WPGA Championship of Europe

WPGA Championship of Europe
Tournament information
LocationFrance (1979)
Scotland (1996–1999)
Wales (2001–2010)
Established1979
Tour(s)Ladies European Tour
Format72-hole Stroke play
Final year2010
Tournament record score
Aggregate274 Linda Wessberg, Kirsty Taylor
To par−16 Helen Alfredsson
Final champion
South Africa Lee-Anne Pace

The WPGA Championship of Europe was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour.

The tournament was first played in 1979 in France, the first WPGA event held outside the United Kingdom.[1] It was revived 1996 at Gleneagles in Scotland, titled the McDonald's WPGA Championship, and was the first event on the tour to be played solely for charity.[2] Following the withdrawal of McDonald's as sponsors after just four years, there was a one-year break before the tournament returned to the tour in 2001 with a new home in Wales. It was last played in 2010.

  1. ^ "Weekend results | Golf". The Guardian. 1 October 1979. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Women's tour welcomes new events". The Independent. 7 December 1995. Retrieved 10 March 2010.