Amateur in 1953, and then in 1954, she defeated Mickey Wright in the finals to win the U.S. Women's Amateur...
Hoosier Celebrity
- 1959 Mickey WrightMickey WrightMary Kathryn "Mickey" Wright is an American professional golfer. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.-Early life:...